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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.
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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.

Gang He

Gang He

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Contact Information

Email: GangHe@lbl.gov

Education

Energy and Resources, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2015

Climate and Society, M.A., Columbia University, 2008

Geography, B.S., Peking University, 2003

Publications

2024

Regional disparities in health and employment outcomes of China's transition to a low-carbon electricity system

Authors: Yang, Haozhe; Qian Luo; Gang He; Jiang Lin; Jeremiah X Johnson; Fernando Garcia-Menendez; Olivier Deschenes; Ana Mileva, and Ranjit Deshmukh.

04/2024

Role of Pumped Hydro Storage in China’s Power System Transition

Authors: Peng, Liqun; Gang He, and Jiang Lin.

02/2024

2023

Accelerating China's power sector decarbonization can save lives: integrating public health goals into power sector planning decisions

Authors: Luo, Qian; Fernando Garcia-Menendez; Jiang Lin; Gang He, and Jeremiah X Johnson.

09/2023

The Health and Climate Benefits of Economic Dispatch in China’s Power System

Authors: Luo, Qian; Fernando Garcia-Menendez; Haozhe Yang; Ranjit Deshmukh; Gang He; Jiang Lin, and Jeremiah X Johnson.

02/2023

2022

Large balancing areas and dispersed renewable investment enhance grid flexibility in a renewable-dominant power system in China

Authors: Lin, Jiang; Nikit Abhyankar; Gang He; Xu Liu, and Shengfei Yin.

02/2022

2021

Challenges and opportunities for carbon neutrality in China

Authors: Liu, Zhu; Zhu Deng; Gang He; Hailin Wang; Xiang Zhang; Jiang Lin; Ye Qi, and Xi Liang.

12/2021

Enhancing grid flexibility under scenarios of a renewable-dominant power system in China

Authors: Lin, Jiang; Nikit Abhyankar; Gang He; Xu Liu, and Shengfei Yin.

08/2021

2020

Rapid cost decrease of renewable energy and storage offers an opportunity to accelerate the decarbonization of China’s power system

Authors: He, Gang; Jiang Lin; Froylan Sifuentes; Xu Liu; Nikit Abhyankar, and Amol A Phadke.

03/2020

Rapid cost decrease of renewable energy and storage offers an opportunity to accelerate the decarbonization of China’s power system

Authors: He, Gang; Jiang Lin; Froylan Sifuentes; Xu Liu; Nikit Abhyankar, and Amol A Phadke.

03/2020

Enabling a Rapid and Just Transition away from Coal in China

Authors: He, Gang; Jiang Lin; Ying Zhang; Wenhua Zhang; Guilherme Larangeira; Chao Zhang; Wei Peng; Manzhi Liu, and Fuqiang Yang.

01/2020

Rapid cost decrease of renewables and storage accelerates the decarbonization of China’s power system

Authors: He, Gang; Jiang Lin; Froylan Sifuentes; Xu Liu; Nikit Abhyankar, and Amol A Phadke.

01/2020

Regional electricity demand and economic transition in China

Authors: Lin, Jiang; Xu Liu, and Gang He.

01/2020

2016

Low-Carbon City Policy Databook

Authors: Price, Lynn K; Nan Zhou; David Fridley; Stephanie Ohshita; Nina Khanna; Hongyou Lu; Lixuan Hong; Gang He; John Romankiewicz, and Hu Min.

07/2016

Economic Rebalancing and Electricity Demand in China

Authors: Lin, Jiang; Gang He, and Alexandria Yuan.

04/2016

2015

Towards uniform benefit-cost analysis for smart grid projects: an example using the Smart Grid Computational Tool

Authors: Karali, Nihan; Chris Marnay; Tyler Shiqiao Yan; Gang He; Robert J Yinger; Josh Mauzey; Kevin Clampitt, and Han Zhu.

12/2015

A Review of Commercially Available Technologies for Developing Low-Carbon Eco-cities

Authors: Zhou, Nan; Gang He; John Romankiewicz; David Fridley, and Cecilia Fino-Chen.

05/2015

Promoting Energy Efficiency as the First Fuel Through Enabling Local Government Action in China

Authors: Price, Lynn K; Nan Zhou; David Fridley; Stephanie Ohshita; Gang He; Hu Min; Yong Zhou, and Lixuan Hong.

03/2015

ELITE Cities: A Low-carbon Eco-city Evaluation Tool for China

Authors: Zhou, Nan; Gang He; Christopher J Williams, and David Fridley.

01/2015

Low Carbon Development for Cities: Methods and Measures

Authors: Ohshita, Stephanie; Nan Zhou; Lynn K Price; David Fridley; Nina Khanna; Lixuan Hong; Hongyou Lu; Cecilia Fino-Chen; Gang He, and Jinyue Yan.

Urban form as a “first fuel” for low-carbon mobility in Chinese cities: strategies for energy and carbon saving in the transport sector

Authors: Ohshita, Stephanie; David Fridley; Nina Khanna; Nan Zhou; Gang He; Lixuan Hong, and Yong Zhou.

2014

Is Your City Really Sustainable? A Tale of Jinan City Using Quantitative Low- Carbon Eco-city Tools

Authors: He, Gang; Nan Zhou; Lixuan Hong; David Fridley, and Yong Zhou.

08/2014

2013

ELITE Cities: A low-carbon Eco-city Evaluation Tool for China

Authors: He, Gang; Nan Zhou; Christopher J Williams, and David Fridley.

06/2013

2012

China’s Development of Low- Carbon Eco-Cities and Associated Indicator Systems

Authors: Zhou, Nan; Gang He, and Christopher J Williams.

07/2012

Measuring in All the Right Places: Themes in International Municipal Eco-City Index Systems

Authors: Williams, Christopher J; Nan Zhou; Gang He, and Mark D Levine.

06/2012