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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." (2024). DOI

2023

Liu, Jingjing, Lili Yu, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, and Peter Schwartz."Factors Influencing Building Demand Flexibility." (2023). DOI

Gehbauer, Christoph, Douglas R. Black, and Peter Grant."Advanced control strategies to manage electric vehicle drivetrain battery health for Vehicle-to-X applications."Applied Energy 345 (2023) 121296. DOI

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

Forrester, Sydney, Cole Triedman, Sam Kozel, Cameron Brooks, and Peter Cappers."Third-Party Aggregation Rulemaking in MISO and SPP Footprints." (2023).

Langevin, Jared, Aven Satre-Meloy, Andrew Satchwell, Ryan Hledik, Julia Olszewski, Kate Peters, and Handi Chandra-Putra."Demand-side solutions in the U.S. building sector could achieve deep emissions reductions and avoid over $100 billion in power sector costs."One Earth 6.8 (2023) 1005-2031. DOI

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

Granderson, Jessica, Samuel Fernandes, Eliot Crowe, Mrinalini Sharma, David A. Jump, and Devan Johnson."Accuracy of hourly energy predictions for demand flexibility applications."Energy and Buildings Vol.295 No..113297 (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).

Cappers, Peter, Andrew Satchwell, Cameron Brooks, and Sam Kozel."A Snapshot of EV-Specific Rate Designs Among U.S. Investor-Owned Electric Utilities." (2023).

2022

Liu, Jingjing, Rongxin Yin, Lili Yu, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Jiarong Xie, Tianzhen Hong, Monica Neukomm, and Peter Schwartz."Defining and applying an electricity demand flexibility benchmarking metrics framework for grid-interactive efficient commercial buildings."Advances in Applied Energy 8 (2022) 100107. DOI

Ingram, Michael, David Narang, Xiangkun Li, Caitlin Marquis, Debbie Lew, and Sydney Forrester."DER Interconnection Workshop." (2022).

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

Cappers, Peter, and Andrew Satchwell."EVGrid Assist Webinar: Electric Vehicle Rates and Incentives." (2022).

Satchwell, Andrew, Brady Cowiestoll, Elaine Hale, Brian F. Gerke, Paige Jadun, Cong Zhang, and Samanvitha Murthy."Assessing the Interactive Impacts of Energy Efficiency and Demand Response on Power System Costs and Emissions." (2022).

Liu, Jingjing, Lili Yu, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Monica Neukomm, and Amir Roth."Benchmarking Demand Flexibility in Commercial Buildings and Flattening the Duck – Addressing Baseline and Commissioning Challenges."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Prakash, Anand Krishnan, Marco Pritoni, Margarita Kloss, Mary Ann Piette, Michel Kamel, and Dotty Hage."Cloud-Control of Legacy Building Automation System: A case study."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Nordman, Bruce, Marco Pritoni, Mary Ann Piette, and Anand Krishnan Prakash."Communication Requirements for Price-Based Grid Coordination."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Helmns, Dre, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, David Blum, Marco Pritoni, Spencer M. Dutton, Jonathan Woolley, and Subhrajit Chakraborty."Heat Pumps with Phase Change Thermal Storage: Flexible, Efficient, and Electrification Friendly."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Satchwell, Andrew, and Ryan Hledik."Making Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings a “Win” for Both Customers and Utilities."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Murthy, Samanvitha, Brian F. Gerke, Sarah 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).

Gerke, Brian F., Sarah J. 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).

Roth, Amir, Michael Wetter, Kyle Benne, Yan Chen, Gabriel Fierro, Marco Pritoni, Avijit Saha, and Draguna Vrabie."Towards Digital and Performance-Based Supervisory HVAC Control Delivery."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Yu, Lili, Jingjing Liu, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Monica Neukomm, and Amir Roth."When Do Efficiency and Demand Flexibility Go Hand-in-hand?."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI