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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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2021

Wang, Yan, Tyler Huntington, and Corinne D. Scown."Tree-Based Automated Machine Learning to Predict Biogas Production for Anaerobic Co-digestion of Organic Waste."ACS Sustainable Chem. 9.38 (2021) 12990–13000. DOI

Baral, Nawa Raj, Minliang Yang, Benjamin G. Harvey, Blake A. Simmons, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Taek Soon Lee, and Corinne D. Scown."Production Cost and Carbon Footprint of Biomass-Derived Dimethylcyclooctane as a High-Performance Jet Fuel Blendstock."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 9.35 (2021) 11872–11882. DOI

Tong, Fan, Derek Wolfson, Alan T. Jenn, Corinne D. Scown, and Maximilian Auffhammer."Energy consumption and charging load profiles from long-haul truck electrification in the United States."Environmental Research Infrastructure and Sustainability (2021). DOI

Tong, Fan, Alan T. Jenn, Derek Wolfson, Corinne D. Scown, and Maximilian Auffhammer."Health and Climate Impacts from Long-Haul Truck Electrification."Environmental Science & Technology 55.13 (2021) 8514 - 8523. DOI

Yang, Minliang, Jeff Dahlberg, Nawa Raj Baral, Daniel Putnam, and Corinne D. Scown."Identifying Forage Sorghum Ideotypes for Advanced Biorefineries."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 9.23 (2021) 7873 - 7881. DOI

Smith, Sarah Josephine, Andrew Satchwell, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, and Corinne D. Scown."The implications of facility design and enabling policies on the economics of dry anaerobic digestion."Waste Management 128 (2021) 122 - 131. DOI

Barcelos, Carolina A., Asun M. Oka, Jipeng Yan, Lalitendu Das, Ezinne C. Achinivu, Harsha Magurudeniya, Jie Dong, Simay Akdemir, Nawa Raj Baral, Chunsheng Yan, Corinne D. Scown, Deepti Tanjore, Ning Sun, Blake A. Simmons, John M. Gladden, and Eric R. Sundstrom."High-Efficiency Conversion of Ionic Liquid-Pretreated Woody Biomass to Ethanol at the Pilot ScaleHigh-Efficiency Conversion of Ionic Liquid-Pretreated Woody Biomass to Ethanol at the Pilot Scale."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 9.11 (2021) 4042 - 4053. DOI

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

Scown, Corinne D., Nawa Raj Baral, Minliang Yang, Nemi Vora, and Tyler Huntington."Technoeconomic analysis for biofuels and bioproducts."Current Opinion in Biotechnology 67 (2021) 58-64.

Magurudeniya, Harsha, Nawa Raj Baral, Alberto Rodriguez, Corinne D. Scown, Jeff Dahlberg, Daniel Putnam, Anthe George, Blake A. Simmons, and John M. Gladden."Use of ensiled biomass sorghum increases ionic liquid pretreatment efficiency and reduces biofuel production cost and carbon footprint."Green Chemistry (2021). DOI

Anastasopoulou, Aikaterini, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Brandon R. Barnett, Henry Z.H. Jiang, Jeffrey R. Long, and Hanna Breunig."Technoeconomic analysis of metal–organic frameworks for bulk hydrogen transportation."Energy & Environmental Science (2021). DOI

2020

Yang, Minliang, Nawa Raj Baral, Aikaterini Anastasopoulou, Hanna Breunig, and Corinne D. Scown."Cost and Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Implications of Integrating Biogas Upgrading and Carbon Capture Technologies in Cellulosic Biorefineries."Environmental Science & Technology 54.20 (2020) 12810 - 12819. DOI

Yang, Minliang, Nawa Raj Baral, Aikaterini Anastasopoulou, Hanna Breunig, and Corinne D. Scown."Cost and Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Implications of Integrating Biogas and Upgrading Carbon Capture Technologies in Cellulosic Biorefineries."Environmental Science & Technology 54.20 (2020) 12810 - 12819. DOI

Baral, Nawa Raj, Jeff Dahlberg, Daniel Putnam, Jenny C. Mortimer, and Corinne D. Scown."Supply Cost and Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Footprint of Dry and Ensiled Biomass Sorghum for Biofuel Production."ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. (2020).

Nordahl, Sarah L., Jay P. Devkota, Jahon Amirebrahimi, Sarah Josephine Smith, Hanna Breunig, Chelsea V. Preble, Andrew Satchwell, Ling Jin, Nancy J. Brown, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, and Corinne D. Scown."Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Human Health Trade-Offs of Organic Waste Management StrategiesLife-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Human Health Trade-Offs of Organic Waste Management Strategies."Environmental Science & Technology 54.15 (2020) 9200 - 9209. DOI

Yang, Minliang, Nawa Raj Baral, Blake A. Simmons, Jenny C. Mortimer, Patrick M. Shih, and Corinne D. Scown."Accumulation of high-value bioproducts in planta can improve the economics of advanced biofuels."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.15 (2020) 8639 - 8648. 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

Masanet, Eric R., Arman Shehabi, Nuoa Lei, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Jonathan G. Koomey."Recalibrating global data center energy-use estimates."Science 367.6481 (2020) 984 - 986. DOI

2019

Breunig, Hanna, Jahon Amirebrahimi, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Corinne D. Scown."Role of Digestate and Biochar in Carbon-Negative Bioenergy."Environmental Science & Technology (2019). DOI

Baral, Nawa Raj, Olga Kavvada, Daniel Mendez Perez, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Taek Soon Lee, Blake A. Simmons, and Corinne D. Scown."Greenhouse Gas Footprint, Water-Intensity, and Production Cost of Bio-Based Isopentenol as a Renewable Transportation Fuel."ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. (2019) 15434–15444.

Baral, Nawa Raj, Eric R. Sundstrom, Lalitendu Das, John M. Gladden, Aymerick Eudes, Jenny C. Mortimer, Steven W. Singer, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, and Corinne D. Scown."Approaches for More Efficient Biological Conversion of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks to Biofuels and Bioproducts."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 7.10 (2019) 9062 - 9079. DOI

Martinez‐Hernandez, Elias, Xinguang Cui, Corinne D. Scown, Myriam A. Amezcua‐Allieri, Jorge Aburto, and Blake A. Simmons."Techno‐economic and greenhouse gas analyses of lignin valorization to eugenol and phenolic products in integrated ethanol biorefineries."Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining (2019). DOI

Baral, Nawa Raj, Olga Kavvada, Daniel Mendez-Perez, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Taek Soon Lee, Blake A. Simmons, and Corinne D. Scown."Techno-economic analysis and life-cycle greenhouse gas mitigation cost of five routes to bio-jet fuel blendstocks."Energy & Environmental Science 12.3 (2019) 807 - 824. DOI

2018

Greenblatt, Jeffery B., and Ling Jin."Technoeconomic Analysis of an Artificial Photosynthesis Fuel Plant Supplied by Raw Biogas." (2018).

Wu, Lipeng, Amit A. Gokhale, Konstantinos Goulas, John E. Myers, F. Dean Toste, and Corinne D. Scown."Hybrid Biological–Chemical Approach Offers Flexibility and Reduces the Carbon Footprint of Biobased Plastics, Rubbers, and Fuels."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 6.11 (2018) 14523 - 14532. DOI