Dr. Marilyn Brown presented to the Drawdown Georgia Business Compact on the power of Demand Response as an important climate solution in Georgia. She highlighted the positive effects of demand response programs on customer energy bills as well as their ability to promote carbon emission reductions. See her presentation to learn more.
Marilyn Brown received the prestigious Argon Award at Southface Institute's annual Visionary Celebration, joining the ranks of sustainability heroes, including the first recipient, Ray C. Anderson. She gave the featured talk on the progress and future of the sustainability movement.
Dr. Marilyn Brown was the lead author of Chapter 5 on Equity in a recent National Academies report on net metering of rooftop solar systems in evolving electricity systems. Read the chapter here.
Many MSEEM capstones provide insights into impactful climate solutions, including these: Ansel Ahabue Eco-certified Buildings, Shireen Khan Efficiency for Emissions-Intensive Homes, Suprita Chakravarthy Clean Car Standards, and Tim Sterling
At MIT's Applied Energy Conference, Marilyn Brown gave a keynote address co-authored with Snehal Kale (a Georgia Tech School of Public Policy PhD student).
The final report from the SE Decarbonization Workshop, has been published by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute.
The Workshop’s goals were to develop decarbonization strategies, strengthen our networks for addressing decarbonization in the SE, and develop partnership principles.
Despite a 10% growth in GDP, Georgia reduced its carbon emissions by 5% from 2017-2021. The principal driver of the 8% drop in per capita greenhouse gas emissions between 2017 and 2021 was the PSC-endorsed retirement of coal plants. Now the biggest climate polluter is transportation. While emissions from cars dipped early in the pandemic, Georgians are back driving again. But even more problematic is the pollution from trucks that has grown 16%, primarily due to the shift to on-line retail.
More needs to be done, but it's good to celebrate our progress--
On behalf of Drawdown Georgia, CEPL is pleased to announce the availability of research grants to examine
the adoption and use of high-impact climate solutions in Georgia. This solicitation invites faculty and
research associates from Georgia Universities and Colleges to submit proposals to track climate solutions
around the state. By tracking the implementation of climate solutions, we can identify places that are
leading vs lagging in adoption, winning approaches that can be replicated, and barriers that need to be
Marilyn Brown closed out the Citizens' Climate Education's Southeast Regional Conference hosted at Georgia Tech's Kendeda Building on March 5, 2023 with a presentation that talked about how low-carbon electrification will transform the globe. The need for speed and scale requires going further faster--extending our current practices and imagining a different future. 
Aline Banboukian, PhD candidate, presented a poster on "The role of state and federal governance in coal plant retirements: A case study of the state of Georgia, USA" at the 3rd International Energy Research and Social Science conference in Manchester, England. Her analysis suggests that water regulations are driving coal plant retirements and CO2 reductions in Georgia.
