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.

Kate Britton

Kate Britton

Program Manager: Energy Storage & Distributed Resources Division

Program Manager 2

(510) 495-8894

KMBritton@lbl.gov

eta.lbl.gov/people/Kate-Britton

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Awards

Spot: Brendan McGovern and Katherine Britton - February 03rd 2021

For service above and beyond in launching the M2FCT consortium.

Spot: Kate Britton - August 10th 2018

Kate played the key role in coordinating the 8500 Q3 Review and Seedling Project Meeting. This meeting involved DOE PMs and researchers from many R&D institutions.

Spot: Kate Britton - January 23rd 2017

For your efforts with organizing and producing posters for the ESDR Division poster session for the ETA 2017 Annual Review.

Spot: Kate Britton - December 02nd 2015

In recognition of her exemplary work leading the administrative team, as well as providing direction to the conference committee for the 2015 Bay Area Battery Summit. The success of this meeting is a testament to the effort she demonstrated and the high quality of her work.

2014 Director's Awards for Exceptional Achievement: Operations - November 03rd 2015

Achievement in operational effectiveness, process re-engineering or improvement, resource management and efficiency, or partnerships across organizational/departmental boundaries.

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