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2012

Stadler, Michael, Gonçalo Cardoso, Mohammad Bozchalui, Ratnesh Sharma, Chris Marnay, Afzal S. Siddiqui, and Markus Groissböck."Microgrid Modeling Using the Stochasting Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model (DER-CAM)." (2012).

Feng, Wei, Nan Zhou, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, and Judy Lai."Building Distributed Energy Performance Optimization for China - a Regional Analysis of Building Energy Costs and CO₂ Emissions."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 12-17, 2012 (2012).

DeForest, Nicholas, Michael Stadler, Chris Marnay, and Jonathan Donadee."Microgrid Dispatch for Macrogrid Peak-Demand Mitigation."2011 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Mendes, Gonçalo, Michael Stadler, Chris Marnay, Paulo Ferrão, and Chistos Loakimidis."Modeling of Plug-in Electric Vehicles' Interactions with a Sustainable Community Grid in the Azores."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 12-17, 2012 (2012).

Mendes, Gonçalo, Paulo Ferrão, Christos Ioakimidis, Michael Stadler, and Chris Marnay."Multi-building microgrids for a distributed energy future in Portugal."International Conference on Applied Energy, ICAE 2012 (2012).

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Maximillian Kloess, Gonçalo Cardoso, Gonçalo Mendes, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Ratnesh Sharma, Olivier Mégel, and Judy Lai."Optimal Planning and Operation of Smart Grids with Electric Vehicle Interconnection."Journal of Energy Engineering, Special Issue: Challenges and opportunities in the 21st century energy infrastructure 138.2 (2012) 95-108. DOI

Marnay, Chris, Steven Lanzisera, Michael Stadler, and Judy Lai."Building Scale DC Microgrids."2012 IEEE Energytech (2012).

Beer, Sebastian, Tomás Gómez, David Dallinger, Ilan Momber, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, and Judy Lai."An Economic Analysis of Used Electric Vehicle Batteries Integrated into Commercial Building Microgrids."IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid 3 (2012).

Marnay, Chris, Nicholas DeForest, and Judy Lai."A Green Prison: The Santa Rita Jail Campus Microgrid." (2012).

Marnay, Chris, Nan Zhou, Min Qin, and John Romankiewicz."Lessons Learned from Microgrid Demonstrations Worldwide." (2012).

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Nicholas DeForest, Joseph H Eto, Gonçalo Cardoso, Andrea A. Mammoli, Hans Barsun, Richard Burnett, David Klapp, and Judy Lai."Web-Based Economic and Environmental Optimization of Microgrids."2012 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (2012). DOI

2011

Groissböck, Markus, Michael Stadler, Thomas Edlinger, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Somayeh Heydari, and Eugenio Perea."The First Step for Implementing a Stochastic based Energy Management System at Campus Pinkafeld."E-nova International Congress, November 24-25, 2011 (2011).

Haas, Reinhard, Hans Auer, and Michael Stadler."Introducing Competition in the Western European electricity market: A Critical Review."ENER Forum 2. Monitoring the progress of the implementation of the EU Gas and Electricity Directives: Are European markets becoming competitive? November 15-16, 2011 (2011).

Morris, Greg Young, Chad Abbey, Geza Joos, and Chris Marnay."A Framework for the Evaluation of the Cost and Benefits of Microgrids."CIGRÉ International Symposium, The electric power system of the future - Integrating supergrids and microgrids (2011).

Marnay, Chris, Bruce Nordman, and Judy Lai."Future Roles of Milli-, Micro-, and Nano- Grids."CIGRÉ International Symposium The electric power system of the future - Integrating supergrids and microgrids (2011).

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Ratnesh Sharma, Gonçalo Mendes, Maximillian Kloess, Gonçalo Cardoso, Olivier Mégel, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."Modeling Electric Vehicle Benefits Connected to Smart Grids."7th IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (2011).

Groissböck, Markus, Michael Stadler, and Thomas Edlinger."Work Package 1: Requirements Analysis, EnRiMa Validatoin Test Site Report for the University of Applied Science Burfenland, Pinkafeld Campus."Working Paper of Work Package 1 of the EnRiMa project. EnRiMa a reserach project withint the 7th framework programme of the European Commision (2011).

Stadler, Michael, Jonathan Donadee, Chris Marnay, Gonçalo Mendes, Jan von Appen, Olivier Mégel, Prajesh Bhattacharya, Nicholas DeForest, and Judy Lai."Application of the Software as a Service Model to the Control of Complex Building Systems."ECEEE Summer Study, June 6-11, 2011 (2011).

Klapp, David, R. Zimmerly, and J. Howard."CERTS Microgrid Mechanical Switch Test Report." (2011).

Eto, Joseph H."CERTS Microgrid Test Bed Phase III Activities." (2011).

Lai, Judy, Nicholas DeForest, Sila Kiliccote, Michael Stadler, Chris Marnay, and Jonathan Donadee."Evaluation of evolving residential electricity tariffs."ECEEE Summer Study, June 6-11, 2011 (2011).

Marnay, Chris, Nicholas DeForest, Michael Stadler, Jonathan Donadee, Carlos Dierckxsens, Gonçalo Mendes, Judy Lai, and Gonçalo Cardoso."A Green Prison: Santa Rita Jail Creeps Towards Zero Net Energy (ZNE)."ECEEE Summer Study, June 6-11, 2011 (2011).

Edlinger, Thomas, Michael Stadler, and Markus Groissböck."Work Package 1: Requirements Analysis, EnRiMa Validation Test Site Report for the office building ENERGYbase."Working Paper of Work Package 1 of the EnRiMa project. EnRiMa a research project within the 7th framework programme of the European Commission (2011).

DeForest, Nicholas, Judy Lai, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Mendes, Chris Marnay, and Jonathan Donadee."Integration & Operation of a Microgrid at Santa Rita Jail."Jeju 2011 Symposium on Microgrids, Jeju Island, Korea, May 27 - 28, 2011 (2011).

Stadler, Michael, Gonçalo Cardoso, Nicholas DeForest, Jonathan Donadee, Tomás Gómez, Judy Lai, Chris Marnay, Olivier Mégel, Gonçalo Mendes, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."Smart buildings with electric vehicle interconnection as buffer for local renewables?."Researching the Intelligent City: Key Challenges of Integrating Urban Energy and Mobility Systems Research Symposium (2011).