Research Themes +
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.
Strategic Initiatives +
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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About Us +
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.

Publications

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2023

Eudes, Aymerick, Chien-Yuan Lin, Christopher M De Ben, Jasmine Ortega, Mi Yeon Lee, Yi-Chun Chen, Guotian Li, Daniel Putnam, Jenny C Mortimer, Pamela C Ronald, Corinne D Scown, and Henrik V Scheller."Field performance of switchgrass plants engineered for reduced recalcitrance."Frontiers in Plant Science 14 (2023). DOI

2022

Lin, Chien-Yuan, Yang Tian, Kimberly Nelson-Vasilchik, Joel Hague, Ramu Kakumanu, Mi Yeon Lee, Venkataramana R Pidatala, Jessica Trinh, Christopher M De Ben, Jutta Dalton, Trent R Northen, Edward E.K Baidoo, Blake A Simmons, John M Gladden, Corinne D Scown, Daniel Putnam, Albert P Kausch, Henrik V Scheller, and Aymerick Eudes."Engineering sorghum for higher 4-hydroxybenzoic acid content."Metabolic Engineering Communications 15 (2022) e00207. DOI

Tian, Yang, Minliang Yang, Chien-Yuan Lin, Joon-Hyun Park, Chuan-Yin Wu, Ramu Kakumanu, Christopher M De Ben, Jutta Dalton, Khanh M Vuu, Patrick M Shih, Edward E.K Baidoo, Stephen Temple, Daniel Putnam, Henrik V Scheller, Corinne D Scown, and Aymerick Eudes."Expression of Dehydroshikimate Dehydratase in Sorghum Improves Biomass Yield, Accumulation of Protocatechuate, and Biorefinery Economics."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 10.38 (2022) 12520 - 12528. DOI

2021

Banerjee, Deepanwita, Thomas Eng, Yusuke Sasaki, Aparajitha Srinivasan, Asun M Oka, Robin A Herbert, Jessica Trinh, Vasanth R Singan, Ning Sun, Daniel Putnam, Corinne D Scown, Blake A Simmons, and Aindrila Mukhopadhyay."Genomics Characterization of an Engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum in Bioreactor Cultivation Under Ionic Liquid Stress."Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 9 (2021). DOI

Yang, Minliang, Jeff Dahlberg, Nawa Raj Baral, Daniel Putnam, and Corinne D Scown."Identifying Forage Sorghum Ideotypes for Advanced Biorefineries."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 9.23 (2021) 7873 - 7881. DOI

Magurudeniya, Harsha, Nawa Raj Baral, Alberto Rodriguez, Corinne D Scown, Jeff Dahlberg, Daniel Putnam, Anthe George, Blake A Simmons, and John M Gladden."Use of ensiled biomass sorghum increases ionic liquid pretreatment efficiency and reduces biofuel production cost and carbon footprint."Green Chemistry (2021). DOI

2020

Baral, Nawa Raj, Jeff Dahlberg, Daniel Putnam, Jenny C Mortimer, and Corinne D Scown."Supply Cost and Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Footprint of Dry and Ensiled Biomass Sorghum for Biofuel Production."ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. (2020).