Marilyn A. Brown


Marilyn A. Brown is an American geographer and a Regent's Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. From 2010-2017 she served two terms as a Presidential appointee and regulator on the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public power provider, chairing the Nuclear Oversight Committee and modeling energy efficiency as a virtual power plant. She joined Georgia Tech in 2006 after a distinguished career at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where she held various leadership positions managing programs focused on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and the electric grid. At ORNL, Dr. Brown co-led the report, Scenarios for a Clean Energy Future, which remains a cornerstone of engineering-economic analysis of low-carbon energy options for the United States. While at ORNL, she and Eric Hirst coined the term "energy efficiency gap" in a 1990 article on "Closing the Efficiency Gap: Barriers to the Efficient Use of Energy." The term refers to the unexploited economic potential for energy efficiency, and it has attracted wide attention among energy analysts.

Marilyn Brown is a national leader in the analysis and interpretation of energy futures in the United States. Her work has had significant visibility in the policy arena as evidenced by her briefings and testimonies before Committees of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

Her research focuses on the design and modeling of energy and climate policies, with an emphasis on the electric utility industry, energy efficiency, and resources on the customer side of the meter. Her most recent books include Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016) and Green Savings: How Policies and Markets Drive Energy Efficiency (Praeger, 2015). She has authored more than 250 publications. Her work has had significant visibility in the policy arena as evidenced by her numerous briefings and testimonies before state legislative and regulatory bodies, Committees of both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, and international organizations.

At Georgia Tech, Dr. Brown created and leads the Climate and Energy Policy Laboratory (CEPL), and advises students in the Environment and Energy Policy concentration in the School of Public Policy. CEPL supports this effort by conducting research on global energy security, clean energy employment, policies to promote energy efficiency, renewable energy policies and trends in the U.S. South, smart grid policies, and demand response. CEPL is involved in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and policy interests span the triad of climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and geo-engineering. Dr. Brown is a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, 2007, for co-authorship of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III Assessment Report on Mitigation of Climate Change, Chapter 6.

CEPL is distinct in its analysis of climate change and energy policies using the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS), in conjunction with Input/Output analysis, fixed- and random-effects econometric analysis, and Monte Carlo methods to characterize uncertainties. These models are used to evaluate the speed and market penetration of new and improved energy technologies, and the ability of possible future policies to accelerate technology adoption.

Dr. Brown co-founded the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance and chaired its board of directors for several years. She has served on the boards of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and the Alliance to Save Energy, and was a commissioner with the Bipartisan Policy Center. She has served on eight National Academies committees and currently serves on the editorial boards of three journals: Energy Policy, Energy Efficiency, and Energy Research and Social Science. She currently serves on DOE’s Electricity Advisory Committee, where she is vice chair of the Smart Grid Subcommittee.

Publications

Brown has written four books on clean energy policy, technology, and economies:

  • Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy: Fifteen Contentious Questions by B. K. Sovacool, M.A. Brown, and S. Valentine, 115,000 words. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2016. ISBN 978-1-4214-1897-1
  • Green Savings: How Policy and Markets Drive Energy Efficiency by M.A. Brown and Yu Wang, 85,000 words. Praeger. 2015. ISBN 978-1-4408-3120-1
  • Climate Change and Global Energy Security: Technology and Policy Options, M. A. Brown and B.K. Sovacool. MIT Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-2625-1631-0
  • Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths, B. K. Sovacool and M. A. Brown (eds.) Springer Press (March 2007) ISBN 978-1-4020-5563-8

