Tom Brouns
Tom Brouns manages Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Environmental Management Sector.
Cheryn Metzger
Cheryn Metzger leads teams of researchers working in both residential and commercial buildings, focused on solutions that respond directly to end-user needs. She is the residential and commercial buildings sub-sector program manager.
Aviation Biofuels
PNNL partners with industry to develop high-quality jet fuel from ethanol that helps power commercial aviation.
Building-Grid Integration
PNNL develops new concepts and technologies that connect buildings and the power grid for a better energy future.
Algal Biofuels
PNNL is investigating growth and productivity conditions for multiple algae strains that show promise for conversion to biofuels that power transportation.
Chemistry
A clean-energy future for the United States relies on innovation. Our ability to control essential energy transformations will require harnessing the power of chemistry.
Waste-to-Energy and Products
PNNL is using in-house-developed tools and expertise to investigate the conversion of waste products such as manures and wastewater into biofuels that power transportation.
Building Energy Codes
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) provides support in developing and implementing national model codes to support energy efficiency in buildings with energy-efficient building envelopes and mechanical, lighting, and power systems.
Electric Grid Modernization
PNNL is integrating advances in data analytics, deep learning, high-performance computing, cybersecurity, and advanced controls to improve future electric power system operations, planning, resiliency, flexibility, and security—towards a modern, reliable, and secure grid.
Reactor Licensing
Since the 1980s, PNNL has worked with federal agencies to provide scientifically credible, legally defensible, and consistently useful documentation for the licensing and siting of nuclear power reactor facilities in the United States and internationally.