Director of Energy Equity & Inclusion
Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA)
Houston, Texas, United States
Mary Palmer is the Director of Energy Equity & Inclusion at the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA). She is responsible for guiding SEPA’s efforts to accelerate the achievement of a carbon-free energy system with new, more equitable programs, systems, and processes.
She has more than ten years of experience in public policy, grassroots community engagement, and coalition building at organizations such as the League of Women Voters, Women Creating Change, Global Vision International, and Austin Energy.
At Austin Energy, she led initiatives that advanced the goals of the Resource, Generation, and Climate Protection Plan, a plan that outlined the utility's pathway to provide affordable, dependable and safe electricity service to residents and businesses while pursuing the City of Austin’s climate protection and sustainability goals.
Mary's expertise lies in her ability to leverage her experience in public policy, community engagement, business operations, and electric utilities to create actionable, community-centric solutions to combat climate change. She has served on the boards of the Texas Solar Energy Society and the Austin Community College Engineering Technology Advisory Committee. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences in Business and Public Relations from Texas State University and is currently completing a Master of Business Administration from St. Edwards University.
Her proudest achievement is working with local communities and volunteers from all over the world to install rainwater harvesting systems totaling 82,900 liters of potable, accessible water to residents of Fiji.
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