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.

Brian Heimberg

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BSHeimberg@lbl.gov

eta.lbl.gov/people/Brian-Heimberg

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Bio

Brian Heimberg is a program manager in the China Energy Group of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the Operations Manager for the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center, Building Energy Efficiency Consortium.

Prior to joining LBNL, Brian Heimberg co-founded the Beijing based ecological planning firm Bluepath and was involved in developing large-scale Eco-cities and low-carbon districts. Notable projects include master planning for the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city and Dongtan Eco-city, development and implementation of first- and second-generation comprehensive sustainable city key performance indicator systems, and multi-lateral technical assistance for green building codes and administration.

Brian Heimberg’s recent work includes advising emerging growth clean-technology companies in the United States and China with strategic and private financing needs. Other international entrepreneurial ventures include culinary tourism, green building materials trading, and sustainable agriculture advocacy.

Brian Heimberg is a UC Berkeley graduate with a self-designed Interdisciplinary Studies major entitled, "Food Politics." He lived in China between 2006 and 2011 and speaks fluent Mandarin.