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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.

Publications

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2019

Coll, Claudia, Claudia Lindim, Anna Sobek, Michael D. Sohn, and Matthew Macleod."Prospects for finding Junge variability-lifetime relationships for micropollutants in the Danube river."Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts 21.9 (2019) 1489 - 1497. DOI

2009

Cowan-Ellsberry, Christina E., Michael S. McLachlan, Jon A. Arnot, Matthew Macleod, Thomas E. McKone, and Frank Wania."Modeling Exposure to Persistent Chemicals in Hazard and Risk Assessment."Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (IEAM) 5.4 (2009) 662-679. DOI

2008

Rosenbaum, Ralph K., Till M. Bachman, Lois S. Gold, Mark Huijbregts, Olivier Jolliet, Ronnie Juraske, Annette Koehler, Henrik F. Larsen, Matthew Macleod, Manuele D. Margni, Thomas E. McKone, Jérôme Payet, Marta Schuhmacher, Dik van de Meent, and Michael Z. Hauschild."USEtox - The UNEP-SETAC toxicity model: recommended characterisation factors for human toxicity and freshwater ecotoxicity in Life Cycle Impact Assessment."The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 13.7 (2008) 532-546. DOI

Hauschild, Michael Z., Till M. Bachman, Mark Huijbregts, Olivier Jolliet, Annette Kohler, Henrik F. Larsen, Manuele D. Margni, Thomas E. McKone, Matthew Macleod, Dik van de Meent, Marta Schuhmacher, and Ralph K. Rosenbaum."International consensus model for comparative assessment of chemical emissions in LCA."International Academy for Production Engineering 15th International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, March 17-19, 2008 (2008) 291-296.

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.

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.

2007

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.

2006

Macleod, Matthew, Thomas E. McKone, and Donald Mackay."A Mass Balance for Mercury in the San Francisco Bay Area."Environmental Science and Technology 39 (2006) 6721-6729.

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

2005

Macleod, Matthew, William J. Riley, and Thomas E. McKone."Assessing the Influence of Climate Variability on Atmospheric Concentrations of Persistent Organic Pollutants Using a Global-Scale Mass Balance Model (BETR-Global)."Environmental Science & Technology 39 (2005) 6749-6756.

Macleod, Matthew, Thomas E. McKone, Kathrin Fenner, Martin Scheringer, Michael Matthies, Maximilian Stroebe, Andreas Beyer, Mark Bonnell, Anne Christine Le Gall, Jörg Klasmeier, Donald Mackay, Dik van de Meent, David Pennington, Bernd Scharenberg, Noriyuki Suzuki, and Frank Wania."Comparing estimates of persistence and long-range transport potential among multimedia models."Environmental Science & Technology 39 (2005) 1932 -1942. DOI

Macleod, Matthew, and Thomas E. McKone."Identifying POP-Like Behavior in Screening Assessments of Organic Chemicals."Environmental Science & Technology 40 (2005) 53-60.

Macleod, Matthew, William J. Riley, and Thomas E. McKone."Modeling transport and deposition of level 1 substances to the great lakes." (2005).

2004

Macleod, Matthew, Deborah H. Bennett, Merike Perem, Randy L. Maddalena, Thomas E. McKone, and Donald Mackay."Dependence of Intake Fraction on Release Location in a Multimedia Framework - A Case Study of Four Contaminants in North America."Journal of Industrial Ecology 8.3 (2004) 89-102. DOI

Fenner, Kathrin, Matthew Macleod, Maximilian Stroebe, Andreas Beyer, Martin Scheringer, Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Sonja Schmidt, Andrea E. Rizzoli, and Anthony J. Jakeman."Relative importance of model and parameter uncertainty in models used for prediction of persistence and long-range transport potential of chemical pollutants."2nd Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society 3 (2004) 1229-1234.

Toose, Liisa, David G. Woodﬁne, Matthew Macleod, Donald Mackay, and Jennifer Gouin."BETR-World: a geographically explicit model of chemical fate: application to transport of α-HCH to the Arctic."Environmental Pollution 128.1-2 (2004) 223-240. DOI

Prevedouros, Konstantinos, Matthew Macleod, Kevin C. Jones, and Andrew J. Sweetman."Modelling the fate of persistent organic pollutants in Europe: Parameterisation of a gridded distribution model."Environmental Pollution 128 (2004) 251-261. DOI

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

Macleod, Matthew, and Donald Mackay."Modeling transport and deposition of contaminants to ecosystems of concern: A case study for the Laurentian Great Lakes."Environmental Pollution 128 (2004) 241-250.

Macleod, Matthew."Overall multi-media persistence as an indicator of potential for population-level intake of environmental contaminants."Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 23 (2004) 2465-2472.

2003

Macleod, Matthew."On the influence of forests on the overall fate of semivolatile organic contaminants."Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 17 (2003) 256-259.

Macleod, Matthew."On the influence of forests on the overall fate of semivolatile organic contaminants."Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 17 (2003) 256-259.

McKone, Thomas E., and Matthew Macleod."Tracking Multiple Pathways of Human Exposure to Persistent Multimedia Pollutants: Regional, Continental, and Global Scale Models."Annual Review of Environment and Resources 28 (2003) 11.

2001

Macleod, Matthew, David G. Woodﬁne, Donald Mackay, Thomas E. McKone, Deborah H. Bennett, and Randy L. Maddalena."BETR North America: A regionally segmented multimedia contaminant fate model for North America."Environmental Science & Pollution Research 8 (2001) 156-163.