Dr. Westlake works for the Electric Power Research Institute on electrolytic hydrogen production within the Low-Carbon Resources Initiative.
Dr. Brittany Westlake is a Sr. Technical Leader at EPRI. There she leads R&D and demonstration projects related to hydrogen production from electrolysis on EPRI’s Low-Carbon Resources Team. Working to understand electrolysis technology performance and the technical and economic considerations for adoption pathways and deployment on the grid. She previously worked with EPRI’s Energy Storage and Distributed Generation Program to understand battery, storage, hydrogen, and fueled distribution technology performance characteristics and the role they play in a variety of applications from stationary storage, the transportation sector, and to support the generation sector. Prior to joining EPRI, Brittany worked as a Science and Technology Policy Fellow at both the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity and the American Chemical Society. She holds a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Georgia, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
