Former DOE Assistant Secretary for Policy Dr. Susan Tierney

to present on the accelerating decarbonization

of the U.S. energy system

Energy economic, regulation, and policy expert Dr. Susan Tierney will be joining us during our Winter 2021 Virtual Members Meeting, happening next week February 16-18.

She currently serves as a Senior Advisor at Analysis Group, where she has consulted to businesses, federal and state governments, tribes, environmental groups, foundations, and other organizations on energy markets, and on economic and environmental regulation and strategy.

Previously, she served as the Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy.

She is a member of the National Academies of Sciences’ (NAS) Committee on the Future of Electric Power in America, and the Committee on Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States. The committee was tasked to assess the technological, social, and behavioral dimensions of policies and research activities required over the next 5 to 20 years to put the United States on a path to net-zero emissions by midcentury.

The world today faces a transformation of its energy system, from one dominated by fossil fuel combustion to one with greatly reduced emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG).

During her presentation, she will provide an overview of NAS' "decarbonization" interim report which provides a technical blueprint and policy manual for the U.S. energy system over the first critical 10 years of a 30-year effort to transform to net-zero GHG emissions.

It focuses on “no-regrets” actions that would be robust to uncertainty about the system’s final technological mix, and hedging actions that can keep open as many viable paths to net zero as possible.

She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in regional planning at Cornell University

We're less than a week away from our event! We hope you join us next week!