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

Wang, Yan, Nawa Raj Baral, Minliang Yang, and Corinne D Scown."Co-Processing Agricultural Residues and Wet Organic Waste Can Produce Lower-Cost Carbon-Negative Fuels and Bioplastics."Environmental Science & Technology (2023). DOI

Huntington, Tyler, Nawa Raj Baral, Minliang Yang, Eric R Sundstrom, and Corinne D Scown."Machine learning for surrogate process models of bioproduction pathways."Bioresource Technology 370 (2023) 128528. DOI

2022

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

Achinivu, Ezinne C, Mica Cabrera, Athiyya Umar, Minliang Yang, Nawa Raj Baral, Corinne D Scown, Blake A Simmons, and John M Gladden."In Situ Synthesis of Protic Ionic Liquids for Biomass Pretreatment."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 10.37 (2022) 12090 - 12098. DOI

Yang, Minliang, Di Liu, Nawa Raj Baral, Chien-Yuan Lin, Blake A Simmons, John M Gladden, Aymerick Eudes, and Corinne D Scown."Comparing planta accumulation with microbial routes to set targets for a cost-competitive bioeconomy."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.30 (2022). DOI

2021

Baral, Nawa Raj, Minliang Yang, Benjamin G Harvey, Blake A Simmons, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Taek Soon Lee, and Corinne D Scown."Production Cost and Carbon Footprint of Biomass-Derived Dimethylcyclooctane as a High-Performance Jet Fuel Blendstock."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 9.35 (2021) 11872–11882. 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

Scown, Corinne D, Nawa Raj Baral, Minliang Yang, Nemi Vora, and Tyler Huntington."Technoeconomic analysis for biofuels and bioproducts."Current Opinion in Biotechnology 67 (2021) 58-64.

2020

Yang, Minliang, Nawa Raj Baral, Aikaterini Anastasopoulou, Hanna Breunig, and Corinne D Scown."Cost and Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Implications of Integrating Biogas and Upgrading Carbon Capture Technologies in Cellulosic Biorefineries."Environmental Science & Technology 54.20 (2020) 12810 - 12819. DOI

Yang, Minliang, Nawa Raj Baral, Aikaterini Anastasopoulou, Hanna Breunig, and Corinne D Scown."Cost and Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Implications of Integrating Biogas Upgrading and Carbon Capture Technologies in Cellulosic Biorefineries."Environmental Science & Technology 54.20 (2020) 12810 - 12819. DOI

Yang, Minliang, Nawa Raj Baral, Blake A Simmons, Jenny C Mortimer, Patrick M Shih, and Corinne D Scown."Accumulation of high-value bioproducts in planta can improve the economics of advanced biofuels."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.15 (2020) 8639 - 8648. DOI