Eric Masanet

Biographic Data

ID8952522
NAMEEric Masanet
GIVEN NAMESEric
FAMILY NAMEMasanet
SIGNATUREMASANET E
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Northwestern University Evanston IL USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Economic benefits and cost competitiveness of green hydrogen in decarbonizing China’s electricity and hard-to-electrify sectors

    Open AccessHaozhe Yang, Gang He et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Green hydrogen has the potential to address two critical challenges in a zero-carbon energy system: balancing seasonal variability of solar and wind in the electricity sector, and replacing fossil fuels in hard-to-electrify sectors. In this study, focusing on China, we deploy a provincial-scale energy system planning and operation model to examine the technical and cost-optimal potential of green hydrogen to fully remove carbon-based fuels in the…

  • Technologies and policies to decarbonize global industry

    Open AccessJeffrey Rissman, Chris Bataille et al.ARTICLEApplied Energy2020

    Fully decarbonizing global industry is essential to achieving climate stabilization, and reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050–2070 is necessary to limit global warming to 2 °C. This paper assembles and evaluates technical and policy interventions, both on the supply side and on the demand side. It identifies measures that, employed together, can achieve net zero industrial emissions in the required timeframe. Key supply-side technol…

  • Recalibrating global data center energy-use estimates

    Open AccessErika Masanet, Eric Masanet et al.ARTICLEScience2020

    Growth in energy use has slowed owing to efficiency gains that smart policies can help maintain in the near term

  • Material efficiency strategies to reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with buildings, vehicles, and electronics—a review

    Open AccessEdgar G Hertwich, Saleem H Ali et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    As one quarter of global energy use serves the production of materials, the more efficient use of these materials presents a significant opportunity for the mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. With the renewed interest of policy makers in the circular economy, material efficiency (ME) strategies such as light-weighting and downsizing of and lifetime extension for products, reuse and recycling of materials, and appropriate material choic…

  • Data center growth in the United States

    Open AccessArman Shehabi, Sarah Smith et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Data centers are energy intensive buildings that have grown in size and number to meet the increasing demands of a digital economy.This paper presents a bottom-up model to estimate data center electricity demand in the United States over a 20 year period and examines observed and projected electricity use trends in the context of changing data center operations.Results indicate a rapidly increasing electricity demand at the turn of the century th…

  • Environmental and Economic Implications of Distributed Additive Manufacturing

    Open AccessRunze Huang, Matthew E Riddle et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2017

    Additive manufacturing (AM) holds great potentials in enabling superior engineering functionality, streamlining supply chains, and reducing life cycle impacts compared to conventional manufacturing (CM). This study estimates the net changes in supply‐chain lead time, life cycle primary energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and life cycle costs (LCC) associated with AM technologies for the case of injection molding, to shed light on …

  • A hybrid life-cycle inventory for multi-crystalline silicon PV module manufacturing in China

    Open AccessYuan Yao, Yuan Chang et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2014

    China is the world’s largest manufacturer of multi-crystalline silicon photovoltaic (mc-Si PV) modules, which is a key enabling technology in the global transition to renewable electric power systems. This study presents a hybrid life-cycle inventory (LCI) of Chinese mc-Si PV modules, which fills a critical knowledge gap on the environmental implications of mc-Si PV module manufacturing in China. The hybrid LCI approach combines process-based LCI…

  • The energy and greenhouse-gas implications of internet video streaming in the United States

    Open AccessArman Shehabi, Ben Walker et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2014

    The rapid growth of streaming video entertainment has recently received attention as a possibly less energy intensive alternative to the manufacturing and transportation of digital video discs (DVDs). This study utilizes a life-cycle assessment approach to estimate the primary energy use and greenhouse-gas emissions associated with video viewing through both traditional DVD methods and online video streaming. Base-case estimates for 2011 video vi…

  • Lifecycle greenhouse gas implications of US national scenarios for cellulosic ethanol production

    Open AccessCorinne D Scown, William W Nazaroff et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2012

    The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 set an annual US national production goal of 39.7 billion l of cellulosic ethanol by 2020. This paper explores the possibility of meeting that target by growing and processing Miscanthus × giganteus. We define and assess six production scenarios in which active cropland and/or Conservation Reserve Program land are used to grow to Miscanthus. The crop and biorefinery locations are chosen with consid…

  • Energy Benefits of Electronic Controls at Small and Medium Sized U.S. Manufacturers

    Open AccessErika Masanet, Eric MasanetARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2010

  • Exploring Environmental Applications and Benefits of Information and Communication Technology

    Open AccessErika Masanet, Eric Masanet et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2010