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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.

Reducing Waste in Residential Hot Water Distribution Systems: Field Study Recruitment for San Francisco Bay Area/Sacramento Residents - Respond by 6/30/2013

June 10, 2013

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is conducting a study to explore the efficiency of hot water distribution systems in California residences. You’ve likely had the experience of waiting for shower water to get hot? Until the shower reaches a comfortable temperature, the water goes down the drain. Both water and energy could be saved! Information about hot water and natural gas use in homes will enable the development of effective conservation strategies for both energy and water. To be eligible to take part in this study, you must be at least 18 years of age, live in a San Francisco Bay Area or Sacramento area home that you own with a single residential water heater, speak English in your home, and have internet access over which the monitoring system can transmit data.

If you are interested in participating, go to https://sites.google.com/a/lbl.gov/hotwater/home and submit the web form by 6/30/2013. Participants who complete the study will be provided a total of $100.