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Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing scientific challenges across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-integrated building systems; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and increasing reliability are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by techno-economic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Energy Markets & Planning

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis

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Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2026

Hanes, Rebecca J, Keju An, Wilson H McNeil, Yijin Li, Isaias Marroquin, Soomin Chun, Sarah L Nordahl, Kimberley K Mayfield, Sarah E Baker, Corinne D Scown, and Evan D Sherwin."Energy Emissions Accounting Methods Can Determine Whether Direct Air Capture with Storage Achieves Net Removal."Environmental Science & Technology 60.14 (2026) 10739-10750. DOI

2025

McNeil, Wilson H, Jason Porzio, Fan Tong, Robert A Harley, Maximilian Auffhammer, and Corinne D Scown."Impact of truck electrification on air pollution disparities in the United States."Nat Sustain (2025). DOI

Nordahl, Sarah L, Melissa Moore, Nawa Raj Baral, Wilson H McNeil, Yan Wang, and Corinne D Scown."Life-Cycle Emissions and Human Health Implications of Multi-Input, Multi-Output Biorefineries."Environmental Science & Technology 59.35 (2025) 18562-18572. DOI

2024

McNeil, Wilson H, Fan Tong, Robert A Harley, Maximilian Auffhammer, and Corinne D Scown."Corridor-Level Impacts of Battery-Electric Heavy-Duty Trucks and the Effects of Policy in the United States."Environmental Science & Technology 58.1 (2024) 33 - 42. DOI

McNeil, Wilson H, Fan Tong, Robert A Harley, Maximilian Auffhammer, and Corinne D Scown."Evaluating the Effect of U.S. Energy Policy and Heavy-Duty Truck Electrification on PM2.5 Concentrations and Associated Health Impacts in Disadvantaged Communities."104th AMS Annual Meeting (2024).

Harrison, Brendan P, Wilson H McNeil, Tao Dai, J Elliott Campbell, and Corinne D Scown."Site Suitability and Air Pollution Impacts of Composting Infrastructure for California’s Organic Waste Diversion Law."Environmental Science & Technology 58.45 (2024) 19913-19924. DOI