The influence of regional geophysical resource variability on the value of single- and multi-storage technology portfolios.
Li, Virgüez, Dowling et al., Environ. Sci. Technol., 2024.
Anna X. Li,* Edgar A. Virgüez,* Jacqueline A. Dowling,* Tyler H. Ruggles, Alicia Wongel, Natasha D. Reich, Nathan S. Lewis, Ken Caldeira.
Opportunities and constraints of hydrogen energy storage systems.
Dowling et al., Environ. Res.: Energy, 2024
Jacqueline A. Dowling, Tyler H. Ruggles, Edgar Virgüez, Natasha D. Reich, Zachary P. Ifkovits, Steven J. Davis, Anna X. Li, Kathleen Kennedy, Katherine Z. Rinaldi, Lei Duan, Ken Caldeira, Nathan S. Lewis
Planning reliable wind- and solar-based electricity systems.
Ruggles, Virgüez et al., Adv. Appl. Energy., 2024.
Ruggles, T. H.*; Virgüez, E. A.*; Reich, N. D.; Dowling, J. A.; Bloomfield, H.; Antonini, E.; Davis, S. J.; Lewis, N. S.; Caldeira, K.
Catalysis of the oxygen-evolution reaction in 1.0 M sulfuric acid by manganese antimonate films synthesized via chemical vapor deposition. (See Front Cover)
Dowling et al., ACS Appl. Energy Mater, 2024.
Jacqueline A. Dowling⊥, Zachary P. Ifkovits⊥, Azhar I. Carim, Jake M. Evans, Madeleine C. Swint, Alexander Z. Ye, Matthias H. Richter, Anna X. Li, and Nathan S. Lewis.
Powdered MnySb1–yOx catalysts for cerium-mediated oxygen evolution in acidic environments
Ifkovits et al., ACS Energy Lett. 2022.
Zachary P. Ifkovits, Jake M. Evans, Paul A. Kempler, Maureen B. Morla, Kim H. Pham, Jacqueline A. Dowling, Azhar I. Carim, and Nathan S. Lewis.
The role of concentrated solar power with thermal energy storage in least-cost highly reliable electricity systems fully powered by variable renewable energy
Kennedy et al., Advances in Applied Energy, 2022
Kathleen M. Kennedy, Tyler H. Ruggles, Katherine Z. Rinaldi, Jacqueline A. Dowling, Lei Duan, Ken Caldeira, Nathan S. Lewis.
Long-duration energy storage for reliable renewable electricity: The realistic possibilities
Dowling and Lewis, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2021.
Jacqueline A. Dowling and Nathan S. Lewis.
Portfolios all the way down...
Caldeira and Dowling, Joule, 2021.
Ken Caldeira and Jacqueline A. Dowling.
Opportunities for flexible electricity loads such as hydrogen production from curtailed generation
Ruggles et al., Advances in Applied Energy, 2021
Tyler H. Ruggles, Jacqueline A. Dowling, Nathan S. Lewis, Ken Caldeira.
Wind and solar resource droughts in California highlight the benefits of long-term storage and integration with the Western Interconnect.
Katherine Z. Rinaldi, Jacqueline A. Dowling, Tyler H. Ruggles, Ken Caldeira, Nathan S. Lewis.
Would firm generators facilitate or deter
variable renewable energy in a carbon-free electricity system?
Yuan et al., Applied Energy, 2020
Mengyao Yuan, Fan Tong, Lei Duan, Jacqueline A. Dowling, Steven J. Davis, Nathan S. Lewis, and Ken Caldeira
Chapter 5.1 of America's Zero-Carbon Action Plan 2020 report: Accelerating Deep Decarbonization in the U.S. Power Sector.
Chris Castro, Jacqueline A. Dowling, Payman Dehghanian, Emre Gençer, Daniel Kammen, Jeffrey Logan, Meagan Mauter, Brian Tarroja, Gernot Wagner
Role of long-duration energy storage
in variable renewable electricity systems
See also: Research Brief. Caltech News.
Jacqueline A. Dowling, Katherine Z. Rinaldi, Tyler H. Ruggles, Steven J. Davis, Mengyao Yuan, Fan Tong, Nathan S. Lewis, and Ken Caldeira.
Molecular diversity of sea spray aerosol particles: Impact of ocean biology on particle composition and hygroscopicity.
Richard E.Cochran, [...], Jacqueline A. Dowling, [...], Kimberly A. Prather, and Vicki H. Grassian
Heterogeneous chemistry of lipopolysaccharides with gas-phase nitric acid: Reactive sites and reaction pathways.
Trueblood et al., J. Phys. Chem. A, 2016.
Jonathan V. Trueblood, Armando D. Estillore, Christopher Lee, Jacqueline A. Dowling, Kimberly A. Prather, and Vicki H. Grassian
Several U.S. states mandate zero-carbon electricity systems based primarily on renewable technologies, such as wind and solar. Reliable and affordable electricity systems based on these variable resources may depend on the ability to store large quantities of low-cost energy over long timescales. This thesis combines techno-economic analysis with materials chemistry to advance long-duration energy storage in reliable wind and solar electricity systems. Our macro-energy model incorporated multi-decadal weather datasets and revealed unique long-duration energy storage roles, such as seasonal and multi-year storage, that increase the affordability of wind- and solar-based electricity, informing technology investments and policy. We find that low-cost energy storage, such as underground hydrogen, is valuable even if the charge/discharge cost is expensive. In U.S. wind and solar systems, hydrogen energy storage and conversion capital cost improvements are more valuable than efficiency improvements. Low-cost earth-abundant catalysts may be acceptable replacements for precious metal catalysts in proton exchange membrane electrolyzers despite lower efficiency for storage applications in wind and solar systems. We synthesized earth-abundant manganese antimony oxide catalysts via a new chemical vapor deposition route and assessed their long-term electrochemical durability for oxygen evolution. Multi-day tests confirmed the activity-stability tradeoff across the Mn:Sb composition space. (Link to PhD Thesis)