Senior Advisor
U.S. Department of Energy
Washington, District of Columbia
Anna J. Siefken, LEED AP BD+C, currently serves as Senior Advisor with the Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions. She has spent her career making the business case for energy efficiency, climatetech innovation, and building performance to address the world’s most pressing energy challenges and the global urgency of climate change.
As part of her portfolio, she establishes public-private partnerships with industry to accelerate the commercialization of long duration energy storage, helps to craft policy and initiatives to advance net-zero buildings, and represents the United States on Mission Innovation’s Technical Advisory Group (TAG) with focus on Zero Emission Shipping, Net-Zero Industries, and Green Powered Future. Siefken simultaneously serves as Ambassador, Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E), and was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Energy.
Prior to her service at DOE, Siefken was the inaugural Executive Director of the Energy Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and has held leadership roles in energy and climate with The Home Depot, the U.S. Green Building Council’s Green Building Alliance, and ICF.
The Tech & Development Side of Long-Duration Storage
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CT