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.

Christopher Bolduc

Rulemaking Project Leader: Energy Efficiency Standards Department

Affiliate

(647) 832-4021

CABolduc@lbl.gov

eta.lbl.gov/people/Christopher-Bolduc

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Bio

Expertise: Energy, environmental and consumer economics, electric power systems, application architecture, and database administration; 10 years of experience with the Energy Efficiency Standards Department working on conservation standards, including distribution transformers and small electric motors. Numerous collaborations with other departments within ETA including electricity tariff analysis and end-use load monitoring.

Publications

2011

Max Tech Appliance Design: Potential for Maximizing U.S. Energy Savings through Standards

Authors: Garbesi, Karina; Louis-Benoit Desroches; Christopher A. Bolduc; Gabriel Burch; Griffin Hosseinzadeh, and Seth Saltiel.

07/2011

2006

The Tariff Analysis Project: A Database and Analysis Platform for Electricity Tariffs

Authors: Coughlin, Katie; Richard M. White; Christopher A. Bolduc; Diane C. Fisher, and Gregory J. Rosenquist.

05/2006

2005

Documentation of Calculation Methodology, Input Data, and Infrastructure for the Home Energy Saver Web Site

Authors: Pinckard, Margaret J.; Richard E. Brown; Evan Mills; James D. Lutz; Mithra M. Moezzi; Celina S. Atkinson; Christopher A. Bolduc; Gregory K. Homan, and Katie Coughlin.

07/2005