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.

Shengcun Ma

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Contact Information

Email: shengcun@lbl.gov

Phone: 323-942-7342

Awards

2024 R&D 100 Award: New Electrode Material for Cleaner Water - August 8th 2024

Selenium pollution that is found in bodies of water around the world can be harmful to humans, animals, and aquatic systems. Current methods of biological treatment for wastewater that contains selenium are expensive, sensitive to water co-contaminants, and can produce unwanted byproducts. Berkeley Lab scientists have developed an electrode material made with iron and nickel that can effectively remove selenium through the process of direct electrochemical reduction. The material performs better than the traditional electrodes used in the process and is cheaper, making it a promising alternative for safe, sustainable water treatment.

The development team is led by Wei Tong and Shengcun Ma.

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/08/08/rd-100-awards-honor-two-berkeley-lab-innovations/