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.

Strategic Initiatives

Strategic Initiatives

Below are gateways to ETA's ambitious Strategic Plan, which outlines our research goals for the next ten years.

The top left tile will take you straight to the entire Strategic Plan.

The remaining tiles link directly to each Strategic Initiative: Resilience, Energy Storage, Integrated Energy Systems, Water-Energy Nexus, and Science for Manufacturing.

ETA Strategic Plan

ETA's bold Strategic Plan is a blueprint for success and a way to address critical areas identified for research. Click to see Strategic Plan.

Resilience

There is an urgent need in our nation for resilience planning to bounce back after natural disasters, pandemics and climate-related stressors.

Energy Storage

ETA is prioritizing research about the next generation of energy storage technologies to accelerate decarbonization and improve energy efficiency throughout the economy.

Integrated Energy Systems

Integrated Energy Systems priorities include sustainable transportation, urban building energy infrastructure and grid modernization.

Water–Energy Nexus

This Initiative will contribute to DOE's goal to create more resilient, coupled water-energy systems.

Science of Manufacturing

ETA's research goal is to develop advanced manufacturing technologies to enable low-carbon solutions to reach the marketplace faster.