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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 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.
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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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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.

WOMEN IN ENERGY: Calling Clean Energy Innovators Cyclotron Road Open Call

October 12, 2015

While women make up 48 percent of the workforce in the US, they hold only 24 percent of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) jobs. About 40 percent of men with STEM college degrees work in STEM jobs, whereas only 26 percent of women with STEM degrees work in STEM jobs. STEM jobs pay well. STEM skills are also important for innovation. For America to become more competitive in today’s global economy, we need workers with skill sets that help to propel our nation forward.

As Máire Geoghegan-Quinn notes in the foreword to the European Commission's She Figures 2012: Gender in Research and Innovation "imbalance in research is not a self-correcting phenomenon."

Cyclotron Road is building a new model to advance breakthrough energy technologies. Their purpose is to support critical technology development for projects while helping successful applicants to identify the most suitable business models, partners, and financing mechanisms for long term impact.

By joining Cyclotron Road, innovators receive a salary and seed funding, support from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab facilities and experts, targeted help with critical technology and manufacturing challenges, and connections to a deep network of academics, engineers, entrepreneurs, and industry experts who serve as mentors, collaborators, and commercial partners.

The application for Cyclotron Road's second cohort is now open. Cyclotron Road is looking for the best, brightest, most driven energy innovators to join our second cohort.

I am hopeful that this post will spur interest, submissions and the successful applications of women working in STEM professions and the clean tech innovation space! Visit cyclotronroad.org/apply to learn more.