Publications
X Author: Eric R Masanet
2026
Masanet, Eric R, Thomas P Hendrickson, Aven Satre-Maloy, Sarah Josephine Smith, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Kaiyu Sun, Jibran Zuberi, and Arman Shehabi."Maximizing the benefits of “Buy Clean” policies for building materials: Six key priorities."Resources, Conservation and Recycling
229 (2026) 108830. DOI
Hendrickson, Thomas P, Jibran Zuberi, Kaiyu Sun, Aven Satre-Meloy, Arman Shehabi, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Sarah Josephine Smith, Peng Peng, and Eric R Masanet."A rapid embodied carbon assessment tool for priority materials."Environmental Research Communications
8.4 (2026) 041003. DOI
2024
Shehabi, Arman, Sarah Josephine Smith, Alex Hubbard, Alexander Newkirk, Nuoa Lei, Md AbuBakar Siddik, Billie Holecek, Jonathan G Koomey, Eric R Masanet, and Dale A Sartor."2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report."
(2024). DOI
2021
Creutzig, Felix, Leila Niamir, Xuemei Bai, Max Callaghan, Jonathan M Cullen, Julio Díaz-José, Maria Figueroa, Arnulf Grubler, William F Lamb, Adrian Leip, Eric R Masanet, Érika Mata, Linus Mattauch, Jan C Minx, Sebastian Mirasgedis, Yacob Mulugetta, Sudarmanto Budi Nugroho, Minal Pathak, Patricia Perkins, Joyashree Roy, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Yamina Saheb, Shreya Some, Linda Steg, Julia Steinberger, and Diana Urge-Vorsatz."Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being."Nature Climate Change
(2021). DOI
2020
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
Rissman, Jeffrey, Chris Bataille, Eric R Masanet, Nate Aden, William R Morrow III, Nan Zhou, R. R Neal Elliott, Rebecca Dell, Niko Heeren, Brigitta Huckestein, Joe Cresko, Sabbie A Miller, Joyashree Roy, Paul Fennell, Betty Cremmins, Thomas Koch Blank, David Hone, Ellen D Williams, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Bill Sisson, Mike Williams, John Katzenberger, Dallas Burtraw, Girish Sethi, He Ping, David Danielson, Hongyou Lu, Tom Lorber, Jens Dinkel, and Jonas Helseth."Technologies and policies to decarbonize global industry: Review and assessment of mitigation drivers through 2070."Applied Energy
266 (2020) 114848. DOI
2019
Masanet, Eric R, Arman Shehabi, Nuoa Lei, Harald Vranken, Jonathan G Koomey, and Jens Malmodin."Implausible projections overestimate near-term Bitcoin CO2 emissions."
(2019). DOI
2018
Shehabi, Arman, Sarah Josephine Smith, Eric R Masanet, and Jonathan G Koomey."Data center growth in the United States: decoupling the demand for services from electricity use."Environmental Research Letters
13.12 (2018) 124030. DOI
2016
Shehabi, Arman, Sarah Josephine Smith, Dale A Sartor, Richard E Brown, Magnus Herrlin, Jonathan G Koomey, Eric R Masanet, Nathaniel Horner, Inês Lima Azevedo, and William Lintner."United States Data Center Energy Usage Report."
(2016).
Sathre, Roger, Hanna Breunig, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Peter H Larsen, Eric R Masanet, Thomas E McKone, Nigel Quinn, and Corinne D Scown."Spatially-explicit water balance implications of carbon capture and sequestration."Environmental Modelling & Software
75 (2016) 153 - 162. DOI
2014
Morrow III, William R, 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
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
2013
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
Masanet, Eric R, Arman Shehabi, and Jonathan G Koomey."Characteristics of low-carbon data centres."Nature Climate Change
3 (2013) 627-630. DOI
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).
Sathre, Roger, and Eric R Masanet."Prospective life-cycle modeling of a carbon capture and storage system using metal–organic frameworks for CO2 capture."RSC Advances
3.15 (2013) 4964. DOI
2012
Zhai, Pei, Peter H Larsen, Dev Millstein, Surabi Menon, and Eric R Masanet."Avoided emissions from high penetration of photovoltaic electricity in the United States."Energy
47.1 (2012). DOI
Sathre, Roger, and Eric R Masanet."Long-Term Energy and Climate Implications of Carbon Capture and Storage Deployment Strategies in the US Coal-Fired Electricity Fleet."Environmental Science & Technology
46.17 (2012) 9768 - 9776. DOI
Hasanbeigi, Ali, William R Morrow III, Eric R Masanet, Jayant A Sathaye, and Tengfang T Xu."Assessment of Energy Efficiency Improvement and CO2 Emission Reduction Potentials in the Cement Industry in China."
(2012).
Shehabi, Arman, William R Morrow III, and Eric R Masanet."United States Industrial Sector Energy End Use Analysis."
(2012).
Hasanbeigi, Ali, William R Morrow III, Jayant A Sathaye, Eric R Masanet, and Tengfang T Xu."Assessment of Energy Efficiency Improvement and CO2 Emission Reduction Potentials in the Iron and Steel Industry in China."
(2012).
Sathre, Roger, Ambrose Dodoo, Leif Gustavsson, Bruce Lippke, Gregg Marland, Eric R Masanet, Birger Solberg, and Frank Werner."Material Nature Versus Structural Nurture: The Embodied Carbon of Fundamental Structural Elements."Environmental Science & Technology
(2012).
Sathre, Roger, Mikhail Chester, Jennifer Cain, and Eric R Masanet."A framework for environmental assessment of CO2 capture and storage systems."Energy
37.1 (2012). DOI
Scown, Corinne D, William W Nazaroff, Umakant Mishra, Bret Strogen, Agnes B Lobscheid, Eric R Masanet, Nicholas J Santero, Arpad Horvath, and Thomas E McKone."Lifecycle greenhouse gas implications of US national scenarios for cellulosic ethanol production."Environmental Research Letters
7.1 (2012) 014011. DOI