Richard E Brown

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2026

Smith, Sarah Josephine, Samanvitha Murthy, Marius Stuebs, Sunhee Baik, Shreya Agarwal, Bruce Nordman, Margaret Taylor, Richard E Brown, Doug Black, and Mary Ann Piette. California Price Response Potential Study. 2026.

2025

Frank, Stephen M, Omkar Ghatpande, Jordan Shackelford, Matthew Steen, Brian L Ball, Daniel L Gerber, Arthur F.B Santos, and Richard E Brown. "Experimental validation of a co-simulation architecture for modeling whole-building and detailed electrical distribution performance." Energy and Buildings 344 (2025) 115917.

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Smith, Sarah Josephine, Marius Stuebs, Samanvitha Murthy, Sunhee Baik, Peter Cappers, Brian F Gerke, Richard E Brown, and Mary Ann Piette. "Potential Impacts of Dynamic Electricity Pricing in California: Load Shape and Customer Bill Impacts Under Elastic Customer Response." 2025.

Wang, Ruiting, Wei Feng, Bruce Nordman, Daniel L Gerber, Yutong Li, Jing Kang, Bin Hao, and Richard E Brown. "Technology standards for direct current microgrids in buildings: A review." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 211 (2025) 115278.

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2024

Ham, Sang woo, Lazlo Paul, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, Donghun Kim, Richard E Brown, Marco Pritoni, and Peter Grant. "Practical challenges of model predictive control (MPC) for grid interactive small and medium commercial buildings." ACEEE Summer Study . 2024.

Paul, Lazlo, Marco Pritoni, Cynthia Regnier, Jason S MacDonald, Richard E Brown, and Cecilia Johnson. "Architecting the Future: Exploring Coordinated Control Frameworks for Connected Communities." ACEEE Summer Study . 2024.

Gerke, Brian F, Sarah Josephine Smith, Samanvitha Murthy, Sunhee Baik, Shreya Agarwal, Peter Alstone, Aditya Khandekar, Cong Zhang, Richard E Brown, Jingjing Liu, and Mary Ann Piette. The California Demand Response Potential Study, Phase 4: Report on Shed and Shift Resources Through 2050. 2024.

Ham, Sang woo, Lazlo Paul, Donghun Kim, Marco Pritoni, Richard E Brown, and Jingjuan Feng. "Decarbonization of heat pump dual fuel systems using a practical model predictive control: Field demonstration in a small commercial building." Applied Energy 361 (2024) 122935.

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Liu, Jingjing, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Bruce Nordman, Peter Grant, Sarah Josephine Smith, Richard E Brown, Joe Bourg, Felipe Godinez, Matt Fung, and Mark S Martinez. "Assessing Customer Experience and Business Models around Price-to-Device Communication and Smart Control Pathways in CalFlexHub." 2024.

Gerke, Brian F, Marius Stübs, Samanvitha Murthy, Aditya Khandekar, Peter Cappers, Richard E Brown, and Mary Ann Piette. Potential bill impacts of dynamic electricity pricing on California utility customers. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2024.

2023

Brown, Richard E, Aditya Khandekar, Jingjing Liu, Bruce Nordman, Jaime Kolln, Steve Widergren, David Narang, Ted Bohn, and Yaosuo Xue. Energy Services Interface: Requirements Document. 2023.

Kolln, Jaime, Jingjing Liu, Steve Widergren, and Richard E Brown. Common Grid Services: Terms and Definitions Report. 2023.

Paul, Lazlo, Flavia deAndrade Pereira, Sang woo Ham, Marco Pritoni, Richard E Brown, and Jingjuan Feng. "Open Building Operating System: an Open-Source Grid Responsive Control Platform for Buildings." ASHRAE Annual Conference 2023. 2023.

Paul, Lazlo, Sang woo Ham, Marco Pritoni, Donghan Kim, Richard E Brown, and Jingjuan Feng. "Field Implementation of MPC for Heat Pump-Based Duel Fuel Systems in Small Commercial Buildings for Decarbonization." ASHRAE. 2023.

2022

Liu, Jingjing, Steve Windergren, Jaime Kolln, Sonny Xue, Ted Bohn, and Richard E Brown. State of Common Grid Services Definitions. GMLC, 2022.

Zhang, Kun, Anand Prakash, Lazlo Paul, David Blum, Peter Alstone, James Zoellick, Richard E Brown, and Marco Pritoni. "Model predictive control for demand flexibility: Real-world operation of a commercial building with photovoltaic and battery systems." Advances in Applied Energy 7 (2022) 100099.

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Piette, Mary Ann, Jingjing Liu, Bruce Nordman, Sarah Josephine Smith, Richard E Brown, Marco Pritoni, and Brian F Gerke. "Accelerating Decarbonization with the California Load Flexibility Research and Deployment Hub." 2022.

Murthy, Samanvitha, Brian F Gerke, Sarah Josephine Smith, Aditya Khandekar, Cong Zhang, Richard E Brown, and Mary Ann Piette. "A multi-level load shape clustering and disaggregation approach to characterize patterns of energy consumption behavior." 2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 2022.

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Gerke, Brian F, Sarah Josephine Smith, Samanvitha Murthy, Aditya Khandekar, Cong Zhang, Sunhee Baik, Shreya Agarwal, Jingjing Liu, Richard E Brown, Mary Ann Piette, and Peter Alstone. Overview of Phase 4 of the California Demand Response Potential Study. Berkeley: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2022.

Paul, Lazlo, Anand Prakash, Kun Zhang, Marco Pritoni, and Richard E Brown. "SolarPlus Optimizer: Integrated Control of Solar, Batteries, and Flexible Loads for Small Commercial Buildings." 2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Pacific Grove, CA: ACEEE, 2022.

Vossos, Vagelis, Daniel L Gerber, Melanie Gaillet-Tournier, Bruce Nordman, Richard E Brown, Willy Bernal Heredia, Omkar Ghatpande, Avijit Saha, Gabe Arnold, and Stephen M Frank. "Adoption Pathways for DC Power Distribution in Buildings." MDPI (2022).

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2021

Touzani, Samir, Anand Prakash, Zhe Wang, Shreya Agarwal, Marco Pritoni, Mariam Kiran, Richard E Brown, and Jessica Granderson. "Controlling distributed energy resources via deep reinforcement learning for load flexibility and energy efficiency." Applied Energy (2021).

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Gerber, Daniel L, Fariborz Musavi, Omkar Ghatpande, Stephen M Frank, Jason Poon, Richard E Brown, and Wei Feng. "A Comprehensive Loss Model and Comparison of AC and DC Boost Converters." Energies 14.11 (2021) 3131.

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2020

Alstone, Peter, Richard E Brown, Marco Pritoni, David Blum, Kun Zhang, and Anand Prakash. "Resilient buildings for fire-adapted landscapes: EE and flexible loads integrated with solar and storage microgrids." ACEEE Summer Study 2020. 2020.

Vossos, Vagelis, Melanie Gaillet-Tournier, Daniel L Gerber, Bruce Nordman, Richard E Brown, Willy Bernal, Omkar Ghatpande, Avijit Saha, Michael Deru, and Stephen Frank. "Direct-DC Power in Buildings: Identifying the Best Applications Today for Tomorrow’s Building Sector." 2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Pacific Grove, CA: ACEEE, 2020.