

Berkeley Lab leads a DOE-funded initiative to advance Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), promoting indoor farming to reduce land/water use, emissions, and enhance food security through innovation and community collaboration nationwide.

Northern San Joaquin Valley: Berkeley Lab, UC Merced, and BEAM Circular are developing actionable and strategic plans to create an innovation campus and ecosystem in the Northern San Joaquin Valley centered on biomanufacturing.

Southern San Joaquin Valley: Partnering with the surrounding communities to evaluate the feasibility of a sophisticated direct air capture hub.

Salton Sea: Steering research and development in lithium recovery technologies through an environmental science perspective, leveraging unconventional resources, and collaborating closely with community stakeholders.

Our lab is committed to increasing participation in science. Through our K-12 STEM education and outreach programs, we connect with students and encourage their interest in science and technology.

Forrester broadly focuses on energy affordability, distributed energy resources, and new utility business models. More specifically, her work includes studying both the quantitative and policy-driven aspects of distributed energy resources and their impacts on the grid and ratepayers.

Wei is a Staff Scientist in the Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems Department in the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division. His expertise is in energy system modeling for deep decarbonization, residential building modeling, and more.

Breunig is a Research Scientist in the Sustainable Energy Systems Group in the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division. She holds a secondary joint appointment in the Earth Systems and Society Domain in the Climate and Ecosystem Science Division. Hanna specializes in spatially- and temporally-resolved environmental, human health, and economic impact assessment of emerging energy and wastewater treatment technologies.





