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)

2016

Rivero, Ana Jimenez, Roger Sathre, and Justo Garcia Navarro."Life cycle energy and material flow implications of gypsum plasterboard recycling in the European Union."Resources, Conservation and Recycling 108 (2016). DOI

Sathre, Roger, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Karl Walczak, Ian D Sharp, John C Stevens, Joel W Ager, and Frances A Houle."Opportunities to improve the net energy performance of photoelectrochemical water-splitting technology."Energy & Environmental Science (2016). DOI

Sathre, Roger, Hanna Breunig, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Peter H Larsen, Eric R Masanet, Thomas E McKone, Nigel Quinn, and Corinne D Scown."Spatially-explicit water balance implications of carbon capture and sequestration."Environmental Modelling & Software 75 (2016) 153 - 162. DOI

2015

Sathre, Roger, Corinne D Scown, Olga Kavvada, and Thomas P Hendrickson."Energy and climate effects of second-life use of electric vehicle batteries in California through 2050."Journal of Power Sources 288 (2015) 82 - 91. DOI

Qi, Wei, Roger Sathre, William R Morrow III, and Arman Shehabi."Unit price scaling trends for chemical products." (2015).

Hendrickson, Thomas P, Olga Kavvada, Nihar Shah, Roger Sathre, and Corinne D Scown."Life-cycle implications and supply chain logistics of electric vehicle battery recycling in California."Environmental Research Letters 10.1 (2015). DOI

2014

Sathre, Roger, Corinne D Scown, William R Morrow III, John C Stevens, Ian D Sharp, Joel W Ager, Karl Walczak, Frances A Houle, and Jeffery B Greenblatt."Life-cycle net energy assessment of large-scale hydrogen production via photoelectrochemical water splitting."Energy Environ. Sci. 7.10 (2014) 3264 - 3278. DOI

Lundmark, Tomas, Johan Bergh, Peter Hofer, Anders Lundström, Annika Nordin, Bishnu Poudel, Roger Sathre, Ruedi Taverna, and Frank Werner."Potential Roles of Swedish Forestry in the Context of Climate Change Mitigation."Forests 5.4 (2014) 557 - 578. DOI

Sathre, Roger."Comparing the heat of combustion of fossil fuels to the heat accumulated by their lifecycle greenhouse gases."Fuel 115 (2014) 674 - 677. DOI

2013

Masanet, Eric R, Yuan Chang, Anand R Gopal, Peter H Larsen, William R Morrow III, Roger Sathre, Arman Shehabi, and Pei Zhai."Life-Cycle Assessment of Electric Power Systems."Annual Review of Environment and Resources 38 (2013) 107-136. DOI

Sathre, Roger, and Eric R Masanet."Prospective life-cycle modeling of a carbon capture and storage system using metal–organic frameworks for CO₂ capture."RSC Advances 3.15 (2013) 4964. DOI

Zhai, Pei, Sophia Haussener, Joel W Ager, 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

Sathre, Roger, and Eric R Masanet."Long-Term Energy and Climate Implications of Carbon Capture and Storage Deployment Strategies in the US Coal-Fired Electricity Fleet."Environmental Science & Technology 46.17 (2012) 9768 - 9776. DOI

Sathre, Roger, Ambrose Dodoo, Leif Gustavsson, Bruce Lippke, Gregg Marland, Eric R Masanet, Birger Solberg, and Frank Werner."Material Nature Versus Structural Nurture: The Embodied Carbon of Fundamental Structural Elements."Environmental Science & Technology (2012).

Sathre, Roger, Mikhail Chester, Jennifer Cain, and Eric R Masanet."A framework for environmental assessment of CO₂ capture and storage systems."Energy 37.1 (2012). 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).