Research Themes +
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.
Strategic Initiatives +
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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Interim Communications Manager
Kiran Julin

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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.

Ambereen Shaffie

Affiliate

(913) 634-9764

AShaffie@lbl.gov

eta.lbl.gov/people/Ambereen-Shaffie

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Bio

Ms. Shaffie is the President and Managing Partner of Shaffie Law and Policy, based in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. She practices environmental law and policy, most recently focused on enabling the implementation of environmental policies, including the the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol. Her areas of expertise include energy efficiency, power sector transformation, short-lived climate pollutants - particularly HFCs, Superfund law, and environmental policy. She has managed and implemented environmental projects in multiple countries and continents.

Previously, Ms. Shaffie litigated federal environmental cases focused on the cleanup of large landfills in the United States, and prior to that, she clerked at the D.C. Superior Court. Ms. Shaffie holds an LLM in International and Comparative Law from the American University in Cairo, Egypt, a JD from the University of Kansas School of Law, and a BA in Economics and International Studies from the University of Kansas. In Egypt, she served as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, and focused her Master's on intellectual property law and digital platforms to bring innovations to market.