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

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

Chan, Wanyu R, Srinandini Parthasarathy, William J Fisk, and Thomas E McKone."Estimated effect of ventilation and filtration on chronic health risks in U.S. offices, schools, and retail stores." (2015). DOI

2014

Wei, Max, Timothy E Lipman, Ahmad Mayyas, Joshua Chien, Shuk Han Chan, David Gosselin, Hanna Breunig, Michael Stadler, Thomas E McKone, Paul Beattie, Patricia Chong, Whitney G Colella, and Brian D James."A Total Cost of Ownership Model for Low Temperature PEM Fuel Cells in Combined Heat and Power and Backup Power Applications." (2014).

Scown, Corinne D, Amit A Gokhale, Paul A Willems, Arpad Horvath, and Thomas E McKone."Role of Lignin in Reducing Life-Cycle Carbon Emissions, Water Use, and Cost for United States Cellulosic Biofuels."Environmental Science & Technology 48.15 (2014) 8446 - 8455. DOI

Breunig, Hanna, Jens T Birkholzer, Andrea Borgia, Phillip N Price, Curtis M Oldenburg, and Thomas E McKone."Assessment of Brine Management for Geologic Carbon Sequestration." (2014).

Shin, Hyeong-Moo, Thomas E McKone, Michael D Sohn, Deborah H Bennett, and Alok Deoraj."Tracking Contributions to Human Body Burden of Environmental Chemicals by Correlating Environmental Measurements with Biomarkers."PLoS ONE 9.3 (2014) e93678. DOI

Herrmann, Ivan T, Michael Z Hauschild, Michael D Sohn, and Thomas E McKone."Confronting Uncertainty in Life Cycle Assessment Used for Decision Support."Journal of Industrial Ecology 18.3 (2014) 366 - 379. DOI

2013

Scown, Corinne D, Michael Taptich, Arpad Horvath, Thomas E McKone, and William W Nazaroff."Achieving Deep Cuts in the Carbon Intensity of U.S. Automobile Transportation by 2050: Complementary Roles for Electricity and Biofuels."Environmental Science & Technology 47.16 (2013) 9044 - 9052. DOI

Breunig, Hanna, Jens T Birkholzer, Andrea Borgia, Curtis M Oldenburg, Phillip N Price, and Thomas E McKone."Regional evaluation of brine management for geologic carbon sequestration."International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 14 (2013) 39 - 48. DOI

Parthasarathy, Srinandini, William J Fisk, and Thomas E McKone."Effect Of Ventilation On Chronic Health Risks In Schools And Offices." (2013).

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

Parthasarathy, Srinandini, Wanyu R Chan, William J Fisk, and Thomas E McKone."Modeling indoor exposures to VOCs and SVOCs as ventilation rates vary."Healthy Buildings 2012 - 10th International Conference (2012).

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).

Morrow III, William R, 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

Logue, Jennifer M, Thomas E McKone, Max H Sherman, and Brett C Singer."Hazard Assessment of Chemical Air Contaminants Measured in Residences."Indoor Air 21.2 (2011) 92-109. DOI

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

Parthasarathy, Srinandini, Thomas E McKone, and Michael G Apte."Ventilation Relevant Contaminants of Concern in Commercial Buildings Screening Process and Results." (2011).

2010

Castorina, Rosemary, Asa Bradman, Laura Fenster, Dana B Barr, Roberto Bravo, Michelle G Vedar, Martha E Harnly, Thomas E McKone, Ellen A Eisen, and Brenda Eskenazi."Comparison of Current-Use Pesticide and Other Toxicant Urinary Metabolite Levels among Pregnant Women in the CHAMACOS Cohort and NHANES."Environmental Health Perspectives 118.6 (2010) 856-863. DOI

2009

Cowan-Ellsberry, Christina E, Michael S McLachlan, Jon A Arnot, Matthew Macleod, Thomas E McKone, and Frank Wania."Modeling Exposure to Persistent Chemicals in Hazard and Risk Assessment."Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (IEAM) 5.4 (2009) 662-679. DOI

Demou, Evangelia, Stefanie Hellweg, Michael P Wilson, S. S Katharine Hammond, and Thomas E McKone."Evaluating indoor exposure modeling alternatives for LCA: A case study in the vehicle repair industry."Environmental Science and Technology 43.15 (2009) 5804-5810.

Veltman, Karin, Thomas E McKone, Mark Huijbregts, and A. A Jan Hendricks."Bioaccumulation Potential Of Air Contaminants: Combining Biological Allometry, Chemical Equilibrium And Mass-Balances To Predict Accumulation Of Air Pollutants In Various Mammals."Journal of Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 238.1 (2009) 47-55. 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

Rosenbaum, Ralph K, Thomas E McKone, and Olivier Jolliet."CKow – A More Transparent and Reliable Model for Chemical Transfer to Meat and Milk."Environmental Science and Technology 43 (2009) 8191–8198.