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Personal Profile
Deborah Brodt-Giles is the manager for the Strategic Energy Security group within the Resilient Infrastructure and Security Center. Her team's focus is to strategically advance energy security for our nation; improve energy resilience for critical sites, communities, and infrastructure; and provide advanced modeling and scenario-based analyses to help address supply chain issues (including critical materials), support defense and national preparedness, and evaluate international security implications of global energy transformations.
Brodt-Giles has built numerous programs and initiatives for NLR, including the American-Made Program, which is a comprehensive prize program dedicated to advancing energy technology innovation, supported by a robust technical and business network of incubators, accelerators, national labs, and facilities. She also led the development of NLR's open data initiatives and platforms, OpenEI and OEDI. Brodt-Giles continually works to grow programming and partnerships that will further advance energy technology innovation, security, reliability, and affordability.
Her long career at NLR includes many years leading teams that develop leading-edge data-driven software platforms, data accessibility standards, cloud computing practices, data management systems, data visualizations, and modeling solutions.
Research Interests
Energy security and resilience
Innovative approaches to research and development
Prizes and entrepreneurial innovation
Energy data management, access, and visualizations
Cloud computing strategies and data center efficiencies
Solar and other renewable energy marketplace acceleration
Innovative approaches to software development
Workforce development
Professional Experience
Electric Vehicle Project Leader, Southern California Edison (1991–1995)
Education/Academic Qualification
Bachelor, Business Administration/Marketing, California State University, Northridge
Certificate, Strategic Laboratory Leadership Program, The University of Chicago
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Collaborations and Top Research Areas From the Past 5 Years
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2024 JISEA Annual Meeting: Session 4
Jones, B. & Brodt-Giles, D., 2024, 23 p.Research output: NLR › Presentation
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Application of a Prize Mechanism to Address Data Utilization Challenges at Utilities
Gomach, S., Schulberg, A., Kobayashi, N., Brodt-Giles, D., Follum, J. & Jenkins, S., 2024, 16 p.Research output: NLR › Technical Report
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Incentivizing and Supporting Early-Stage Solar Innovation in the United States
Gomach, S., Brodt-Giles, D., Bennett, R., Schulberg, A., Kobayashi, N., Petre, J. & Skur, P., 2024, 38 p.Research output: NLR › Technical Report
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Solar Prize Round 5 Software Track: Abbreviated Final Technical Report
Brodt-Giles, D., 2024, 15 p.Research output: NLR › Technical Report
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2023 JISEA Annual Meeting: Addressing Real Life Data Challenges and Novel Solutions for Applied Science Projects
Brodt-Giles, D., Buster, G., Mooney, M., Day, M. & Rojas, D., 2023, 131 p.Research output: NLR › Presentation
Activities
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IEEE Power and Energy Society (External organization)
Sahu, A. (Member), Hoke, A. (Member), Solanki, B. (Member), Palmintier, B. (Member), Saleem, D. (Member), Comden, J. (Member), Panda, K. (Member), Panwar, M. (Member), Koralewicz, P. (Member), Dhulipala, S. C. (Member), Paul, S. (Member), Singh, V. K. (Member), Wang, W. (Member), Wright, J. (Member), Kiboma, L. (Member), Poudyal, A. (Member), Thiagarajan, R. (Member), Lara Aguilar, J. D. (Member), Kumar, U. (Member), Chen, Y. (Member), Ucer, E. (Member), Venkataramanan, V. (Member), Joshi, P. (Member) & Brodt-Giles, D. (Member)
0001Activity: Membership › Membership of network
Awards and Honors
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Finalist for the FedScoop 50 Tech Champion of the Year Award
Brodt-Giles, D. (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Honorary award
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NREL Staff Award, Outstanding Performance
Brodt-Giles, D. (Recipient) & Blair, N. (Recipient), 2008
Prize: Honorary award
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U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Innovation Award
Brodt-Giles, D. (Recipient) & Weers, J. (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Honorary award