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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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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.

Energy Efficiency Collaboration Workshop

November 29, 2016

This collaborative workshop, co-sponsored by SENER, the CONACYT-SENER Energy Sustainability Fund (ESF), the Energy Working Group of the UC-Mexico Initiative, and Berkeley Lab's Mexico Energy Initiative, was held November 29 - December 1, 2016, at Casa de la Universidad de California in Mexico City. The event brought together researchers from 10 Mexican institutions, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab to develop research proposal concept notes aimed at helping accelerate the transition to energy efficient buildings and cities in Mexico.

The agenda of discussions covered multiple areas, including energy efficiency strategies for commercial buildings, HVAC technology, policy and market promotion, buildings energy efficiency policy diagnostics; water-energy efficiency in municipal utilities, procurement support for deployment of efficient high quality street lighting and building codes and cities.

Participating Mexican institutions included UNAM (School of Engineering and Institute for Renewable Energy), Tec de Monterrey, Tecnológico Nacional de Mexico, National Commission for the Efficient Use of Energy (CONUEE), National Institute for Electricity and Clean Energy (INEEL), Mario Molina Center, Technological Institute for Construction (ITC), Association for Norms and Certification (ANCE) and the World Resources Institute (WRI).