This page features the organization and biographies of senior management in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).
Executive Leadership
(Vacant)
Assistant Secretary
Lou Hrkman
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
Lou oversees a $3.2 billion budget focused on the research, development, validation, and effective utilization of renewable energy and efficiency technologies that improve the affordability, reliability, resiliency, and security of the American energy system.
Angelos Kokkinos
Senior Advisor
Angelos is a senior advisor for EERE, supporting the assistant secretary in overseeing the office's research, development, and demonstration activities.
Alejandro Moreno
Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
Alejandro provides strategic advice to the principal deputy assistant secretary on strategic planning, execution, and oversight of the EERE portfolio.
(Vacant)
Chief of Staff
Michael Berube
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation & Fuels
Michael oversees EERE’s transportation and fuels portfolio, which focuses on research and development to increase access to domestic transportation fuels and improve the energy efficiency, convenience, and affordability of transporting people and goods.
Sydney Lienemann
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Energy
Sydney directs EERE's renewable energy applied research, development, and demonstration activities for the geothermal, solar energy, wind energy, and water power technologies offices.
Carolyn Snyder
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Buildings & Industry
Carolyn leads a diverse buildings and industry program and research and development portfolio, including advanced manufacturing and building technologies.
Christy Cooper
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Operations
Christy directs EERE's business operations, including business services management, budget, information technology (IT) services, knowledge management services, and workforce management.
Office of the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
Sue Hamm
Integrated Strategies Director
Sue Hamm oversees EERE's integrated strategies portfolio.
(Vacant)
External Affairs Director
The external affairs director oversees EERE's Office of External Affairs, which includes communications, stakeholder engagement, and legislative affairs.
Technology Sector Leaders
Buildings & Industry
Christopher Saldaña
Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Technologies Office Director
Christopher Saldaña leads the Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Technologies Office to advance energy-related materials and manufacturing technologies to increase domestic competitiveness and build a robust economy.
Michael Furze
Building Technologies Office Director
Michael Furze leads the Building Technologies Office in creating a self-sustaining market for building energy efficiency, which includes advancing technologies, promoting highly efficient buildings and homes, and accelerating the adoption of building codes and equipment standards.
Avi Shultz
Industrial Technologies Office Director
Avi Shultz leads the Industrial Technologies Office to spearhead the development and accelerate the adoption of technologies that increase efficiency and lower costs.
Renewable Energy
Lauren Boyd
Geothermal Technologies Office Director
Lauren Boyd leads the Geothermal Technologies Office's overall strategic, technical, and project oversight of cutting-edge technologies designed to advance geothermal as a key contributor to the U.S. energy portfolio. She partners with industry, academia, and DOE's national laboratories to establish geothermal energy as an economically competitive and widely available component of the U.S. energy supply.
Becca Jones-Albertus
Solar Energy Technologies Office Director
Becca Jones-Albertus leads a team that supports early-stage research and development in the technology areas of photovoltaics, concentrating solar-thermal power, and systems integration with the goal of improving the affordability, reliability, and performance of solar energy technologies on the grid.
Eric Lantz
Wind Energy Technologies Office Director
Eric Lantz leads the Wind Energy Technologies Office to improve performance, lower costs, and accelerate deployment of wind energy technologies.
Matthew Grosso
Water Power Technologies Office Director
Matthew Grosso manages efforts to improve performance, lower costs, and accelerate the deployment of water power technologies.
Transportation & Fuels
Valerie Reed
Bioenergy Technologies Office Director
Valerie Reed leads the Bioenergy Technologies Office's overall strategic, technical, and project oversight of efforts to improve performance, lower costs, and accelerate market entry of advanced biofuels and bioproducts, which can help reduce America's imports of oil while enabling a new industry with an improved environmental impact.
Sunita Satyapal
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office Director
Sunita Satyapal leads the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office's overall strategy and execution—including oversight and coordination of research, development, demonstration, and deployment activities related to hydrogen and fuel cells—and coordinates hydrogen activities across DOE.
Austin Brown
Vehicle Technologies Office Director
Austin Brown leads initiatives and programs that help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil within the Vehicle Technologies Office, which supports research for hybrid drivetrains, advanced batteries, lightweight materials, advanced combustion and fuels, vehicle systems integration, and city deployment activities.
Michael Berube
Joint Office of Energy and Transportation Director (Acting)
Michael Berube leads the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation's development of federal guidance and technical assistance for states and localities for strategically deploying charging infrastructure needed for alternate-fuel vehicles across the United States.
Operations
Derek Passarelli
Golden Field Office Director
As Golden Field Office director for EERE, Derek Passarelli oversees the critical operations and support functions in Golden, Colorado, that are key to fulfilling EERE’s mission.
Maria Sutton
Office of Business Services Management Director
Maria Sutton oversees EERE's workforce management, knowledge management and systems, and IT services offices, as well as cross-cutting business administration activities.
Modeque Hunter
Budget Office Director (Acting)
Modeque Hunter serves as EERE's Budget Office director, leading EERE's budget planning, formulation, justification, and execution.