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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.

Salma Elmallah

Salma Elmallah

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510-486-6032

salmae@lbl.gov

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Bio

Salma is a Graduate Student Research Assistant in the Electricity Markets and Policy Department and a PhD student in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. Her work at LBNL spans projects on community and property value impacts of renewable energy development and analysis of solar and storage systems. She has an MS in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta.

Publications

2023

Shedding light on large-scale solar impacts: An analysis of property values and proximity to photovoltaics across six U.S. states

Authors: Elmallah, Salma; Ben Hoen; K. Sydny Fujita; Dana Robson, and Eric Brunner.

03/2023

2022

Frontlining energy justice: Visioning principles for energy transitions from community-based organizations in the United States

Authors: Elmallah, Salma; Tony G. Reames, and C. Anna Spurlock.

12/2022

Equitable deep decarbonization: A framework to facilitate energy justice-based multidisciplinary modeling

Authors: Spurlock, C. Anna; Salma Elmallah, and Tony Reames.

10/2022

“After the leases are signed, it's a done deal”: Exploring procedural injustices for utility-scale wind energy planning in the United States

Authors: Elmallah, Salma, and Joseph Rand.

07/2022

Drivers and energy justice implications of renewable energy project siting in the United States

Authors: O'Shaughnessy, Eric; Ryan H. Wiser; Ben Hoen; Joseph Rand, and Salma Elmallah.

07/2022

2021

Behind the Meter Solar+Storage: Market data and trends

Authors: Barbose, Galen L.; Salma Elmallah, and Will Gorman.

07/2021

2019

Commercial PV Property Characterization: An Analysis of Solar Deployment Trends in Commercial Real Estate

Authors: Hoen, Ben; Joseph Rand, and Salma Elmallah.

10/2019