Wendolyn Holland
Wendolyn Holland
Senior Advisor
Commercialization and Deployment
Wendolyn Holland joined the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) in June 2008. As Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary, Ms. Holland is responsible for identifying and implementing opportunities to accelerate the commercialization of efficiency and renewable energy technologies into the marketplace. In this role, she works closely with EERE program offices, national research laboratories, and private industry to increase our nation’s energy security and enhance our economic prosperity.
Ms. Holland comes to the Department of Energy from the private sector, having spent five years as partner or consultant to small, start-up, angel-funded firms focused on sustainability. Most recently, her endeavors have focused on sustainable water exploration and development, seamless communication infrastructure, and business continuity.
She responded to the September 11th attacks by relocating to Washington, D.C. to conduct business development and enable investor reporting compliance for a security, investigations, and counterterrorism start-up firm. Prior to that, as a strategy consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, her client engagements included creating the business model for State of the World Forum, Inc. to provide sustainable solutions to the problems of global development.
Ms. Holland was born in Ohio and resides in Idaho. She received her B.A. in Studies in the Environment and History of the American West from Yale University and her M.B.A. in finance and strategy from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. She is the author of Sun Valley: An Extraordinary History (1998).