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.

Federal Aggregated Solar Procurement Pilot: GreenGov Spotlight Communities Webinar, October 1

September 26, 2013

October 1, 2013

10:00 to 11:30 AM

Learn how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, General Services Administration, Forest Service, Department of Energy Federal Energy Management Program, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and U.S. Coast Guard are working together to purchase renewable energy produced from solar panels on rooftops, ground-mount locations, and/or carports at their facilities. This renewable energy procurement project in Northern California brings together multiple federal agencies to demonstrate that combined procurement offers economies of scale, resulting in lower electricity bills for individual sites, and increased renewable energy production. The project also attempts to reduce internal agency overhead costs by sharing procurement and project management resources and is structured to be replicable across the nation.