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Pivoting to Tackle the World’s Most Critical Challenges
Transforming Ideas into Solutions
In this refresh to our 2017 Strategic Plan, we aim to accelerate our research to provide affordable clean
energy to all while accomplishing deep economy-wide decarbonization to avoid a greater than 2°C degree
rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity’s
resilience to more extreme weather volatility. We also identify and respond to the clear and present need
to bring negative emissions technologies (NETs) — methodologies that directly remove carbon from the
atmosphere — into reality at a rapid pace. We have confidence in this approach because of the progress
that has been made over the last several years across critical sectors:
• Building researchers in ETA partnered with
the DOE’s Building Technologies Office
to architect the Grid-interactive Efficient
Buildings (GEB) Roadmap and served as
their strategic partner to facilitate Connected
Communities at scale.
• Transportation researchers in ETA developed
enabling technologies and analysis
tools to co-optimize the performance of
transportation and electric grid networks,
and to plan for the charging infrastructure
needs for future electric vehicles.
• The Smart Energy Analytics Campaign
implemented more than 40 different energy
management information system (EMIS)
products across 6,500 buildings owned by
104 organizations, representing more than
567 million square feet and saving upwards
of $95 million annually while creating the
largest-ever database of building analytics.
• Transportation energy and analysis tools
enable us to understand the implications
of emerging megatrends — electric and
autonomous vehicles, personal mobility,
and e-commerce — and help to quantify
the health and climate impacts of those
technology shifts.
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• ETA’s work to reinvent the grid has been
persistent and impactful. From full-scale
deployment of automated demand response
technologies to market characterization
studies that benchmark wind and solar prices
and their adoption trends, we have defined
the metrics that will enable more diverse and
distributed sources of power on the grid.
