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.

Matt Sulzer

Visiting Faculty

(510) 486-6990

MSulzer@lbl.gov

eta.lbl.gov/people/Matt-Sulzer

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Bio

Prof. Matthias Sulzer is a senior researcher at the Urban Energy System Lab at Empa, an institute of the ETH Domain. He also teaches at ETH Zurich and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. In addition, he holds an appointment at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in the USA. He studied building systems engineering at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and completed his master's degree at the Universities of New South Wales and Sydney. Since then, he has implemented many entrepreneurial and innovative ideas. Today, he conducts research in the field of urban energy systems and supports various start-ups. (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2094-2460)

Education

Building technology, Bachelor degree, University of Applied Science Lucerne, School of Engineering, 1995

MBA, energy economics, Master degree, Universities of New South Wales and University of Sydney, 1999

Didactic for lecturers, University of Applied Science Lucerne, 2005/2013