Research Themes +
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.
Strategic Initiatives +
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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About Us +
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.

Xiaochen Tang

Principal Scientific Engineer Associate

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Bio

Dr. Xiaochen Tang is Principal Scientific Engineering Associate in the Energy Technologies Area of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her work focuses on understanding indoor chemical sources and reactions that affect indoor air quality and potentially harm human health, characterizing performance of air cleaning technologies, such as air cleaners and photocatalytic materials, and evaluating novel “cool” building envelope materials in connection with LBNL’s Heat Island Program.

Before joining the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impact Division in 2016, Dr. Tang was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, studying the impact of human occupants on indoor air quality and chemistry. Dr. Tang earned her Ph.D. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from University of California, Riverside.

Awards

2018 Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement: Societal Impact - August 8th 2018

This multidisciplinary and cross-divisional team is honored for decade-long research accomplishments culminating in their discovery that thirdhand smoke, a new tobacco hazard, increases lung cancer risk in mice. This achievement is vital for protecting and improving public health nationwide.