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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.

U.S.-China Ecopartnerships Website is Open, Seeks Private and Public Sector Partners

May 8, 2013

A select group of public, private and non-profit organizations from the U.S. and China have joined together in EcoPartnerships to pilot best practices in promoting economic growth, energy security and environmental sustainability.

EcoPartnerships are cooperative relationships between Chinese and U.S. entities who jointly demonstrate and share best practices that promote economic growth, energy security and environmental sustainability. Sub-national entities are often the best laboratories for testing new and innovative approaches, so EcoPartnerships are comprised of at least one U.S. and one Chinese participant from any of the following:

Private enterprise (companies, industry organizations);
Academia;
Non-governmental organizations; and/or
States, counties, cities

Each EcoPartnership develops and executes an Implementation Plan that defines specific actions (e.g. policies, technologies, tools) to be taken in one or more of the following focus areas:

Clean Air
Clean Water
Clean and Efficient Transportation
Clean, Efficient, and Secure Electricity
Energy Efficiency
Protected Areas/Nature Reserves
Wetlands Conservation

To find out more, visit the Ecopartnerships website at the address below.