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.

Impacts

Research Themes

Tackling the Climate Crisis

The need for science solutions to the climate crisis is more urgent than ever. Increasing natural disasters, in both volume and intensity, a global pandemic, and the escalating uncertainty of a changing climate convince us that we will need a collaborative, multi-pronged and evolving approach.

Research Areas

Decarbonizing Via Integrated Energy Systems

ETA is at the forefront of enabling and scaling a fully integrated energy infrastructure.

Storage: The Key to Climate Solutions

ETA is developing cost-competitive energy storage technologies that increase renewable grid penetration and grid resilience.

Advancing Water-Energy Systems

ETA is a leader in national efforts to build more resilient and coupled water-energy systems.

Energy Equity & Environmental Justice

Energy justice is key to our research since vulnerable populations often endure the brunt of climate change, poor air quality and pollution.

Prioritizing Energy Efficiency

ETA’s energy-efficiency innovations have created a legacy of impact that has benefited people worldwide.

Innovation Economy

We pride ourselves on ensuring that our research makes its way to the marketplace and into the hands of consumers.

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