Brittany Speetles is an energy technology and policy researcher with the Strategic Policy & Implementation group in the Accelerated Deployment and Decision Support Center. She provides support on decarbonization strategies to expedite deployment of clean energy solutions.

Brittany is a certified engineer in training and has prior experience researching a variety of topics, including supply chain analyses of the energy-water-food nexus, robust quantitative analyses of electricity markets and methods of representative day selection in capacity expansion modeling. She has also assisted in analyzing climate policies for utilities and municipalities and has helped to project techno-economic peak demand/load estimates that incorporate demand-side electrification of buildings, transportation, and industrial processes.

Research Interests

Community energy solutions

Energy justice, literacy, and access

Clean air and water

Grid edge solutions and flexibility

Transactive energy

Industrial decarbonization

Buildings electrification

Strategies to increase public transportation ridership and foster ADA accessible/bikeable/walkable municipalities

Vehicle-to-grid programs

Degrowth

Energy modeling tools

Energy-water-food nexus

Clean energy policy

Circular economy

Education

M.S., Mechanical Engineering (Thermal Fluid Systems), The University of Texas at Austin
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin