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Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Energy Secretary Chu's Copenhagen Talk References EETD Research

December 18, 2009

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu's talk at the Climate Conference in Copenhagen contained several slides referencing research being performed in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division here at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Home Energy Saver—Slide 13 references the Home Energy Saver, an online energy auditing tool to help homeowners, and now professional energy auditors, do an evaluation of your own home's energy use and create a list of customized energy efficiency recommendations. See Home Energy Saver, and Home Energy Saver Pro.

Berkeley Lab scientists are conducting near-zero energy buildings research now—see Environmental Energy Technologies Division News, Vol. 8, No. 2.

Energy-efficient lighting for the developing world—Slides 25 and 26 address lighting efficiency research. The Lumina Project mentioned in slide 26 is based at Berkeley Lab.

Energy efficient appliance and equipment standards, slides 28 and 29, have been analyzed by Berkeley Lab scientists since the 1970s, with the results of these analyses informing the work of the Department of Energy, the state of California and other entities ever since.