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.
Publications
News +
For media inquiries,
please contact ETA
Interim Communications Manager
Kiran Julin

kjulin@lbl.gov
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.

Organizational Charts

Organizational Charts and Finding Staff

Energy Technologies Area organizational chart

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Find Division Staff

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Further Assistance

The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is made up of three Divisions, listed below. Please visit the website for that Division or contact the Senior Administrator listed if you need help.

Building Technology & Urban Systems
Principal Administrator: Erin Beardsley Harbin
(510) 486-7877
EEHarbin@lbl.gov
Organizational chart: buildings.lbl.gov/division-structure
Staff list: buildings.lbl.gov/people

Energy Analysis & Environmental Impacts
Principal Administrator: Katie Kirbus
(510) 486-6650
KVKirbus@lbl.gov
Organizational chart: energyanalysis.lbl.gov/organizational-chart
Staff List: energyanalysis.lbl.gov/staff

Energy Storage & Distributed Resources
Program Manager: Kate Britton
510-495-8894
KMBritton@lbl.gov
Organizational chart: appliedenergyscience.lbl.gov/organizational-chart
Staff List: appliedenergyscience.lbl.gov/staff