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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.

Nick Karki

Senior Research Associate

(510) 486-5637

UKarki@lbl.gov

eta.lbl.gov/people/Nick-Karki

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Bio

As a Sr. Research Associate, Mr. Nick Karki conducts research to support climate resilience in the U.S. manufacturing sector. His projects include:

Manufacturing water and wastewater management, and their energy implications
GHG emissions accounting through carbon and energy reporting protocols for manufacturing processes, such as power, process heat, and water-related systems
Manufacturing sector carbon abatement through energy efficiency, fuel-switching, and newer technologies
Industrial energy management practices with regard to 50001 Superior Energy Performance and 50001 Ready

Mr. Karki received his Master's in Industrial Engineering with a focus on manufacturing from West Virginia University.

Education

Industrial Engineering, Master of Science, West Virginia University, 2020

Publications

2022

U.S. Industrial and Commercial Motor System Market Assessment Report Volume 3: Energy Saving Opportunity

Authors: Rao, Prakash; Paul Sheaffer; Yuting Chen; Unique Karki, and Patrick Fitzgerald.

07/2022