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To ensure energy audits help climate goals, target emissions
"Energy audits can be a useful tool for reducing industrial emissions, but new research co-led by Valerie Karplus found that clear...

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Mar 121 min read
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Accelerating green steel
The outcomes of the 2024 CMU Accelerating Green Steel Workshop, co-hosted on campus from November 13-14, 2024 by the Wilton E. Scott...

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Mar 121 min read
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2024 Accelerating Green Steel Workshop Proceedings
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation hosted a Research Workshop on Accelerating Green Steel at Carnegie Mellon University,...

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Mar 121 min read
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Beyond the Bottom Line: Assessing Non-Economic Barriers to Hydrogen Adoption
Read LEO member Dr. Ioana Iacob's Engineering and Public Policy Ph.D. thesis below.

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Feb 261 min read
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Looking back on 2024, the second year of the INDABA Partnership
The year 2024 was an exciting one for the Industrial Decarbonization Analysis, Benchmarking, and Action (INDABA) Partnership, a research...

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Feb 142 min read
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Feature Engineering to Embed Process Knowledge: Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking
Zhuo, Q.; Al-Harbi, M.N.; Pistorius, P.C. (2025). Feature Engineering to Embed Process Knowledge: Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of...

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2024 CMU Accelerating Green Steel Workshop Results in Two Collaborative Steel Industry Memos
Hosted on CMU's campus by the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation and the Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research, the 2024...

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Jan 221 min read
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Technology, Institutions, and Organizational Performance in Public Health and Climate Change Contexts
Read LEO member Dr. Elina Hoffmann's Engineering and Public Policy Ph.D. thesis below.

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Jan 221 min read
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Operational Uncertainty in Blast Furnace CO2 Emissions
Dr. Elina Hoffman presented her research at the 2024 International Energy Workshop hosted in Bonn, Germany. Visit the link below to...

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Jan 221 min read
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Hubs: A step towards a hydrogen future?
Dr. Karplus's and Dr. Morgan's article for the journal Risk Analysis is the subject of this news piece published on October 25, 2024 by...

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Jan 221 min read
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Expanding renewable electricity use in global corporate supply chains
Sievert, K., Song, Y., Chen, Y., and Karplus, V.J. (2024), Environmental Research: Energy , Vol. 1, No. 3, July 2024. View the paper here

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The C-REM 4.0 model: A CGE model for provincial analysis of China’s carbon neutrality target
Hantan Peng, Chenfei Qu, Valerie J. Karplus, Da Zhang (2025), Energy and Climate Management , Vol. 1, Issue 1, March 2025. View the paper...

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Jan 221 min read
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How to sustain scientific collaboration amid worsening US–China relations
Valerie J. Karplus, Lan Xue, M. Granger Morgan, Kebin He, David G. Victor, Shuang-Nan Zhang (2024), Nature , 14 January 2025. View the...

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decarbSTEEL (Decarbonizing Steelmaking TechnoEconomic EvaLuation) Tool Version 2.0
Developed by LEO member Elina Hoffmann, LEO alumna Katie Jordan, and Valerie Karplus and P. Chris Pistorius, this model supports...

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Jan 221 min read
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New Funding to Support Work at CMU and WVU on the Workforce Impacts of Regional Energy Transition
Great news! "Biden-Harris Administration Through ARC Awards $16.9 Million to Grow Appalachia’s Infrastructure, Businesses, Workforce and...

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Sep 26, 20241 min read
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Risks in the design of regional hydrogen hub systems: A review and commentary
Karplus, V., Iacob, I., Moore, E., Morgan, G. (2024), Risk Analysis , 1-19. View the paper here

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Sep 19, 20241 min read
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LEO Researchers Travel to China, Featured in CMU's Community Newsletter "The Piper"
"INDABA Partnership convenes industry stakeholders in Beijing, tours decarbonized iron production." Read the full story here , featured...

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Sep 18, 20241 min read
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Moving Beyond Hype on Hydrogen
Karplus, V. and Granger, M. (2024), Issues in Science and Technology , Vol. XL, No. 4, Summer 2024. View the paper here

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Sep 18, 20241 min read
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When the Energy Transition Comes to Town
Miles, J.E., Combemale, C., Karplus, V. (2023), Issues in Science and Technology , Vol. XL, No. 1, Fall 2023. View the paper here

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Sep 18, 20241 min read
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Dynamic responses of SO2 pollution to China’s environmental inspections
Karplus, V. and Wu, M. (2023), PNAS , 120(17), e2214262120. View the paper here

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Dec 15, 20231 min read
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