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)

2022

Baral, Nawa Raj, Shruti K Mishra, Anthe George, Sagar Gautam, Umakant Mishra, and Corinne D Scown."Multifunctional landscapes for dedicated bioenergy crops lead to low-carbon market-competitive biofuels."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 169 (2022) 112857. DOI

Gautam, Sagar, Umakant Mishra, Corinne D Scown, Skye A Wills, Kabindra Adhikari, Beth A Drewniak, and Bonnie G Waring."Continental United States may lose 1.8 petagrams of soil organic carbon under climate change by 2100."Global Ecology and Biogeography 31.6 (2022) 1147 - 1160. DOI

2021

Mishra, Shruti K, Sagar Gautam, Umakant Mishra, and Corinne D Scown."Performance-Based Payments for Soil Carbon Sequestration Can Enable a Low-Carbon BioeconomyPerformance-Based Payments for Soil Carbon Sequestration Can Enable a Low-Carbon Bioeconomy."Environmental Science & Technology (2021). DOI

2020

Gautam, Sagar, Umakant Mishra, Corinne D Scown, and Yao Zhang."Sorghum biomass production in the continental United States and its potential impacts on soil organic carbon and nitrous oxide emissions."GCB Bioenergy 12.10 (2020) 878 - 890. DOI

Huntington, Tyler, Xinguang Cui, Umakant Mishra, and Corinne D Scown."Machine learning to predict biomass sorghum yields under future climate scenarios."Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining 14.3 (2020) 566 - 577. DOI

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

2011

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