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.

Case van Genuchten

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(510) 486-4651

CMvanGenuchten@lbl.gov

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Bio

Case van Genuchten is an environmental engineer (PhD, UC Berkeley, Dec 2013) whose research focuses on creating technical solutions to improve access to safe drinking water in high- and low-income areas. Case has led or collaborated in projects to design, test and implement water treatment technologies in decentralized, rural areas of South Asia and in large-scale conventional treatment plants in Europe. One of the key components of Case's work is his avid use of synchrotron-based X-ray methods to generate molecular-scale knowledge of the reactions that underpin water and soil remediation technologies, for which he as awarded the 2020 Farrel W. Lytle Award by the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. He is currently a Berkeley Lab affiliate in the Energy Technologies Area (working with Hanna Breunig) and a Researcher in the Geochemistry Department of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.

Education

Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, UC Berkeley, 2013

Civil and Environmental Engineering, MSc, UC Berkeley, 2009

Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, San Diego State University, 2008