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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 improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-integrated building systems; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide.
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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 increasing reliability are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by techno-economic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Content to Save

40.00 %

In the U.S. alone, buildings account for 40% of energy use, much of it wasted

95.00 million dollars/yr

The amount participants saved with our Smart Energy Analytics Campaign

580.00 billion dollars

The amount our energy-efficiency research has contributed to the U.S. economy

Why?

There is no better way to save money and energy and reduce pollution than to implement strong energy-efficiency measures across the board. At the Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab Energy Technologies Area we wrote the book on how to save energy.