Amruta Khanolkar is a Director at TRC in the Advanced Energy, Research and Consulting group where she leads teams on technology deployments and program adoption pilots and projects. With 17+ years of experience in the building industry in the private and nonprofit sectors, she combines technical expertise in electrification, demand response management, and net zero energy design. Amruta founded a national market transformation initiative Advanced Water Heating Initiative in 2019. Her areas of expertise are tech-market commercialization, product development, deployment at scale, new products and program pilots.