Elizabeth Gill

Project Manager III-Research


303-384-7194

Liz is a Project Leader with the Integrated Decision Support group in the Accelerated Deployment and Decision Support Center. Liz’s research focuses on community energy transitions, energy and environmental justice, and community impacts of renewable energy development. She provides leadership across a diversity of projects including Communities Local Energy Action Planning (C-LEAP) as the Deputy Principal Investigator. Communities LEAP aims to bring technical assistance to low income and energy burdened communities.

Research Interests

Energy and environmental justice

Community impacts and social acceptance of renewables

Community Energy Transitions

Education

MSc Nature, Society, and Environmental Policy, University of Oxford

BA Political Science, Willamette University

Featured Work

Tackling grand challenges in wind energy through a socio-technical perspective, Nature Energy (2023)

JUST-R metrics for considering energy justice in early-stage energy research, Joule (2023)

Setting the Baseline: The Current Understanding of Equity in Land-Based Wind Energy Development and

Operation, NREL Technical Report (2023)


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