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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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2008

Morrow III, William R, and Peter Balash."Biomass Allocation Model – Comparing Alternative Uses of Scarce Biomass Energy Resource Through Estimations of Future Biomass Use for Liquid Fuels and Electricity." (2008).

Hauschild, Michael Z, Mark Huijbregts, Olivier Jolliet, Matthew Macleod, Manuele D Margni, Dik van de Meent, Ralph K Rosenbaum, and Thomas E McKone."Building a model based on scientific consensus for Life Cycle Impact Assessment of Chemicals: the Search for Harmony and Parsimony."Environmental Science and Technology 42 (2008) 7032-7037.

Price, Phillip N, Thomas E McKone, and Michael D Sohn."Carbon Sequestration Risks and Risk Management." (2008).

Wiberg, Karin, Annika Aberg, Thomas E McKone, Mats Tysklind, Annika Hanberg, and Matthew Macleod."Model selection and evaluation for risk assessment of dioxin contaminated sites."Ambio 36 (2008) 458-466.

Morrow III, William R, W. W Michael Griffin, and H. H Scott Matthews."National-level infrastructure and economic effects of switchgrass co-firing with coal in existing power-plants for carbon mitigation. Environmental Science and Technology."Environmental Science & Technology 42.10 (2008) 3501-3507. DOI

Redding, Laurel E, Michael D Sohn, Thomas E McKone, Shu-Li Wang, Dennis P.H Hsieh, and Raymond S. H Yang."Population Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling for the Human Lactational Transfer of PCB 153 with Consideration of Worldwide Human Biomonitoring Results."Environmental Health Perspectives 116.12 (2008) 1629-1634.

2007

McKone, Thomas E, and Randy L Maddalena."Plant Uptake of Organic Pollutants from Soil: Bioconcentration Estimates Based on Models and Experiments-Review."Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 26 (2007) 2494-504.

Maddalena, Randy L, Matthew Macleod, and Thomas E McKone."Plant Uptake of Organic Pollutants from Soil: Model Performance Evaluation."Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 26 (2007) 2494–2504.

Morrow III, William R, W. W Michael Griffin, and H. H Scott Matthews."State-level infrastructure and economic effects of switchgrass co-firing with coal in existing power plants for carbon mitigation."Environmental Science and Technology 41.19 (2007) 6657–6662. DOI

Ryan, P. P Barry, Thomas A Burke, Elaine A Cohen Hubal, Jerome J Cura, and Thomas E McKone."Using Biomarkers to Inform Cumulative Risk Assessment."Environmental Health Perspectives 115.5 (2007) 833-840. DOI

2006

McKone, Thomas E, Amy D Kyle, Olivier Jolliet, Stig I Olsen, and Michael Z Hauschild."Dose-response modeling for life cycle impact assessment, Findings of the Portland Review Workshop."International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 11 (2006) 209-212.

McKone, Thomas E, and Mitchell J Small."Integrated Environmental Assessment Part III: Exposure Assessment." (2006).

Morrow III, William R, W. W Michael Griffin, and W.M Matthews."Modeling Switchgrass Derived Cellulosic Ethanol Distribution in the United States."Environmental Science and Technology 40.9 (2006) 2877–2886. DOI

Maddalena, Randy L, Matthew Macleod, Thomas E McKone, and Michael D Sohn."Prospective Hazard Assessment and Sensitivity Analysis for Buckminsterfullerene in the Environment." (2006).

Lobscheid, Agnes B, and Thomas E McKone."Public Health Benefits of End-Use Electrical Energy Efficiency in California." (2006).

2005

McKone, Thomas E, and Ashok W Deshpande."Can Fuzzy Logic Bring Complex Problems into Focus?."Environmental Science and Technology 39 (2005) 42A-47A.

McKone, Thomas E, and Philip Wexler."Pollution, Soil."Encylopedia of Toxicology (2005) 489-495.

2004

Macleod, Matthew, Thomas E McKone, Karen L Foster, Randy L Maddalena, Thomas F Parkerton, and Donald Mackay."Applications of contaminant fate and bioaccumulation models in assessing ecological risks of chemicals: A case study for gasoline hydrocarbons."Environmental Science & Technology 38.23 (2004) 6225 -6233. DOI

Sohn, Michael D, Thomas E McKone, and Jerry N Blancato."Reconstructing Population Exposures from Dose Biomarkers: Inhalation of Trichloroethylene (TCE) as a Case Study."Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 14 (2004) 204-213. DOI

Maddalena, Randy L, Thomas E McKone, and Michael D Sohn."Standardized Approach for Developing Probabilistic Exposure Factor Distributions."Risk Analysis 24 (2004) 1185-1199.

2002

Castorina, Rosemary, Asa Bradman, and Thomas E McKone."Assessing cumulative organophosphate pesticide exposure and risk among pregnant women living in an agricultural community."Environmental Health Perspectives 111 (2002) 1640-1648.

Bennett, Deborah H, Thomas E McKone, John S Evans, William W Nazaroff, Manuele D Margni, Olivier Jolliet, and Kirk R Smith."Defining intake fraction."Environmental Science & Technology 36 (2002) 207A-211A.

Bennett, Deborah H, Manuele D Margni, Thomas E McKone, and Olivier Jolliet."Intake Fraction for Multimedia Pollutants: A Tool for Life Cycle Analysis and Comparative Risk Assessment."Risk Analysis 22 (2002) 903-916.

2001

Maddalena, Randy L, Thomas E McKone, Dennis P.H Hsieh, and Shu Geng."Influential input classification in probabilistic multimedia models."Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 15.1 (2001) 1-17. DOI

McKone, Thomas E, and Edgar G Hertwich."The Human Toxicity Potential and a Strategy for Evaluating Model Performance in Life-Cycle Impact Assessment."International Journal of Life-Cycle Assessment 6.2 (2001) 106-109. DOI