Marilyn A. Brown
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Marilyn A. Brown is the Regents' and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems[1] in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She joined Georgia Tech in 2006 after 22 years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where she held various leadership positions managing programs focused on the efficient use of energy, renewable energy, and the electric grid. With Eric Hirst, she coined the term "energy efficiency gap" and pioneered research to highlight and quantify the unexploited economic potential to use energy more productively.
Brown was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for bridging engineering, social and behavioral sciences, and policy studies to achieve cleaner electric energy.
Career[]
At Georgia Tech, Brown leads the Climate and Energy Policy Laboratory[2] and co-directs the Master of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management[3] in the School of Public Policy. These initiatives focus on clean energy policies, trends in the U.S. South, and the smart grid, and they span the triad of climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and geo-engineering. CEPL is distinct in its analysis of climate change and energy policies using the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) and other modeling platforms.
Among her honors and awards, she is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. From 2010–2018 she was appointed by President Barack Obama to two terms on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority. During her 8 years as a regulator, TVA reduced its CO2 emissions by 50%, brought a new nuclear reactor on line, and modeled energy efficiency as a virtual power plant in its integrated resource planning. In 2019, she was a recipient of the 2019 Charles H. Percy Award for Public Service, given by the Alliance to Save Energy. [4]
Brown co-founded the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance and chaired its first board of directors. She has served on the boards of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, the Alliance to Save Energy, and the Bipartisan Policy Center. She co-chaired the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Committee on America's Climate Futures and has served on seven other NASEM committees, is an Editor of Energy Policy, and serves on the Editorial Boards of Energy Efficiency and Energy Research & Social Science. She served on the Electricity Advisory Committee of the United States Department of Energy from 2015–2018) and chaired its Smart Grid Subcommittee.[5]
Education[]
Brown received her bachelor of arts from Rutgers University in political science and a minor in mathematics in 1971. In 1973, she earned her master's degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in resource planning. In 1977, she obtained her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in geography with a minor in quantitative methods. She is a certified energy manager with the Association of Energy Engineers[6][circular reference].[7]
Publications[]
Brown's books on clean energy policy, technology, behavior, and economics include:
- Empowering the Great Energy Transition, Columbia University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-2311-8596-7
- Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy: Fifteen Contentious Questions, Johns Hopkins University Press. 2016. ISBN 978-1-4214-1897-1
- Green Savings: How Policy and Markets Drive Energy Efficiency, Praeger. 2015. ISBN 978-1-4408-3120-1
- Climate Change and Global Energy Security, MIT Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-2625-1631-0
- Shrinking the carbon footprint of metropolitan America, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2008.
- Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths, Springer Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-4020-5563-8[8]
See also[]
- Amory Lovins
- Benjamin K. Sovacool
- Efficient energy use
- Martin J. Pasqualetti
- Renewable energy policy
References[]
- ^ "Brook Byers Professors, BBISS Fellows, and GRA Scholars | BBISS | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA".
- ^ "About the Climate and Energy Policy Laboratory | Climate and Energy Policy Laboratory".
- ^ "Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management Faculty | Climate and Energy Policy Laboratory".
- ^ "Alliance to Save Energy Honors Public Policy Professor Marilyn Brown | School of Public Policy".
- ^ "Marilyn A. Brown | School of Public Policy".
- ^ Association of Energy Engineers
- ^ Virginia Tech. "About Marilyn A. Brown". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28.
- ^ Brown, Marilyn. "Marilyn A. Brown, Ph.D. – School of Public Policy". Georgia Institute of Technology. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ "Marilyn A. Brown".
- Living people
- Georgia Tech faculty
- American non-fiction environmental writers
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory people
- Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences alumni
- People associated with energy
- Rutgers University alumni
- Sustainability advocates
- University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- American women writers
- American women academics