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

kjulin@lbl.gov
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.

Alison O'Connor-Korb

Administrator: Energy Storage & Distributed Resources Division

Administrator

(510) 486-6369

aok@lbl.gov

eta.lbl.gov/people/Alison-O'Connor-Korb

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Awards

Spot: Alison O'Connor-Korb - September 01st 2023

For Alison's outstanding contributions and tireless efforts leading to the successful hosting of the 2023 M2FCT Biannual Meeting.

Spot: Alison O'Connor-Korb - May 04th 2023

Excellent contributions and tireless efforts leading to successful hosting of the H2New Meeting

Spot: Alison O'Connor-Korb - April 18th 2023

Lead team training on affiliate processing and created reference document which can be utilized by the admin team.

Spot: Elizabeth Coyne, Alison O'Connor-Korb - October 19th 2022

Outstanding contributions and tireless efforts leading to successful hosting of the M2FCT Program Review.

Spot: Alison O'Connor-Korb - May 13th 2022

Thanks to Alison, the Energy Conversion hires were completed in a timely manner.