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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.
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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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2024

Nordahl, Sarah L, Rebecca J Hanes, Kimberley K Mayfield, Corey Myers, Sarah E Baker, and Corinne D Scown."Carbon accounting for carbon dioxide removal."One Earth 7.9 (2024) 1494-1500. DOI

Breunig, Hanna, Patricia Fox, Jeremy Domen, R Kumar, Ricardo Jorge Eloy Alves, Kateryna Zhalnina, Anne Voigtländer, Hang Deng, Bhavna Arora, and Peter Nico."Life cycle impact and cost analysis of quarry materials for land-based enhanced weathering in Northern California."Journal of Cleaner Production (2024) 143757. DOI

Dun, Chaochao, Xinyi Wang, Linfeng Chen, Sichi Li, Hanna Breunig, and Jeffrey J Urban."Nano-enhanced solid-state hydrogen storage: Balancing discovery and pragmatism for future energy solutions."Nano Research (2024). DOI

Rosner, Fabian, Boxun Hu, Michael C Tucker, and Hanna Breunig."Prospects of hydrogen cogeneration and carbon dioxide utilization in electrochemical refineries for ethylene production via oxidative coupling of methane: A techno-economic assessment." (2024).

Peng, Peng, Henry Z.H Jiang, Stephanie Collins, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Jeffrey R Long, and Hanna Breunig."Long Duration Energy Storage Using Hydrogen in Metal–Organic Frameworks: Opportunities and Challenges."ACS Energy Letters (2024) 2727 - 2735. DOI

McNeil, Wilson H, Fan Tong, Robert A Harley, Maximilian Auffhammer, and Corinne D Scown."Corridor-Level Impacts of Battery-Electric Heavy-Duty Trucks and the Effects of Policy in the United States."Environmental Science & Technology 58.1 (2024) 33 - 42. DOI

2023

Peng, Peng, Ji Su, and Hanna Breunig."Benchmarking plasma and electrolysis decomposition technologies for ammonia to power generation."Energy Conversion and Management 288 (2023) 117166. DOI

Demarteau, Jérémy, Benjamin Cousineau, Zilong Wang, Baishakhi Bose, Seokjung Cheong, Guangxu Lan, Nawa Raj Baral, Simon J Teat, Corinne D Scown, Jay D Keasling, and Brett A Helms."Biorenewable and circular polydiketoenamine plastics."Nature Sustainability (2023). DOI

Hubble, Dion, Sarah L Nordahl, Tianyu Zhu, Nawa Raj Baral, Corinne D Scown, and Gao Liu."Solvent-Assisted Poly(lactic acid) Upcycling under Mild Conditions."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 11.22 (2023) 8208 - 8216. DOI

Deng, Hang, Eric Sonnenthal, Bhavna Arora, Hanna Breunig, Eoin Brodie, Markus Kleber, Nicolas Spycher, and Peter Nico."The environmental controls on efficiency of enhanced rock weathering in soils."Scientific Reports 13.1 (2023). DOI

Hu, Boxun, Fabian Rosner, Hanna Breunig, Asia Sarycheva, Robert Kostecki, and Michael C Tucker."Electrochemical conversion of methane to ethylene, olefins, and paraffins using metal-supported solid oxide cells."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2023). DOI

Greenblatt, Jeffery B, and Arman Shehabi."Energy estimates of non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) internet - Data network infrastructure in a connected economy." (2023).

Eudes, Aymerick, Chien-Yuan Lin, Christopher M De Ben, Jasmine Ortega, Mi Yeon Lee, Yi-Chun Chen, Guotian Li, Daniel Putnam, Jenny C Mortimer, Pamela C Ronald, Corinne D Scown, and Henrik V Scheller."Field performance of switchgrass plants engineered for reduced recalcitrance."Frontiers in Plant Science 14 (2023). DOI

Rosner, Fabian, Michael C Tucker, Boxun Hu, and Hanna Breunig."Techno-Economic Analysis of Electrochemical Refineries Using Solid Oxide Cells for Oxidative Coupling of Methane."ECS Transactions 111.6 (2023) 2049 - 2055. DOI

Breunig, Hanna, Fabian Rosner, Tae-Hwan Lim, and Peng Peng."Emerging concepts in intermediate carbon dioxide emplacement to support carbon dioxide removal."Energy & Environmental Science 16.5 (2023) 1821 - 1837. DOI

Rosner, Fabian, Alexander Schamberger, and Hanna Breunig."Techno-economic analysis of a CO2 direct air capture-cooling tower hybrid process at a geothermal facility."ChemRxiv (2023).

Rosner, Fabian, Dionissios Papadias, Kriston Brooks, Kelvin Yoro, Rajesh K Ahluwalia, Tom Autrey, and Hanna Breunig."Green steel: design and cost analysis of hydrogen-based direct iron reduction."ChemRxiv (2023).

Porzio, Jason, Derek Wolfson, Maximilian Auffhammer, and Corinne D Scown."Private and External Costs and Benefits of Replacing High-Emitting Peaker Plants with Batteries."Environmental Science & Technology 57.12 (2023) 4992 - 5002. DOI

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

Nordahl, Sarah L, Chelsea V Preble, Thomas W Kirchstetter, and Corinne D Scown."Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutant Emissions from Composting."Environmental Science & Technology 57.6 (2023) 2235 - 2247. 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

Liu, Dupeng, Nawa Raj Baral, Ling Liang, Corinne D Scown, and Ning Sun."Torrefaction of almond shell as a renewable reinforcing agent for plastics: techno-economic analyses and comparison to bioethanol process."Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability (2023). DOI

2022

Gursel, Aysegul Petek, Michael Logue, Arpad Horvath, William R Morrow III, and Arman Shehabi."Assessing Opportunities for Circularity in Buildings." (2022).

Lin, Chien-Yuan, Yang Tian, Kimberly Nelson-Vasilchik, Joel Hague, Ramu Kakumanu, Mi Yeon Lee, Venkataramana R Pidatala, Jessica Trinh, Christopher M De Ben, Jutta Dalton, Trent R Northen, Edward E.K Baidoo, Blake A Simmons, John M Gladden, Corinne D Scown, Daniel Putnam, Albert P Kausch, Henrik V Scheller, and Aymerick Eudes."Engineering sorghum for higher 4-hydroxybenzoic acid content."Metabolic Engineering Communications 15 (2022) e00207. DOI

Orner, Kevin D, Sarah Josephine Smith, Sarah L Nordahl, Alicia Chakrabarti, Hanna Breunig, Corinne D Scown, Harold Leverenz, Kara L Nelson, and Arpad Horvath."Environmental and Economic Impacts of Managing Nutrients in Digestate Derived from Sewage Sludge and High-Strength Organic Waste."Environmental Science & Technology 56.23 (2022) 17256 - 17265. DOI