Selected publications

  1. Belman Martínez, Aaron, Heather L MacLean, and I Daniel Posen. 2024. “Energy System Models Should Consider Evolving Charging Profiles.” Environmental Research: Energy 1 (4): 045005. https://doi.org/10.1088/2753-3751/ad7ebd.
  2. Bennett, Jeffrey A., Claire N. Trevisan, Joseph F. DeCarolis, Cecilio Ortiz-García, Marla Pérez-Lugo, Bevin T. Etienne, and Andres F. Clarens. 2021. “Extending Energy System Modelling to Include Extreme Weather Risks and Application to Hurricane Events in Puerto Rico.” Nature Energy 6 (3): 240–49.
  3. Blackhurst, Michael, Aranya Venkatesh, Aditya Sinha, Katherine Jordan, Nicholas Z Muller, Cameron Wade, Jeremiah X. Johnson, and Paulina Jaramillo. 2025. “Marginal Abatement Costs for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States Using an Energy Systems Approach.” Environmental Research: Energy. https://doi.org/10.1088/2753-3751/adb588.
  4. Cotterman, Turner, Mitchell J. Small, Stephen Wilson, Ahmed Abdulla, and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi. 2021. “Applying Risk Tolerance and Socio-Technical Dynamics for More Realistic Energy Transition Pathways.” Applied Energy 291 (June):116751. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116751.
  5. Ford, L. C., A. Queiroz, J. DeCarolis, and S. Arumugam. 2019. “Climate-Water-Energy Nexus: An Integrated Modeling Framework to Analyze Water and Power Systems Under a Changing Climate” 2019 (December):H54D-08.
  6. Jordan, Katherine, Peter Adams, Paulina Jaramillo, and Nicholas Muller. 2023. “Closing the Gap: Achieving U.S. Climate Goals beyond the Inflation Reduction Act.” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition 4 (August):100065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rset.2023.100065.
  7. Jordan, Katherine H., Luke R. Dennin, Peter J. Adams, Paulina Jaramillo, and Nicholas Z. Muller. 2024. “Climate Policy Reduces Racial Disparities in Air Pollution from Transportation and Power Generation.” Environmental Science & Technology 58 (49): 21510–22. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c03719.
  8. Patankar, Neha, Hadi Eshraghi, Anderson Rodrigo de Queiroz, and Joseph F. DeCarolis. 2022. “Using Robust Optimization to Inform US Deep Decarbonization Planning.” Energy Strategy Reviews 42 (July):100892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2022.100892.
  9. Schivley, Greg, Michael Blackhurst, Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez, Jesse Jenkins, Oleg Lugovoy, Qian Luo, Michael J. Roberts, Rangrang Zheng, Cameron Wade, and Matthias Fripp. 2024. “Process and Policy Insights from Intercomparing Electricity System Capacity Expansion Models.” arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.13783.
  10. Sinha, Aditya, Aranya Venkatesh, Katherine Jordan, Cameron Wade, Hadi Eshraghi, Anderson R. de Queiroz, Paulina Jaramillo, and Jeremiah X. Johnson. 2024. “Diverse Decarbonization Pathways under near Cost-Optimal Futures.” Nature Communications 15 (1): 8165. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52433-z.
  11. Smillie, Sean, Parth Vaishnav, Cameron Wade, Katherine Jordan, Aranya Venkatesh, Aditya Sinha, and Jay Apt. 2024. “Hybrid Heat Pumps Avoid Extreme Marginal Abatement Costs of Electrifying Peak Heating Loads in Cold Regions.” Environmental Research Letters 19 (9): 094054. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad6c63.
  12. Sodano, Daniel, Joseph F. DeCarolis, Anderson Rodrigo de Queiroz, and Jeremiah X. Johnson. 2021. “The Symbiotic Relationship of Solar Power and Energy Storage in Providing Capacity Value.” Renewable Energy 177:823–32.
  13. DeCarolis, J. F., Jaramillo, P., Johnson, J. X., McCollum, D. L., Trutnevyte, E., Daniels, D. C., Akın-Olçum, G., Bergerson, J., Cho, S., Choi, J.-H., Craig, M. T., de Queiroz, A. R., Eshraghi, H., Galik, C. S., Gutowski, T. G., Haapala, K. R., Hodge, B.-M., Hoque, S., Jenkins, J. D., … Zhou, Y. (2020). Leveraging open-source tools for Collaborative Macro-energy system modeling efforts. Joule, 4(12), 2523–2526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2020.11.002
  14. DeCarolis, J. (2019). Modeling Low Carbon Energy Futures for the United States. Generation Research. https://doi.org/10.25815/xbvj-xa70

Reports

OEO researchers publish annual Open Energy Outlooks that include projections of energy use and emissions for assuming either current policies or net zero emissions. In addition to summarizing results for each of these scenarios, each report covers a salient topic related to decarbonizing the U.S. energy system. If you're interested in learning more about OEO, please contact Mike Blackhurst or consider joining the corporate consortium.