Writing and research on energy storage and critical minerals
James Blair, Noel Vineyard, Alida Cantor, Ali Sharbat, Kate Berry, Dustin Mulvaney, Elizabeth Bartholomew, Ariana Firebaugh Ornelas, (2024). Lithium and Water: Hydrosocial Impacts across the Life Cycle of Energy Storage. WIREs Water, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1748
Macdonald Amoah, Benjamin Sovacool, Dustin Mulvaney, Morgan Bazilian, Richard Luarkie, Daniel Cardenas. (2024). Critical Minerals Mining and Native American Sovereignty: Comparing Case Studies of Lithium, Copper, Antimony, Nickel and Graphite Mining in the United States. Extractive Industries and Society. 20: 101557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101557
Brian Tarroja, Julie M. Schoenung, Oladele Ogunseitan, Alissa Kendall, Yang Qiu Timothy Malloy, Jens Peters, J. Mijin Cha, Dustin Mulvaney, Oliver Heidrich, and Manuel Baumann. (2024). Overcoming Barriers to Improved Decision-Making for Battery Deployment in the Clean Energy Transition. iScience. 27, 109898. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109898
B. Turley, A. Cantor, K. Berry, S. Knuth, D. Mulvaney, N. Vineyard. (2022). Emergent landscapes of renewable energy storage: Considering just transitions in the Western United States. Energy Research and Social Science, 90, 102583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102583
Mulvaney, D., Richards, R., Bazilian, M., Hensley, E., Seetharaman, S. (2021). Progress Towards a Circular Economy in Materials to Decarbonize Electricity and Mobility. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 137: 110604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2020.110604
Sovacool, B.K., S.H. Ali, M. Bazilian, B. Radley, B. Nemery, J. Okatz, D. Mulvaney. (2020). Sustainable Minerals and Metals for a Low Carbon Future. Science. 367(6473): 30–33. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6473/30
Pellow, M. A., Ambrose, H., Mulvaney, D., Betita, R., & Shaw, S. (2020). Research Gaps in Environmental Life Cycle Assessments of Lithium ion Batteries for Grid-Scale Energy Storage Systems. Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 7: e00120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susmat.2019.e00120
Mulvaney, D., and John Niles. 2018. A Review and Assessment of the Environmental Impacts of Lithium-ion Battery Electric Motorcycles. Mineta Transportation Institute, San Jose.
Ambrose, H., Mulvaney, D., Betita, R., Shaw, S. 2017. Review of Environmental Life Cycle Assessments of Lithium Ion Batteries for Grid-Scale Storage: Overview, Limitations, and Future Challenges.Electric Power Research Institute, Technical Report 2003009293, December 2017.
GRANTS
Environmental Justice Impacts Across the Life Cycle of Energy Storage. https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.abstractDetail/abstract_id/11395/report/0
Moss Landing case study: https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/water-energy-justice/case-studies/moss-landing-battery-energy-storage?authuser=0
TESTIMONY
2025. Testimony before the United States House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, Committee on Natural Resources, Oversight Hearing entitled, Now Ore Never. https://naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=416899
2023. Testimony before the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. The Role of Federal Research in Establishing a Robust U.S. Supply Chain of Critical Minerals and Materials. November 28, 2023.
2023. Testimony before the United States House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, Committee on Natural Resources, Oversight Hearing entitled, “Examining the Methodology and Structure of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Critical Minerals List.” https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=116321
2014. Expert Witness Testimony, California Public Utilities Commission, produced a report on behalf of Sierra Club in proceedings over California investor owned utility plans to comply with the electricity storage mandate that requires investor owned utilities to procure 1.325 GW of energy storage systems.