Berkeley, California, United States
Evan Mills is an energy and environmental analyst . He is an Affiliate and recently retired Senior Scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), operated by the University of California--one of the world's leading research centers on energy and environment. He was past leader of LBNL's Center for Building Science, which represented the work of about 400 people. He is also a Research Affiliate with the Energy & Resources Group at UC Berkeley. Mills is a member of the international body of scientists under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC collectively shared in the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 with former U.S. Vice President Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. While completing his BSc. degree in Conservation and Resource Studies at U.C. Berkeley in the mid-1980s, he studied and taught about green buildings with Prof. Sim van der Ryn. He received a MSc. degree in 1987 from U.C. Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group and a Ph.D. from the Department of Environmental and Energy Systems Studies under Thomas B. Johansson at Lund University in Sweden in 1991. In Sweden, he worked closely with the Swedish State Power Board (Vattenfall) and the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development on national energy planning projects, while serving as an energy advisor to the Swedish Parliamentary Working Group on Energy Futures. He spent most of his career at LBNL. His closest mentor and collaborator there was Art Rosenfeld, for whom he served as his Deputy Director of the Center for Building Science, later leading the Center. He has also consulted widely for private industry and the public sector. His ongoing research centers on the impacts of climate change mitigating those impacts through reduced emissions and loss prevention. His specialties are energy efficiency in buildings and industry and the intersection of energy technology, global climate, and risk management. His interests further center around pinpointing "sleeper" uses of energy and empowering policymakers, consumers, and non-traditional market actors to capture improved efficiencies, reduced greenhouse-gas emissions, co-benefits. He also studies the climate benefits of improved forest management. Research communication to stakeholder groups is a key focus. Mills has published nearly 400 technical articles and reports and has contributed to 13 books and many articles in the popular press. He has been a speaker in 20 countries and 57 cities. For more information see http://evanmills.lbl.gov
R&D, analysis, & decision-tools empowering consumers, policymakers, and market actors to improve energy efficiency, lower greenhouse-gas emissions, enhance resilience, and capture co-benefits Previous roles: • Staff Scientist, Research Associate, Student Assistant Management • Leader, Center for Building Science • Assistant Director, EETD • Communications Director Key Accomplishments • Foundational Projects - off-grid solar-led lighting for developing countries - computer gaming energy use - insurance industry climate impacts - building commissioning cost-benefit analysis - energy use of indoor agriculture - web-based energy and carbon-footprinting tools - integrating green-buildings data into real estate appraisals - energy issues in low-income housing • High-tech energy: labs, cleanrooms, datacenters • Climate change impacts (sectoral, national, global) • Co-developed NSF community college vocational program 377 publications Awards and Recognition • Shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) & former U.S. Vice President Al Gore • Association of Energy Engineers, Energy Project of the Year • Association of Energy Engineers, Appropriate Technology Champion Federal Laboratory Consortium Award - Home Energy Saver & Home Energy Score websites • R&D 100: Best 100 inventions • Energy 100: Best 100 innovations in DOE's history • PC Magazine: Top 100 Undiscovered Websites • Building Commissioning Association, Benner Award • Berkeley Lab Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement: Societal Impact - Home Energy Scoring Tool Clients • California Air Resources Board • California Energy Commission • California Institute for Energy & Environment • National Science Foundation • US Agency for International Development • US Department of Energy • US Department of Housing and Urban Development • US Environmental Protection Agency • US Federal Aviation Administration • US Global Climate Change Research Program
Mentoring and inclusion of students in research projects. Guest presentations in courses.
Consultation to wide range of organizations: government, industry, civil society. Clients (US-based, unless otherwise noted): AIG Armstrong/Energyn Barakat, Howard & Chamberlin, Inc. Bay Area Air Quality Management District= Better Energy Systems (UK) California Air Resources Board California Department of Insurance CalPERS - California Public Employees' Retirement System Capital-E Center for Applied Environmental Law and Policy Ceres Connecticut Interlocal Risk Management Agency CMC Energy Services Disney Imagineering Electricity Corporation of New Zealand (New Zealand) Energy Auditor and Retrofitter Magazine (subsequently Home Energy) Environmental Democracy Project FASECOLDA - Federacion de Aseguradores Colombianos (Colombian Federation of Insurance Companies) (Colombia) Global Environmental Facility [GEF] Global Roundtable on Climate Change (Columbia University) Government Accountability Office Greenpeace International (Netherlands) Hartford Steam Boiler Harvard Medical School - Center for Health and the Global Environment Hewlett Foundation Hewlett-Packard Cal State Polytechnic University, Humboldt Idyllwild Arts & Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts Institute for Environmental Technologies (Netherlands) Integrated Process Technologies International Association for Energy-Efficient Lighting (Sweden) International Project for Sustainable Energy Paths Investment Research, Inc. Noyo Center for Marine Science Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress OECD Environment Directorate (Group on Urban Affairs) (France) Peralta Community College District RAND Corporation Regents of the Central European University (Hungary) Rockefeller Family Fund Sierra Club Swedish Parliament Working Group on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Sources (Sweden) Teton Energy Partners United States Trade and Development Agency United Nations Environment Programme (France) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Germany) World Bank / International Finance Corporation
Development of zero-carbon national energy supply and demand scenarios within demanding policy constraints Key Accomplishments • Designed and led a major national energy scenario development project to determine potential energy systems evolution in Sweden and associated costs and greenhouse-gas emissions, in close collaboration with the Swedish State Power Board (Vattenfall). Identified pathways to carry out planned national nuclear-phaseout and halt devleopment of hydroelectric power on wild rivers, without increasing carbon emissions or national energy expenditures. • Served as expert advisor to The Swedish Parlimentary Group on Energy Efficiency • Led first-ever assessment of utility sponsored energy-efficient lighting programs across 12 European countries. • Co-founded the International Association for Energy-Efficient Lighting. Organized First European Conference on Energy-Efficient Lighting.
School of Architecture, College of Environmental Design - taught under the direction of Sym van der Ryn.