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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