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.

Tae Hwan Lim

Postdoctoral Researcher

734-834-4578

TaeLim@lbl.gov

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Bio

Dr. Tae Hwan Lim is a postdoctoral scholar in the Sustainable Energy and Environmental Systems (SEES) Department in the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts (EAEI) Division. Lim specializes in energy and carbon management technologies, including negative emissions technologies such as direct air capture (DAC). He studies techno-economic feasibility of emerging strategies and technologies and assesses their potential environmental impacts by building techno-economic and life-cycle models. Lim integrates insights from his systems-level study with experimental work to explore innovative concepts for decarbonization and carbon removal. This includes designing a novel DAC concept that could operate near the thermodynamic energy limits.

Education

Physics, BA, University of California Berkeley, 2009

Astrophysics, BA, University of California Berkeley, 2009

Mechanical Engineering, PhD, University of Michigan, 2022