Marilyn A. Brown

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.

Marilyn A. Brown
Alma mater
Organizations
Notable work
  • IPCC Assessment Reports 3(2001), 4(2007), 5(2013)
  • Scenarios of U.S. carbon reductions
  • Carbon footprint of cities
  • "Energy-efficiency gap"
  • Utility regulator
  • Editor, Energy Policy

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. In addition, Brown was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.[2]

Career

At Georgia Tech, Brown leads the Climate and Energy Policy Laboratory[3] and co-directs the Master of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management[4] 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. Brown led Scenarios of U.S. Carbon Reductions: The Potential Impact of Energy-Efficient and Low-Carbon Technologies.[5] President Clinton cited this study as providing the support that enabled the U.S. Administration’s support for the U.S. goal for greenhouse gas reductions proposed at the 1997 Kyoto summit on global climate change. From 2010 to 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. In 2022, Brown received the Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award, the highest honor that can be given to a Georgia Tech Professor. [6] She received the World Citizen Prizes in Environmental Performance Award by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) in 2021.[7]

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 to 2018) and chaired its Smart Grid Subcommittee.[8]

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 Ohio State University in geography with a minor in quantitative methods. She is a certified energy manager with the Association of Energy Engineers[9].[10]

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[11]


Brown's work has also been published in top policy and sustainability related journals, such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Science, Nature Energy, Energy Policy, Applied Energy, Environmental Science & Technology, Journal of Cleaner Production, Policy and Society, Renewable Energy, Ecological Economics, Research Policy, Global Environmental Change, Energy Efficiency, Climatic Change, Energy Research & Social Science, Resourcs, Conservation and Recycling, The Electricity Journal, and Environmental Research Letters. Some examples include:

See also

References
  1. "Brook Byers Professors, BBISS Fellows, and GRA Scholars | BBISS | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA".
  2. "Marilyn A. Brown". www.nasonline.org.
  3. "About the Climate and Energy Policy Laboratory | Climate and Energy Policy Laboratory".
  4. "Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management Faculty | Climate and Energy Policy Laboratory". cepl.gatech.edu.
  5. Brown, M. A. (January 1, 1997). "Scenarios of U.S. Carbon Reductions: Potential Impacts of Energy-Efficient and Low-Carbon Technologies by 2010 and Beyond". doi:10.2172/814844 – via www.osti.gov.
  6. "Alliance to Save Energy Honors Public Policy Professor Marilyn Brown | School of Public Policy". spp.gatech.edu.
  7. "World Citizen Prizes in Environmental Performance | APPAM". www.appam.org.
  8. "Marilyn A. Brown | School of Public Policy".
  9. Association of Energy Engineers
  10. Virginia Tech. "About Marilyn A. Brown". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28.
  11. Brown, Marilyn. "Marilyn A. Brown, Ph.D. – School of Public Policy". Georgia Institute of Technology. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
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