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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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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.

Webinar: Integrating Experimental Design Into Your Program, August 24

August 24, 2011

Please join the Better Buildings Program of the U.S. Department of Energy and experts from the Environmental Energy Technologies Department for a webinar in which we will discuss approaches to integrating experimental design into energy efficiency programs.

Integrating Experimental Design Into Your Program
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM PDT

Click here to Register for the Webinar

Experimental design is often used to increase certainty about the actual impacts of a program — and what strategies are worth repeating going forward. There are many ways to add additional rigor to the "experiments" funded by the Recovery Act. This webinar will review some experimental design techniques and give examples of how they might fit into your programs.