Research Themes +
Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
Strategic Initiatives +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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About Us +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Billie Holecek

Senior Research Associate

510-486-7298

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eta.lbl.gov/people/Billie-Holecek

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Bio

Billie attended the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry where she studied sustainable energy management and received a Bachelor's of Science with minors in economics, management and applied statistics. After graduating in 2020, she joined LBNL and now works with the labs Sustainable Operations Group to support both federal and state energy-efficient product procurement efforts. She also helps support federal agencies by providing technical and procurement guidance for the adoption of distributed energy resources.

Education

Sustainable Energy Management, BS, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 2020

Awards

Billie Holecek - June 1st 2022

Outstanding initiative in putting together a three part webinar series related to solar PV operations and maintenance (O&M) trainings for federal and California based institutions.

Publications

2022

The Policy Mullet: Good Intentions in Front, Bad Policy in Back

Authors: Abdul-Khabir, Fatima; Billie Holecek; Christopher T. Payne, and Gerald Robinson.

08/2022