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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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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.

Magnus Herrlin

Magnus Herrlin is an Energy Technology Researcher in the Building and Industrial Applications Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Principal of ANCIS Incorporated. Magnus has been the Program Lead for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Data Center Energy Practitioner (DCEP) training program since 2009. This program aims to raise the standards of those involved in energy assessments of data centers. At ANCIS, he develops indoor environmental and energy solutions for mission-critical facilities. Over his 40-year career, Magnus has developed energy modeling tools and modeled energy savings in data centers and telecom facilities. He has published many papers, reports, and standards for thermal management, energy management, decarbonization, mechanical system design and operation, and IT equipment reliability. For more information on the DCEP program, how to attend training or a complete list of recognized Practitioners, please visit http://datacenters.lbl.gov/DCEP

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Email: MKHerrlin@lbl.gov

Phone: 510-206-9739

Magnus Herrlin

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Publications

2016

United States Data Center Energy Usage Report

Immersion Cooling of Electronics in DoD Installations

Air Management in Small Data Centers