Energy Use
Developing low-emission vehicles, cleaner burning fuels, high-performance buildings, and sustainable transit systems is a crucial component of the overall effort to address our energy problems. UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab scientists and engineers conduct pioneering research on energy use, some of which is featured here.
- Berkeley Institute of the Environment
BIE brings together diverse UC Berkeley programs focused on solving complex environmental problems in new and innovative ways.- Urban Sustainability Initiative
- Roundtables and Working Groups on transportation and climate change
- CoolClimate Calculator
- Center for the Built Environment (CBE)
CBE is a collaboration with diverse, prominent industry leaders aimed at improving the design and operation of buildings to reduce energy and improve occupant comfort, health and productivity. Research program areas include indoor environmental quality, building HVAC systems, building envelope systems, and controls and information technology. - Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI)
A partnership between UC Berkeley, LBNL, University of Illinois, and BP to apply advanced knowledge in biology, physical sciences, engineering, and environmental and social sciences to global energy problems. BP is funding the institute with $500 million over ten years. - Environmental Energy Technologies Division at LBNL
Performs research and development leading to better energy technologies that reduce adverse energy-related environmental impacts.- Home Energy Saver: A web-based, do-it-yourself home energy audit tool developed at LBNL’s Environmental Energy Technologies Division.
- The 20% Solution: Identifies energy efficiency measures and their predicted percentage savings to help Californians save energy
- Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS)
ITS is one of the world's leading centers for transportation research, education, and scholarship. Research areas include transportation sustainability, future urban transit systems, and environmental impacts. - Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI)
A new bioenergy research center, with UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as two of its six collaborating institutions, has been created to advance research on biofuels. Headquartered in the East Bay and led by Berkeley professor Jay Keasling, the center will receive approximately $125 million in federal funding over five years. - Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH)
PATH is a multi-disciplinary program with staff, faculty and students from universities statewide, and cooperative projects with private industry, state and local agencies, and non-profit institutions.
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