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.
Publications
News +
For media inquiries,
please contact ETA
Interim Communications Manager
Kiran Julin

[email protected]
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.

Rachel Foushee

Senior Administrator

510-486-5171

[email protected]

eta.lbl.gov/people/Rachel-Foushee

Download Portrait Photo

Awards

Spot: CalFlexHub Annual Symposium Team - April 17th 2024

Erin Harbin, Rachel Foushee and Rich Brown have provided exceptional support in the 2023 CalFlexHub Annual Symposium which was instrumental to the success of this critical and impactful event.

Spot: Rachel Foushee, Erin Harbin, Katie Kirbus - October 19th 2022

For successfully coordinating funding, logistics and administrative procedures to allow tens of people to attend ACEEE summer study 2022.

Spot: Marie Butson, Rachel Foushee, Angela Green, Ellen Thomas - May 27th 2022

Providing superb logistical support key to the success of the LBNL Resilient Cooling Workshop 2022.

Spot: Rachel Foushee - May 10th 2022

For exemplary work preparing final reports on Circadian Lighting and Pricing for EPRI and SCE.

Spot: Angela Green, Rachel Foushee, Ellen Thomas - November 26th 2019

Tremendous planning, organizing and execution efforts demonstrated as BTUS underwent a major renovation project.

Related Links:

Angela Green

Rachel Foushee

Ellen Thomas