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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 climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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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 battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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2013

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, Jing Ke, Ali Hasanbeigi, William R. Morrow III, Lynn K. Price, and Nina Khanna."China Energy and Emissions Path to 2030." (2013).

Zhai, Pei, Sophia Haussener, Joel W. Ager III, Roger Sathre, Karl Walczak, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, and Thomas E. McKone."Net primary energy balance of a solar-driven photo-electrochemical water-splitting device."Energy and Environmental Science 6.8 (2013) 2380-2389. DOI

2012

Morrow, William R. III, Tengfang T. Xu, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Jayant A. Sathaye."Assessment of Energy Efficiency Improvement and CO₂ Emission Reduction Potentials in India's Cement Industry." (2012).

Shehabi, Arman, William R. Morrow III, and Eric R. Masanet."United States Industrial Sector Energy End Use Analysis." (2012).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, William R. Morrow III, Jayant A. Sathaye, Eric R. Masanet, and Tengfang T. Xu."Assessment of Energy Efficiency Improvement and CO₂ Emission Reduction Potentials in the Iron and Steel Industry in China." (2012).

Shehabi, Arman, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, and Arpad Horvath."Energy and Air Emission Implications of a Decentralized Wastewater System."Environmental Research Letters 7.2 (2012). DOI

Scown, Corinne D., William W. Nazaroff, Umakant Mishra, Bret Strogen, Agnes B. Lobscheid, Eric R. Masanet, Nicholas J Santero, Arpad Horvath, and Thomas E. McKone."Lifecycle greenhouse gas implications of US national scenarios for cellulosic ethanol production."Environmental Research Letters 7.1 (2012) 014011. DOI

Sathre, Roger, Hanna Breunig, Peter H. Larsen, Eric R. Masanet, Thomas E. McKone, Nigel Quinn, and Corinne D. Scown."Spatially-explicit impacts of carbon capture and sequestration on water supply and demand."Eleventh Annual Carbon Capture, Utilization & Sequestration Conference (2012).

Williams, James H., Andrew DeBenedictis, Rebecca Ghanadan, Amber Mahone, Jack Moore, William R. Morrow III, Snuller Price, and Margaret S. Torn."The Technology Path to Deep Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cuts by 2050: The Pivotal Role of Electricity."Science 335.6064 (2012) 53-59. DOI

Morrow, William R. III, Anand R. Gopal, Gary A. Fitts, Sarah M. Lewis, Larry L. Dale, Eric R. Masanet, and Thomas E. McKone."Drought-tolerant Biofuel Crops could be a Critical Hedge for Biorefineries." (2012).

2011

Scown, Corinne D., Arpad Horvath, and Thomas E. McKone."Water Footprint of U.S. Transportation Fuels."Environmental Science & Technology 45.7 (2011) 2541 - 2553. DOI

McKone, Thomas E., William W. Nazaroff, Peter Berck, Maximilian Auffhammer, Timothy E. Lipman, Margaret S. Torn, Eric R. Masanet, Agnes B. Lobscheid, Nicholas J Santero, Umakant Mishra, Audrey Barrett, Matt Bomberg, Kevin Fingerman, Corinne D. Scown, Bret Strogen, and Arpad Horvath."Grand Challenges for Life-Cycle Assessment of Biofuels."Environmental Science & Technology 45.5 (2011) 1751 - 1756. DOI

2009

Shih, Chung Yan, Corinne D. Scown, Lucio Soibelman, H. Scott Matthews, James H. Garrett, Keith Dodrill, and Sandra McSurdy."Data Management for Geospatial Vulnerability Assessment of Interdependencies in U.S. Power Generation."Journal of Infrastructure Systems 15.3 (2009) 179-189. DOI

Chen, Ping, Corinne D. Scown, H. Scott Matthews, James H. Garrett, and Chris Hendrickson."Managing Critical Infrastructure Interdependence through Economic Input-Output Methods."Journal of Infrastructure Systems 15.3 (2009) 200-210. DOI

Hellweg, Stefanie, Evangelia Demou, Raffaella Bruzzi, Arjen Meijer, Ralph K. Rosenbaum, Mark Huijbregts, and Thomas E. McKone."Integrating Human Indoor Air Pollutant Exposure within Life Cycle Impact Assessment."Environmental Science and Technology 43.6 (2009) 1670-1679. DOI

Al-Beaini, Sara, Sam Borgeson, Brian E. Coffey, David Gregory, Kyle S. Konis, Corinne D. Scown, Jelena Simjanovic, John Stanley, Bret Strogen, and Iain S. Walker."Feasibility of Achieving a Zero-Net-Energy, Zero-Net-Cost Homes." (2009).

2008

Holmes, K. John, Judith A. Graham, Thomas E. McKone, and Chris Whipple."Regulatory Models and the Environment Practice, Pitfalls, and Prospects."Risk Analysis 29.2 (2008) 159-170. DOI

Rosenbaum, Ralph K., Till M. Bachman, Lois S. Gold, Mark Huijbregts, Olivier Jolliet, Ronnie Juraske, Annette Koehler, Henrik F. Larsen, Matthew Macleod, Manuele D. Margni, Thomas E. McKone, Jérôme Payet, Marta Schuhmacher, Dik van de Meent, and Michael Z. Hauschild."USEtox - The UNEP-SETAC toxicity model: recommended characterisation factors for human toxicity and freshwater ecotoxicity in Life Cycle Impact Assessment."The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 13.7 (2008) 532-546. DOI

Schenker, Urs, Martin Scheringer, Michael D. Sohn, Randy L. Maddalena, Thomas E. McKone, and Konrad Hungerbühler."Using Information on Uncertainty to Improve Environmental Fate Modeling: A Case Study on DDT."Environmental Science and Technology 43.1 (2008) 128-134.

Hauschild, Michael Z., Till M. Bachman, Mark Huijbregts, Olivier Jolliet, Annette Kohler, Henrik F. Larsen, Manuele D. Margni, Thomas E. McKone, Matthew Macleod, Dik van de Meent, Marta Schuhmacher, and Ralph K. Rosenbaum."International consensus model for comparative assessment of chemical emissions in LCA."International Academy for Production Engineering 15th International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, March 17-19, 2008 (2008) 291-296.

Morrow, William R. III, and Peter Balash."Biomass Allocation Model – Comparing Alternative Uses of Scarce Biomass Energy Resource Through Estimations of Future Biomass Use for Liquid Fuels and Electricity." (2008).

Hauschild, Michael Z., Mark Huijbregts, Olivier Jolliet, Matthew Macleod, Manuele D. Margni, Dik van de Meent, Ralph K. Rosenbaum, and Thomas E. McKone."Building a model based on scientific consensus for Life Cycle Impact Assessment of Chemicals: the Search for Harmony and Parsimony."Environmental Science and Technology 42 (2008) 7032-7037.

Price, Phillip N., Thomas E. McKone, and Michael D. Sohn."Carbon Sequestration Risks and Risk Management." (2008).

Wiberg, Karin, Annika Aberg, Thomas E. McKone, Mats Tysklind, Annika Hanberg, and Matthew Macleod."Model selection and evaluation for risk assessment of dioxin contaminated sites."Ambio 36 (2008) 458-466.

Morrow, William R. III, W. Michael Griffin, and H. Scott Matthews."National-level infrastructure and economic effects of switchgrass co-firing with coal in existing power-plants for carbon mitigation. Environmental Science and Technology."Environmental Science & Technology 42.10 (2008) 3501-3507. DOI