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.

Jihoon Chung

Jihoon Chung is Ph.D. Candidate of Built Ecologies program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and works as Research Assistant at Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE), where he researches developing a digital twin platform for co-simulation ecosystem using Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Internet of Things (IoT), ontology technologies. He is currently working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a research affiliate and worked at Autodesk Research as an intern. He holds Bachelor of Architecture, M.S. in Architectural Engineering (concentration: Construction IT) from Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea), and M.S. in Architecture (concentration: Design Technology) from RPI. Prior to joining CASE, he explored a framework for technical specifications of 3D concrete printers at Building Informatics Group in Yonsei University and published several journal papers and proceedings including Automation in Construction, ISARC: The International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction, and so on. Furthermore, he has experience in co-founding a startup and an organization with startup awards from the Asan Nanum Foundation (South Korea) and Yonsei University.

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Email: JihoonChung@lbl.gov