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.

Erin Bertiglia

Contact Information

Email: ELBertiglia@lbl.gov

Phone: 415-309-1938

Awards

Spot: Strategic Plan Refresh Team - May 3rd 2021

For exceptional service and professionalism in the design, development and production of ETA's 2021 Strategic Plan Refresh.

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Spot: Jodi Bellacicco, Erin Bertiglia - November 26th 2019

For successful leadership and collaboration in technical support designing, architecting, beta-testing, and launching Berkeley Lab's enterprise-wide ReMI (Salesforce) system

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Jodi Bellacicco

Spot: Natasha Nelson, Diane Douglas, Anita Estner, Erin Bertiglia, Sara Lee, Ellen Thomas, Karyn Houston - May 17th 2019

For exceptional support, management and execution of the 2019 Rosenfeld Symposium.

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Spot: Diane Douglas, Erin Bertiglia, Anita Estner, Karyn Houston, Natasha Nelson, Judith Novak and Laura Wong - January 23rd 2017

For exceptional support of the 2016 ETA Area Review.

Spot: Jodi Bellacicco and Erin Bertiglia - January 23rd 2017

For exceptional service to ETA and LBNL in the development of ETA's Salesforce CRM.

Spot: Erin Bertiglia, Karyn Houston and Natasha Nelson - January 13th 2017

For outstanding support in the completion of ETA's first Strategic Plan.