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 NREL, 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 NREL'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 NREL 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.