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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.

Power Consumption Report Released

July 6, 2018

The United States and China have been cooperating since 2016 under the Power Consumption, Demand and Competition Cooperation to identify solutions to advance key elements of China’s comprehensive market reforms to foster a competitive, transparent and sustainable electric power sector in China. Co-led by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Energy Resources and China’s National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration, in coordination with their respective government agencies, the Cooperation’s activities are implemented by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s China Energy Group with specialized assistance from U.S. power sector experts. The Cooperation’s policy recommendations report (“the Report”) addresses a suite of inter-related pilot approaches on three topics:

Promoting electric power market competition and direct power trading in Guangdong: To help formulate market rules, policies, and oversight mechanisms supporting overall power sector improvement, while promoting incorporation of clean energy resources in the market.
Increasing the local consumption and reducing curtailment of renewable energy in Jilin: To reduce provincial wind curtailment through measures focused on making the province’s electricity and heating sectors more flexible to accommodate wind generation.
Enhancing demand response (DR) and promoting demand-side resources in Jiangsu and Shanghai: To develop an enabling policy framework and market mechanisms that encourage and expand DR participation for industrial, commercial, and residential customers and to design electricity markets that can elicit value from DR.