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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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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.

BEST Center National Institute 2024 Presentations Available

January 16, 2024

Recordings from the annual Building Efficiency for Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center National Institute, held January 4–5, are now available. The theme of this year’s two-day, online event was “Less Carbon, More Action! Strategies for Better Buildings & Tech Education.”

The 2024 National Institute, which was co-hosted by BEST and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), brought together college faculty, students, and technical professionals aspiring to improve their knowledge and application of high-performance building operations. The BEST Center is supported by the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education program.

Mary Ann Piette, Berkeley Lab’s associate laboratory director for the Energy Technologies Area (ETA), kicked off the institute’s second day with a talk about national strategies to decarbonize the buildings sector. Other topics on the agenda included heat pump water heater technology, residential electrification, building performance standards and strategies, demand flexibility, smart buildings, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Guideline 36 implementation, and more.

To watch recordings from the 2024 Institute, visit tinyurl.com/2024NationalInstitute to register and gain access. Registration and recordings will be available until February 28, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. EST.