The Future Electricity System
Grubert, E. and S. Hastings-Simon. 2022. Designing the mid-transition: A review of medium-term challenges for coordinated decarbonization in the United States. WIREs Climate Change. DOI: 10.1002/wcc.768; Full text.
Grubert, E. 2021. Emissions projections for US utilities through 2050 (open access). Environmental Research Letters. Excel models (will also be added to that link upon final publication): Utility-level emissions projections assuming non-owned power is purchased from Balancing authority (1A), State (1B), or NERC region (1C).
Grubert, E. 2020. Fossil electricity retirement deadlines for a just transition. Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.abe0375; Full text; Supplemental Material; Model; Interactive map.
Grubert, E., J. Stokes-Draut, A. Horvath, and W. Eisenstein. 2020. Utility-specific projections of electricity sector greenhouse gas emissions: a committed emissions model-based case study of California through 2050. Environmental Research Letters (open access). Model.
Methane
Burns, D. and E. Grubert. 2021. Contribution of Regionalized Methane Emissions to Natural Gas-Fired Electricity and Carbon Capture in the United States. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.1c00531; Full text; SI Data File.
Burns, D. and E. Grubert. 2021. Attribution of production-stage methane emissions to assess spatial variability in the climate intensity of US natural gas consumption. Environmental Research Letters. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abef33. Open access article; SI; Data File.
Grubert, E. 2020. At scale, renewable natural gas systems could be climate intensive: The influence of methane feedstock and leakage rates. Environmental Research Letters. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab9335. Open access article; Data File.
Grubert, E. and A. Brandt. 2019. Three considerations for modeling natural gas system methane emissions in life cycle assessment. Journal of Cleaner Production. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.03.096; Author pre-print; Data File; Supplementary Information.
Water and Energy
Marshall, A. and E. Grubert. 2022. Hydroelectricity modeling for low-carbon and no-carbon grids: Empirical operational parameters for optimization and dispatch models. Earth’s Future. DOI: 10.1029/2021EF002503; Open access (click link for paper).
Grubert, E. and A. Marshall. 2021. Water for Energy: Characterizing Co-evolving Energy and Water Systems under Twin Climate and Energy System Nonstationarities. WIREs Water. DOI:10.1002/wat2.1576; Full text.
Grubert, E., E. Rogers, and K. Sanders. 2020. Consistent Terminology and Reporting Are Needed to Describe Water Quantity Use. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. DOI:10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001241; Author pre-print; Supplemental data.
Tarroja, B., R. Peer, K. Sanders, and E. Grubert. 2020. How do non-carbon priorities affect zero-carbon electricity systems? A case study of freshwater consumption and cost for Senate Bill 100 compliance in California. Applied Energy. DOI:10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.114824; Author pre-print
Grubert, E. Conventional Hydroelectricity and the Future of Energy: Linking National Inventory of Dams and Energy Information Administration Data to Facilitate Analysis of Hydroelectricity. The Electricity Journal. DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2019.106692; Author pre-print; Data file (record linkage)
Peer, R., E. Grubert, and K. T. Sanders. 2019. A Regional Assessment of the Water Embedded in the US Electricity System. Environmental Research Letters. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab2daa; Open access (click link for paper)
Greer, F., J. Chittick, E. Jackson, J. Mack, M. Shortlidge, and E. Grubert. 2019. Energy and water efficiency in LEED: How well are LEED points linked to climate outcomes? Energy and Buildings. DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.05.010; Author pre-print; Supplementary Information.
Grubert, E. and K. T. Sanders. 2018. Water Use in the United States Energy System: A National Assessment and Unit Process Inventory of Water Consumption and Withdrawals. Environmental Science and Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b00139;
Author pre-print; Data File; Supplementary Information
Grubert, E. 2016. Water Consumption from Hydroelectricity in the United States. Advances in Water Resources. DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.07.004; Author pre-print; Data Files (Penman-Monteith Excel models — all CONUS primary purpose hydro, top 100 generating dams, California, Shasta/Glen Canyon/Grand Coulee/Hoover); Supplementary Information
Grubert, E. and M. E. Webber. 2016. Synthetic flows for engineered systems with nonstationary parameters: A study of Maui’s Wailoa Ditch. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001468; Author pre-print.
