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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.

MEI accepted as member of editorial board of SENER’s Energy Efficiency Bulletin

November 1, 2018

Dr. Michael McNeil, Director of Berkeley Lab's MEI has been invited to serve as a member of the Editorial Board of the Monthly E-Bulletin on Energy Efficiency Activities (Boletin Electronico Mensual de Difusion de Acciones de Eficiencia Energetica), published and distributed by Mexico's Energy Secretariat (SENER). The decision was made by current members of the Editorial Board and was communicated officially to MEI by Santiago Creuheras Diaz, General Director for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability at SENER.

The Bulletin disseminates information on actions and progress by different programs implemented in the country to achieve the goal of 1.9% reduction of final energy consumption in the period 2016-2030. The objective is part of Mexico's Energy Strategy to promote the Use of Clean Energy and Fuels. Members of the Bulletin's Editorial Board include the National Commission for the Efficient Use of Energy (CONUEE), the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change (INECC), the National Institute of Electricity and Clean Energy (INEEL) and the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), in addition to government agencies of the energy sector, industry associations and international cooperation organizations.

As part of its role as member of the Bulletin's Editorial Board, MEI will provide input on topics to be highlighted in coming months, such as development of norms for energy efficiency and residential lighting.