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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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2015

Sreekumar, Sanil, Madhesan Balakrishnan, Konstantinos Goulas, Gorkam Gunbas, Amit A. Gokhale, Lin Louie, Adam Grippo, Corinne D. Scown, Alexis T. Bell, and F. Dean Toste."Upgrading Lignocellulosic Products to Drop-In Biofuels via Dehydrogenative Cross-Coupling and Hydrodeoxygenation Sequence."ChemSusChem 8.16 (2015) 2609 - 2614. DOI

DeForest, Nicholas, Arman Shehabi, James O'Donnell, Guillermo Garcia, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Eleanor S. Lee, Stephen E. Selkowitz, and Delia J. Milliron."United States energy and CO2 savings potential from deployment of near-infrared electrochromic window glazings."Building and Environment 89 (2015) 107 - 117. DOI

Balakrishnan, Madhesan, Eric R. Sacia, Sanil Sreekumar, Gorkam Gunbas, Amit A. Gokhale, Corinne D. Scown, 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

Hendrickson, Thomas P., Olga Kavvada, Nihar Shah, Roger Sathre, and Corinne D. Scown."Life-cycle implications and supply chain logistics of electric vehicle battery recycling in California."Environmental Research Letters 10.1 (2015). DOI

Smith, Sarah Josephine, Max Wei, and Michael D. Sohn."Retrospective North American CFL Experience Curve Analysis and Correlation to Deployment Programs." (2015).

2014

Morrow, William R. III, Anand R. Gopal, Gary A. Fitts, Sarah M. Lewis, Larry L. Dale, and Eric R. Masanet."Feedstock loss from drought is a major economic risk for biofuel producers."Biomass and Bioenergy 69 (2014) 135 - 143. DOI

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

Morrow, William R. III, John Marano, Jayant A. Sathaye, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Tengfang T. Xu."Energy Efficiency Improvements Potential in the U.S. Petroleum Refining Industry."2014 ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2014).

Morrow, William R. III, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Andrew Sturges, Samveg Saxena, Anand R. Gopal, Dev Millstein, Nihar Shah, and Elisabeth A. Gilmore."Key Factors Influencing Autonomous Vehicles’ Energy and Environmental Outcome."Road Vehicle Automation (2014) 127-135. DOI

Sathre, Roger, Corinne D. Scown, William R. Morrow III, John C. Stevens, Ian D. Sharp, Joel W. Ager III, Karl Walczak, Frances A. Houle, and Jeffery B. Greenblatt."Life-cycle net energy assessment of large-scale hydrogen production via photoelectrochemical water splitting."Energy Environ. Sci. 7.10 (2014) 3264 - 3278. DOI

Wei, Max, and Jeffery B. Greenblatt."Refrigerated Beverage Vending Machine Outdoor Location and Elevated (90°F) Outdoor Temperature Analysis." (2014).

Shehabi, Arman, Benjamin Walker, and Eric R. Masanet."Energy and Greenhouse Implications of Internet Video Streaming in the United States."Environmental Research Letters 9.5 (2014). 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).

Morrow, William R. III, Ali Hasanbeigi, Jayant A. Sathaye, and Tengfang T. Xu."Assessment of energy efficiency improvement and CO₂ emission reduction potentials in India's cement and iron and steel industries."Journal of Cleaner Production 65 (2014) 131 - 141. DOI

Lewis, Sarah M., Stephen Gross, Axel Visel, Maggi Kelly, and William R. Morrow III."Fuzzy GIS-based multi-criteria evaluation for U.S. Agave production as a bioenergy feedstock."Global Change Biology – Bioenergy (2014). 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

Shehabi, Arman, Nicholas DeForest, Andrew McNeil, Eric R. Masanet, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Eleanor S. Lee, Georgeta Masson, Brett A. Helms, and Delia J. Milliron."U.S. energy savings potential from dynamic daylighting control glazings."Energy and Buildings 66 (2013) 415-423. DOI

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

Masanet, Eric R., Yuan Chang, Anand R. Gopal, Peter H. Larsen, William R. Morrow III, Roger Sathre, Arman Shehabi, and Pei Zhai."Life-Cycle Assessment of Electric Power Systems."Annual Review of Environment and Resources 38 (2013) 107-136. DOI

Morrow, William R. III, John Marano, Jayant A. Sathaye, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Tengfang T. Xu."Assessment of Energy Efficiency Improvement in the United States Petroleum Refining Industry." (2013).

Masanet, Eric R., Jiaqi Liang, XiaoHui Ma, Benjamin Walker, Arman Shehabi, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Valerie Hendrix, and Pradeep Mantha."The Energy Efficiency Potential of Cloud-Based Software: A U.S. Case Study." (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

DeForest, Nicholas, Arman Shehabi, Guillermo Garcia, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Eric R. Masanet, Eleanor S. Lee, Stephen E. Selkowitz, and Delia J. Milliron."Regional performance targets for transparent near-infrared switching electrochromic window glazings."Building and Environment 61 (2013) 160 - 168. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, William R. Morrow III, Jayant A. Sathaye, Eric R. Masanet, and Tengfang T. Xu."A bottom-up model to estimate the energy efficiency improvement and CO₂ emission reduction potentials in the Chinese iron and steel industry."Energy 50 (2013) 315-325. DOI