Holmes Hummel

Holmes Hummel is the Senior Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Policy & International Affairs. In that capacity, Dr. Hummel engages a wide range of industry and public interest stakeholders to inform energy policy deliberations on such topics as energy efficiency finance, electric vehicle deployment, natural gas resource development, trade policy, environmental regulation and grid reliability.

In earlier public service, Dr. Hummel served as a Congressional Science Fellow focused on energy and climate policy. Experience on Capitol Hill informed Dr. Hummel’s Climate Policy Design Pro-Series, a program to help make policy debates more accessible to both business professionals and public interest organizers.

Prior to moving to Washington, D.C., Dr. Hummel designed corporate energy strategies for clients of Silicon Energy, an energy software firm acquired by Itron, and later consulted briefly with the Google Energy & Climate team.

As one of the first to earn a doctorate degree from the Interdisciplinary Program on Environment and Resources at Stanford University, Dr. Hummel researched ways to interpret energy scenarios for climate stabilization.  Demonstrating the value of policy-relevant research, Dr. Hummel immediately joined Jan Hamrin, long-time President of the Center for Resource Solutions, to co-author a Review of Role on Renewable Energy in Global Energy Scenarios for the International Energy Agency’s Implementing Agreement on Renewable Energy Technology Development.

Dr. Hummel was first hooked on energy technology innovation in 1994 as a co-leader of the Clarkson University Solar Car Team, which designed and raced a highly efficient experimental electric vehicle across the country using only the power of the sun.  In addition to receiving a Switzer Environmental Fellowship in the ensuing years, the Environmental Leadership Program has recognized Dr. Hummel as a “visionary, action-oriented leader.”