Grubert, E. and M. E. Webber. 2015. Energy for water and water for energy on Maui Island, Hawaii. Environmental Research Letters. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/064009; Open access.
Grubert, E., A. Stillwell, and M. E. Webber. 2014. Where does solar-aided desalination make sense? A method for identifying sustainable sites. Desalination. DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2014.02.004; Full text.
Grubert, E., F. Beach, and M. E. Webber. 2012. Can switching fuels save water? A life cycle quantification of freshwater consumption for Texas coal- and natural gas-fired electricity. Environmental Research Letters. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/045801; Open access.
Socioenvironmental assessment
Grubert, E. and M. Zacarias. 2022. Paradigm shifts for environmental assessment of decarbonizing energy systems: Emerging dominance of embodied impacts and design-oriented decision support needs. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2022.112208; Full text.
Grubert, E. 2021. Beyond Carbon in Socioenvironmental Assessment: Life Cycle Assessment as a Decision Support Tool for Net-Zero Energy Systems. Energy and Climate Change. DOI: 10.1016/j.egycc.2021.100061; Full text.
Grubert, E. 2018. Relational values in environmental assessment: the social context of environmental impact. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2018.10.020; Author pre-print.
Grubert, E. 2017. The Need for a Preference-based Multicriteria Prioritization Framework in Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment. Journal of Industrial Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12631; Author pre-print.
Grubert, E. 2017. Implicit prioritization in Life Cycle Assessment: Text mining and detecting metapatterns in the literature. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. DOI: 10.1007/s11367-016-1153-2; Author pre-print.
Grubert, E. 2016. Rigor in Social Life Cycle Assessment: Improving the scientific grounding of SLCA. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. DOI: 10.1007/s11367-016-1117-6; Author pre-print.
Community-based interview and survey research
Grubert, E. 2019. Every Door Direct Mail in US survey research: An anonymous census approach to mail survey sampling. Methodological Innovations. DOI: 10.1177/2059799119862104; Open access (click link for paper)
Grubert, E. 2018. The Eagle Ford and Bakken shale regions of the United States:
A comparative case study. The Extractive Industries and Society. DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2018.09.011; Author pre-print.
Grubert, E. and M. Cook. 2017. Communication Science for Science Communication: Water Management for Oil and Natural Gas Extraction. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000842; Author pre-print.
Grubert, E. and W. Skinner. 2017. A Town Divided: Community Values and Attitudes Towards Coal Seam Gas development in Gloucester, New South Wales. Energy Research and Social Science. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.05.041; Author pre-print.
*Drummond, V. and E. Grubert. 2017. Fault Lines: Seismicity and the Fracturing of Energy Narratives in Oklahoma. Energy Research and Social Science. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.05.039; Author pre-print. *Undergraduate advisee
Grubert, E. 2017. How to Do Mail Surveys in the Digital Age: A Practical Guide. Survey Practice; Open access.
Lukacs, H., N. M. Ardoin, and E. Grubert. 2016. Beyond formal groups: neighboring acts and watershed protection in Appalachia. International Journal of the Commons. DOI: 10.18352/ijc.578; Open access.
Computational Social Science / Digital Humanities
Grubert, E. and M. Algee-Hewitt. 2017. Villainous or Valiant? Depictions of Oil and Coal in American Fiction and Nonfiction Narratives. Energy Research and Social Science. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.05.030; Author pre-print.
Grubert, E. 2017. Implicit prioritization in Life Cycle Assessment: Text mining and detecting metapatterns in the literature. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. DOI: 10.1007/s11367-016-1153-2; Author pre-print.
Grubert, E. and A. Siders. 2016. Benefits and applications of interdisciplinary digital tools for environmental meta-reviews and analyses. Environmental Research Letters. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/093001; Open access. Selected for September 2016 monthly highlights.
Other pieces
Grubert, E. 2012. Reserve reporting in the United States coal industry. Energy Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.01.035; Full text.