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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.

Berkeley Lab Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Research Center of Korea

November 7, 2013

Representatives of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Research Center of Korea (GIR) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore potential areas of collaboration. For Berkeley Lab, the MOU is centered in its Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD). The areas of potential cooperation include energy sector planning, policy analysis, energy modeling. GIR and Berkeley Lab will explore expanding their existing collaborations in energy sector assessment for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and green technology deployment, policy analysis, and energy modeling for greenhouse gas emissions abatement. The two organizations also have a mutual interest in studying energy consumption behavior and technology adoption in developing countries.