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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.

The 80% Solution for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in California

April 5, 2012

An article just published in Issues in Science and Technology, a journal of the National Academy of Sciences, summarizes what California will need to do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent below the 1990 level. Jane Long, co-chair of the California’s Energy Future committee, and Jeff Greenblatt, a scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Energy Technologies Division, discuss the results of the California Energy Futures Project of the California Council of Science and Technology. They write “the technology and knowledge exist to take the state most of the way to its ambitious 2050 goal, but more research will be needed in a few key areas to achieve full success.” The report, "California's Energy Future - The View to 2050," was released in 2011.

Download the paper "The 80% Solution: Radical Carbon Emission Cuts for California."

Get the full-length report "California's Energy Future - The View to 2050" from the California Council for Science and Technology.