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Researchers in EAEI focus on three broad areas: Energy Markets, Policy, and Infrastructure; Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis; and Appliance and Equipment Energy Efficiency Standards.

We develop analytical and experimental methods and tools to assess the technical, economic and market potential of energy technologies, as well as the associated social, economic, health and environmental impacts.
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EAEI researchers provide unbiased, scientific, high quality and innovative research and technical assistance to government agencies in the United States and throughout the world. We help these entities develop long-term strategies, policies and programs that facilitate energy efficiency and the deployment of clean energy technology with minimum environmental and health impacts in all sectors and industries.
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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

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

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

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

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

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

Scown, Corinne D."Prospects for carbon-negative biomanufacturing."Trends in Biotechnology 40.12 (2022) 1415 - 1424. DOI

Baral, Nawa Raj, Shruti K Mishra, Anthe George, Sagar Gautam, Umakant Mishra, and Corinne D Scown."Multifunctional landscapes for dedicated bioenergy crops lead to low-carbon market-competitive biofuels."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 169 (2022) 112857. DOI

Tian, Yang, Minliang Yang, Chien-Yuan Lin, Joon-Hyun Park, Chuan-Yin Wu, Ramu Kakumanu, Christopher M De Ben, Jutta Dalton, Khanh M Vuu, Patrick M Shih, Edward E.K Baidoo, Stephen Temple, Daniel Putnam, Henrik V Scheller, Corinne D Scown, and Aymerick Eudes."Expression of Dehydroshikimate Dehydratase in Sorghum Improves Biomass Yield, Accumulation of Protocatechuate, and Biorefinery Economics."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 10.38 (2022) 12520 - 12528. DOI

Achinivu, Ezinne C, Mica Cabrera, Athiyya Umar, Minliang Yang, Nawa Raj Baral, Corinne D Scown, Blake A Simmons, and John M Gladden."In Situ Synthesis of Protic Ionic Liquids for Biomass Pretreatment."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 10.37 (2022) 12090 - 12098. DOI

Demarteau, Jérémy, Alexander R Epstein, Peter R Christensen, Mark Abubekerov, Hai Wang, Simon J Teat, Trevor J Seguin, Christopher W Chan, Corinne D Scown, Thomas P Russell, Jay D Keasling, Kristin A Persson, and Brett A Helms."Circularity in mixed-plastic chemical recycling enabled by variable rates of polydiketoenamine hydrolysis."Science Advances 8.29 (2022). DOI

Yang, Minliang, Di Liu, Nawa Raj Baral, Chien-Yuan Lin, Blake A Simmons, John M Gladden, Aymerick Eudes, and Corinne D Scown."Comparing planta accumulation with microbial routes to set targets for a cost-competitive bioeconomy."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.30 (2022). DOI

Breunig, Hanna, Sarah Josephine Smith, Laxmi Rao, Alastair Robinson, Jacky Kinson, Robert Thornton, Corinne D Scown, and Vi H Rapp."Economic and greenhouse gas analysis of regional bioenergy-powered district energy systems in California."Resources, Conservation and Recycling 180 (2022) 106187. DOI

Gautam, Sagar, Umakant Mishra, Corinne D Scown, Skye A Wills, Kabindra Adhikari, Beth A Drewniak, and Bonnie G Waring."Continental United States may lose 1.8 petagrams of soil organic carbon under climate change by 2100."Global Ecology and Biogeography 31.6 (2022) 1147 - 1160. DOI

Demarteau, Jérémy, Nemi Vora, Jay D Keasling, Brett A Helms, and Corinne D Scown."Lower-Cost, Lower-Carbon Production of Circular Polydiketoenamine Plastics."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 10.8 (2022) 2740 - 2749. DOI

Scown, Corinne D, and Jay D Keasling."Sustainable manufacturing with synthetic biology."Nature Biotechnology 40.3 (2022) 304 - 307. DOI

2021

Porzio, Jason, and Corinne D Scown."Life‐Cycle Assessment Considerations for Batteries and Battery Materials."Advanced Energy Materials (2021) 2100771. DOI