[E&E seminars] Tomorrow - Susan Tierney - MITEI Seminar Series

[Jameson Twomey]

Why is Modernizing Our Energy Technologies So Darn Hard, But Worth the  
Effort?

Susan Tierney, Analysis Group

Tuesday, February 2

4:15 Reception to follow

66-110 (Landau Building, 25 Ames Street)

Abstract
So much work is underway to advance energy technologies to make them  
more efficient, have a lower carbon footprint, more accessible to  
communities, and so forth. And yet, it is so hard to put new energy  
technologies into place in domestic (and many international) markets.  
Why is that? Tierney discusses the array of factors arising out of  
national energy policy, regulatory approaches and practices, energy  
and other politics, investment settings, and so forth, that create  
tenacious barriers to the introduction of advanced energy technologies  
into existing systems. She also will address what is happening to  
overcome those obstacles and why more is needed.

About the speaker
Sue Tierney, a Managing Principal at Analysis Group in Boston, is an  
expert on energy economics, regulation and policy.  She consults on  
market analysis, transmission policy, energy facility siting, utility  
ratemaking, energy efficiency, renewables, and climate and energy  
policy.  Her previous positions included Assistant Secretary for  
Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy, Massachusetts Secretary of  
Environmental Affairs, Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of  
Public Utilities Chairman of the Board of the Massachusetts Water  
Resources Authority, and executive director of the Massachusetts  
Energy Facilities Siting Council. She co-chaired the DOE Agency Review  
Team for the Obama Presidential Transition Team. Currently, she co- 
chairs the National Commission on Energy Policy, chairs the board of  
the Energy Foundation, chairs the Advisory Council of the National  
Renewable Energy Lab; and is a director of World Resources Institute,  
Clean Air Task Force, Clean Air – Cool Planet, Evergreen Solar, and Ze- 
gen.  She has taught at the University of California at Irvine, and  
earned her Ph.D. from Cornell University.
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