• Activating Tomorrow's Technology Leaders

    Since 2015, fellows have collaborated with more than 60 Berkeley Lab scientists, and the organizations they’ve founded have raised more than $150 million in follow-on funding, hired more than 135 employees, and introduced new products across industries

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  • Improving Indoor Air Quality with Smart Ventilation

    Our pioneering indoor air quality and smart ventilation research identified thirdhand smoke as a health hazard and is making indoor spaces safer and more healthy for building occupants.

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  • Building Better Batteries

    Working closely with other National Labs, the government and industry, our cutting edge battery and energy storage research helps to build better, more energy-efficient batteries.

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  • Improving Building Efficiency and Comfort

    Our scientists are developing methods of applying fault detection and diagnostics to buildings to rapidly diagnose problems that need to be fixed, improving energy efficiency and comfort for occupants.

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  • Analyzing Energy Impacts

    We research how buildings use energy, their energy consumption patterns, energy efficiency standards and indoor air quality in our Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division. 

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  • Improving Energy Storage

    We're improving grid storage capability for energy from renewable sources, researching smart-grid real-time monitoring and response and improving electricity distribution reliability in our Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division. 

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  • Testing Systems at FLEXLAB®

    The Facility for Low Energy eXperiments allows users to develop and test energy-efficient building and grid technologies

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News

Lynn Price, senior advisor for the Lab's International Energy Analysis Department and the China Energy Group
Seven ETA Researchers Honored at Lab Director Awards Oct 20, 2020
Seven researchers in the Energy Technologies Area have recently been honored with prestigious Director's Awards at Lawrence...
Graphic: How EMIS work. Credit: Laura Myers
Berkeley Lab Building Efficiency Campaign Drives $95M in Annual Energy Savings Oct 20, 2020
One hundred and four U.S. companies, schools, governments, and institutions are taking their building energy savings to a new...
The Shield the Bay team worked with health care workers to design their face shield. (Credit: Alameda Health System)
Granderson Helps Design Face Shields for Hospital Staff Oct 12, 2020
With a day job as deputy of research for Building Technology and Urban Systems Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...
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Recent Publications

Jacob, Tabeel A, Ethan P Matty, and Brian M Fronk. "Comparison of R404A condensation heat transfer and pressure drop with low global warming potential replacement candidates R448A and R452A." International Journal of Refrigeration 116 (2020) 9 - 22.
Jacob, Tabeel A, and Brian M Fronk. "In-Tube condensation of zeotropic refrigerant R454C from superheated vapor to subcooled liquid." Science and Technology for the Built Environment 26.9 (2020) 1177 - 1190.
Jin, Ling, Alina Lazar, James Sears, Annika Todd, Alex Sim, Kesheng Wu, Hung-Chia Yang, and C. Anna Spurlock. "Clustering Life Course to Understand the Heterogeneous Effects of Life Events, Gender, and Generation on Habitual Travel Modes." IEEE Access (2020) 1 - 1.
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