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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.

EETD's Mark Fischer Testifies at California Senate Hearing

May 24, 2013

EETD scientist Marc Fischer was one of several experts to testify last week at an informational hearing on short-lived climate pollutants to the California Senate Select Committee on Climate Change and AB 32 Implementation. The landmark Global Warming Solutions Act (AB-32) requires California to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Fischer described his group’s research showing that emissions of methane, an important short-lived climate pollutant, are likely larger than California’s inventory. Fischer also discussed methane’s potency as a greenhouse gas, its contribution to global tropospheric ozone pollution and options to mitigate emissions from agricultural and energy sectors.