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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.

Ashok Gadgil Wins European Inventor Award for UV Waterwork

May 26, 2011

The European Patent Office bestowed the European Inventor Award on Berkeley Lab scientist Ashok Gadgil for UV Waterworks, an innovative portable water purification device based on ultraviolet light. Along with co-inventor Vikas Garud, Gadgil received the award at a ceremony in Budapest today. The two were selected as winners in the non-European category. The lost-cost device has been licensed by WaterHealth International and has been installed in more than 10 countries around the world and has brought clean water to more than 2 million people. "(The winners) have not only contributed to the economic development of their companies and research institutions, but have also helped to create jobs and improve people's daily lives," said EPO President Benoît Battistelli.