Ben Polly joined the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in 2009. He specializes in the development, validation, and application of energy analysis approaches for individual buildings and collections of buildings.

He has developed and applied software testing approaches for residential audit tools and associated utility bill calibration methods, methods for calculating life-cycle-cost-optimal retrofit packages, and approaches for analyzing measured energy consumption to estimate retrofit energy savings and improve software prediction accuracy.

Polly’s current research interests also include zero energy buildings and neighborhoods, urban energy design and optimization, and inverse design of buildings systems and materials.

He has an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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