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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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.

Alecia Ward

Alecia Ward

Leader: Program Development Department

Business Development Manager 3

510-486-4540

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eta.lbl.gov/people/Alecia-Ward

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Bio

Alecia Wards is the Leader of the Program Development Office in the Energy Technologies Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Awards

2014 Director's Awards for Exceptional Achievement: Operations - November 3rd 2015

Achievement in operational effectiveness, process re-engineering or improvement, resource management and efficiency, or partnerships across organizational/departmental boundaries.

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Director’s 2014 Lifetime and Exceptional Achievement Awards Announced

2014 Chairman's Award, Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (MEEA) - January 21st 2014

The Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (MEEA) recognized its three former executive directors, one of whom is EETD's Alecia Ward, with the organization’s 2014 Chairman’s Award. Bestowed each year at the Midwest Energy Solutions Conference, the Chairman’s Award is given to an organization or individual exhibiting outstanding commitment to the advancement of MEEA initiatives and energy efficiency in the Midwest.

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Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance press release

Publications

2000

Market Transformation Efforts for Residential Energy Efficient Windows: An Update of National Activities

Authors: Ward, Alecia; Margaret Suozzo, and Joseph H Eto.

08/2000