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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 scientific challenges 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.
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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 increasing resilience are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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Our research addresses the most pressing scientific challenges of our time. From developing strategies to improve resilience to the weather, to improving the robustness of our nation's infrastructure, to supporting abundant energy solutions, our research has real-world impact across sectors.

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Our Divisions

Our researchers are organized into three research Divisions, which are dedicated to science and delivering results that are tangible. Our Divisions host expertise and facilities and foster partnership to bring energy solutions to the world.

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Latest News

Berkeley Lab Helps Utilities Understand Power Outage Costs

Jun-16-25

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are partnering with electric utilities across the co... Read more

Catalysts Get a Boost with Atomic-Level Tinkering

Jun-05-25

A research team led by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) designed an... Read more

Ballistic Ion Transport Discovery Paves the Way for Better All-Solid-State-Batteries

May-21-25

A team of researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have laid the foundations in a study publish... Read more

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Recent Publications

Schiller, Steven R, and Myles T Collins."DOE Energy Innovator Fellows Informational Webinar: Program Design and Evaluation." (2025).

Podpora, Adam, Cody Matthews, David Rearden, Calvin Monson, Kathryn Chelminksi, and Lisa C Schwartz." Clearing the Fog on Interconnection Queues: Increasing Data Access, Transparency, and Security." (2025).

Shah, Nihar, Nina Khanna, Nihan Karali, Akshay Sharma, Chao Ding, and Won Young Park."An Assessment of the Global Cooling Supply Chain and Implications for Critical Minerals." (2025).

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