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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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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.

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2017

Breunig, Hanna, Ling Jin, Alastair Robinson, and Corinne D Scown."Bioenergy Potential from Food Waste in California."Environmental Science & Technology (2017). DOI

2016

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Dev Millstein, Sarah Cates, Nicholas DiSanti, and Rebecca Widiss."Tracking the Sun IX: The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States." (2016).

Liszka, Michael J, Aram Kang, NVSN M Konda, Kim Tran, John M Gladden, Seema Singh, Jay D Keasling, Corinne D Scown, Taek Soon Lee, Blake A Simmons, and Kenneth L Sale."Switchable ionic liquids based on di-carboxylic acids for one-pot conversion of biomass to an advanced biofuel." 18 (2016) 4012-4021. DOI

Sun, Jian, NVSN M Konda, Jian Shi, Ramakrishnan Parthasarathi, Tanmoy Dutta, Feng Xu, Corinne D Scown, Blake A Simmons, and Seema Singh."CO₂ enabled process integration for the production of cellulosic ethanol using bionic liquids."Energy & Environmental Science 9 (2016) 2822-2834. DOI

2015

McManus, Marcell C, Caroline M Taylor, Alison Mohr, Carly Whittaker, Corinne D Scown, Aiduan Li Borrion, Neryssa J Glithero, and Yao Yin."Challenge clusters facing LCA in environmental decision-making—what we can learn from biofuels."The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (2015) 1399-1414.

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Dev Millstein, Michael Spears, Ryan H Wiser, Michael Buckley, Rebecca Widiss, and Nick Grue."Tracking the Sun VIII: The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States." (2015).

Balakrishnan, Madhesan, Eric R Sacia, Sanil Sreekumar, Gorkam Gunbas, Amit A Gokhale, Corinne D Scown, F. F Dean Toste, and Alexis T Bell."Novel pathways for fuels and lubricants from biomass optimized using life-cycle greenhouse gas assessment."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2015) 201508274. DOI

Phadke, Amol A, Arne Jacobson, Won Young Park, Ga Rick Lee, Peter Alstone, and Amit Khare."Powering a Home with Just 25Watts of Solar PV: Super-Efficient Appliances Can Enable Expanded Off-Grid Energy Service Using Small Solar Power Systems." (2015).

2014

Barbose, Galen L, Samantha Weaver, and Naïm R Darghouth."Tracking the Sun VII: An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998-2013." (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

Bolinger, Mark."An Analysis of the Costs, Benefits, and Implications of Different Approaches to Capturing the Value of Renewable Energy Tax Incentives." (2014).

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).

2013

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Samantha Weaver, and Ryan H Wiser."Tracking the Sun VI: An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998 to 2012." (2013).

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

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Ashwin Gambhir."Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy Mini-grids for Energy Access: A Framework for Policy Design." (2013).

2012

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, and Ryan H Wiser."Tracking the Sun V An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998 to 2011." (2012).

2011

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Ryan H Wiser, and Joachim Seel."Tracking the Sun IV An Historical Summary of the Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998 to 2010." (2011) 61.

2010

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, and Ryan H Wiser."Tracking the Sun III The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2009." (2010) 54.

2009

Wiser, Ryan H, Galen L Barbose, Carla Peterman, and Naïm R Darghouth."Tracking the Sun II The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2008." (2009) 150.

Wiser, Ryan H, Galen L Barbose, and Carla Peterman."Tracking the Sun: The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2007." (2009) 42.