Recent Articles

  • Liu, X., Du, H., Brown, M. A., Zuo, J., Zhang, N., Rong, Q., & Mao, G. (2018). Low-carbon technology diffusion in the decarbonization of the power sector: Policy implications. Energy Policy, 116, 344-356, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.02.001.[1]
  • Rudd, M. A., et al. (2018). Climate research priorities for policy-makers, practitioners, and scientists in Georgia, USA. Environmental Management, 1-20, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-018-1051-4.[2]
  • Brown, M. A., & Li, Y. (2018). Carbon pricing and energy efficiency: pathways to deep decarbonization of the US electric sector. Energy Efficiency, 1-19, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-018-9686-9.[3]
  • Zhang, W., Robinson, C., Guhathakurta, S., Garikapati, V. M., Dilkina, B., Brown, M. A., & Pendyala, R. M. (2018). Estimating residential energy consumption in metropolitan areas: A microsimulation approach. Energy, 155, 162-173, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2018.04.161.
  • Brown, M. A., Zhou, S., & Ahmadi, M. (2018) Smart grid governance: An international review of evolving policy issues and innovations. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment, DOI: 10.1002/wene.290.
  • Robinson, C., Dilkina, B., Hubbs, J., Zhang, W., Guhathakurta, S., Brown, M. A., & Pendyala, R. M. (2017). Machine learning approaches for estimating commercial building energy consumption. Applied Energy, 208, 889-904, doi:10.3141/2668-01.
  • Pandit, A., Minné, E. A., Li, F., Brown, H., Jeong, H., James, J. A. C., ... & Yang, P. (2017). Infrastructure ecology: an evolving paradigm for sustainable urban development. Journal of Cleaner Production, 163, S19-S27.
  • Valentine, S. V., Sovacool, B. K., & Brown, M. A. (2017). Frame envy in energy policy ideology: A social constructivist framework for wicked energy problems. Energy Policy, 109, 623-630.
  • Wang, L., Wei, Y. M., & Brown, M. A. (2017). Global transition to low-carbon electricity: A bibliometric analysis. Applied Energy, 205, 57-68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.07.107.
  • Johnson, E., Beppler, R., Blackburn, C., Staver, B., Brown, M., & Matisoff, D. (2017). Peak shifting and cross-class subsidization: The impacts of solar PV on changes in electricity costs. Energy Policy, 106, 436-444, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.03.034.
  • Brown, Marilyn A; Kim, Gyungwon; Smith, Alexander M; Southworth, Katie (2017). "Exploring the impact of energy efficiency as a carbon mitigation strategy in the U.S". Energy Policy. 109: 249. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2017.06.044.
  • Zou, Hongyang; Du, Huibin; Brown, Marilyn A; Mao, Guozhu (2017). "Large-scale PV power generation in China: A grid parity and techno-economic analysis". Energy. 134: 256. doi:10.1016/j.energy.2017.05.192.
  • Garikapati, Venu M; You, Daehyun; Zhang, Wenwen; Pendyala, Ram M; Guhathakurta, Subhrajit; Brown, Marilyn A; Dilkina, Bistra (2017). "Estimating Household Travel Energy Consumption in Conjunction with a Travel Demand Forecasting Model". Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 2668: 1. doi:10.3141/2668-01.
  • Brown, Marilyn A (2017). "Commercial cogeneration benefits depend on market rules, rates, and policies". Environmental Research Letters. 12 (3): 031003. Bibcode:2017ERL....12c1003B. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa6044.
  • Zhou, Shan; Brown, Marilyn A (2017). "Smart meter deployment in Europe: A comparative case study on the impacts of national policy schemes". Journal of Cleaner Production. 144: 22. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.12.031.
  • Brown, Marilyn A; Wang, Yu (2017). "Energy-efficiency skeptics and advocates: The debate heats up as the stakes rise". Energy Efficiency. 10 (5): 1155. doi:10.1007/s12053-017-9511-x.
  • Brown, Marilyn A; Li, Yufei; Massetti, Emanuele; Lapsa, Melissa (2017). "U.S. Sulfur dioxide emission reductions: Shifting factors and a carbon dioxide penalty". The Electricity Journal. 30: 17. doi:10.1016/j.tej.2016.12.007.

Education

In 1971, Brown received her bachelor of arts from Rutgers University in political science and a minor in mathematics. 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.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Liu, Xi (2018). "Low-carbon technology diffusion in the decarbonization of the power sector: Policy implications". Energy Policy. 116: 344-356. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  2. ↑ Rudd, Murray (2018). "Climate research priorities for policy-makers, practitioners, and scientists in Georgia, USA". Environmental Management: 1-20.
  3. ↑ Brown, Marilyn (2018). "Carbon pricing and energy efficiency: pathways to deep decarbonization of the US electric sector" (PDF). Energy Efficiency: 1-19. Retrieved 9/17/2018. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  4. ↑ Virginia Tech. "About Marilyn A. Brown". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28.
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