Publications

X Author: Richard E Brown

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).
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).
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. DOI
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." (2024). DOI
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). DOI

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

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). DOI
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. DOI

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).
Prakash, Anand, Kun Zhang, Pranav Gupta, David Blum, Marc Marshall, Gabe Fierro, Peter Alstone, James Zoellic, Richard E Brown, and Marco Pritoni."Solar+ Optimizer: A Model Predictive Control Optimization Platform for Grid Responsive Building Microgrids."Energies 13.12 (2020) 3093. DOI
Kramer, Hannah, Rui Tang, Richard E Brown, Claire Curtin, and Jessica Granderson."Market Brief: Customer-sited Distributed Energy Resources." (2020). DOI
Brown, Richard E, Peter Schwartz, Bruce Nordman, Jordan Shackelford, Aditya Khandekar, Neal Jackson, Anand Prakash, Srijit Ghosh, and Erik Page."Developing Flexible, Networked Lighting Control Systems That Reliably Save Energy in California Buildings." (2020). DOI

2019

Santos, Arthur F.B, James Cale, Anushree Singh, Daniel L Gerber, Stephen Frank, Gerald P Duggan, Daniel Zimmerle, and Richard E Brown."Comparison of Load Models for Estimating Electrical Efficiency in DC Microgrids."2019 IEEE Third International Conference on DC Microgrids (ICDCM) (2019). DOI
Gerber, Daniel L, Richard Liou, and Richard E Brown."Energy-saving opportunities of direct-DC loads in buildings."Applied Energy 248 (2019) 274 - 287. DOI
Singh, Reshma, Mary Ann Piette, Ashok J Gadgil, Rajan Rawal, Narendra Bansal, Vishal Garg, Jyotirmay Mathur, Philip Haves, Paul A Mathew, Christian Kohler, Mahabir Bhandari, Gail Brager, Vivian Loftness, Narendran Nadarajah, Ronnen M Levinson, Richard E Brown, Andre Desjarlais, Milind Rane, Sanyogita Manu, Yash Shukla, and Mona Doctor-Pingel."R&D and Implementation Outcomes From The U.S.-India Bilateral Center For Building Energy Research And Development Program." (2019). DOI
Barr, Zach, Norman Bourassa, John Bowie, Richard E Brown, Nora DeCuir, H. H Jordan Diamond, Amy Dryden, Ethan Elkind, Harrison Fraker, Wenjie Fu, Ethan Guy, Daniel Hamilton, Ted Lamm, Maika Nicholson, Leo Rainer, Sandy Robertson, Christine Scott Thomson, Emma Tome, and Andréa Traber."Accelerating the Deployment of Advanced Energy Communities: The Oakland EcoBlock A Zero Net Energy, Low Water Use Retrofit Neighborhood Demonstration Project." (2019).
Meier, Alan K, Richard E Brown, Daniel L Gerber, Aditya Khandekar, Margarita Kloss, Hidemitsu Koyanagi, Richard Liou, Leo I Rainer, and Seth Sanders."Efficient and Zero Net Energy-Ready Plug Loads." (2019).