Ram Narayanamurthy is the deputy director of the Building Technologies Office. He joins DOE with more than two decades of experience in development and deployment of building technologies. Prior to DOE, he led the Buildings Program at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), where his team focused on strategies for decarbonization of the building stock in both existing and new construction, based on large-scale deployments.  

The team's notable accomplishments included development of the first production built zero energy community, decarbonized solutions for retrofits in affordable housing communities, and smart energy communities. It is key to identify technologies that overcome infrastructure and cost barriers to decarbonization retrofits, such as low power heat pumps and heat pump water heaters that can help scale deployments.