PNNL

Theresa Koehler has been a project manager at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) since 1999. Before joining PNNL, she worked as an engineer at two different industrial manufacturing facilities in environmental, energy, and project management capacities. She managed multimillion-dollar projects using a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach, and set up barcoding systems and kanban inventory management to improve the return on investment of production lines in Mexico.

Her breadth of projects at PNNL has enhanced her knowledge of energy auditing and efficiency, distributed energy generation technologies (solar, wind, fuel cells, geothermal, microgrids, etc.), advanced diagnostics and prognostics, and operations and maintenance techniques to enhance the service life of plant equipment. Over the years, she has promoted technology transfer to transform inventions and scientific outcomes into new products and services that benefit society.

• Effective operations and maintenance practices
• Distributed generation/combined cooling, heating, and power; fuel cell technologies
• Fault detection; diagnostics and prognostics 
• Economics/life-cycle cost analysis
• Technological research transfer to the marketplace and product commercialization

• MBA, Washington State University, 1998
• PE (Mechanical) License, 1994
• BSME, Ohio University, 1983
• Certified Energy Manager
• Professional Engineer License (Mechanical)
• Project Management Professional