Blake Billings

R&D Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

March 20 at 8:30 a.m. | Room TBD | Cutting Energy Waste: Strategies and Tools for Industrial Systems - 1st Session/Instruction

March 20 at 1:00 p.m. | Room TBD | Cutting Energy Waste: Strategies and Tools for Industrial Systems - 2nd Session/Tour

Dr. Blake Billings is an R&D staff member in the Manufacturing Energy Efficiency Research and Analysis Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is a Technical Account Manager for the DOE’s Better Buildings, Better Plants Program supporting companies to implement energy efficiency and emission reduction strategies. He also supports the development of programs and strategies to specifically support energy intensive industries across the US.

Blake leads research at ORNL in onsite energy resources at industrial facilities and benchmarking industrial energy use and load shapes. Before coming to ORNL, Blake was the lead student and commercial program manager with the Intermountain Industrial Assessment Center at the University of Utah working with facilities in the industrial, commercial and public sectors on energy efficiency audits and air quality improvements. Blake received his BS in chemical engineering from Brigham Young University and his MS and PhD, also in chemical engineering, from the University of Utah. His research focuses on industrial demand response, utilizing optimization and process models to provide real benefit to the electric grid.