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2009

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, Olivier Mégel, Judy Lai, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."The Added Economic and Environmental Value of Solar Thermal Systems in Microgrids with Combined Heat and Power." (2009) 13.

Marnay, Chris, Judy Lai, Michael Stadler, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."Added Value of Reliability to a Microgrid: Simulations of Three California Buildings."Cigré Integration of Wide-Scale Renewable Resources into the Power Delivery System, July 29-31, 2009 (2009) 9.

Stadler, Michael, and Timothy E. Lipman."California CHP Greenhouse Gas Abatement: Contribution of Medium-Sized Commercial Buildings." (2009).

Stadler, Michael."Optimal Building Technology Selection and Operation: A Systemic Approach." (2009).

Eto, Joseph H, Robert H. Lasseter, Ben Schenkman, John Stevens, David Klapp, Harry T. Volkommer, Ed Linton, Hector Hurtado, and Jean Roy."Overview of the CERTS microgid laboratory test bed."Integration of Wide-Scale Renewable Resources into the Power Delivery System, CIGRE/IEEE PES Joint Symposium (2009).

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Afzal S. Siddiqui, and Hirohisa Aki."Control of Carbon Emissions in Zero-Net-Energy Buildings by Optimal Technology Investments in Smart Energy Systems and Demand-Side-Management."32nd IAEE International Conference, Energy, Economy, Environment: The Global View. June 21-24, 2009 (2009).

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Judy Lai, and Hirohisa Aki."Integrated building energy systems design considering storage technologies."ECEEE 2009 Summer Study, June 1-6, 2009 (2009).

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Judy Lai, Brian E. Coffey, and Hirohisa Aki."Effect of Heat and Electricity Storage and Reliability on Microgrid Viability: A Study of Commercial Buildings in California and New York States." (2009) 106.

Marnay, Chris."Microgrids: Providing Energy Services Locally." (2009).

Eto, Joseph H, Robert H. Lasseter, Ben Schenkman, John Stevens, Harry T. Volkommer, David Klapp, Ed Linton, Hector Hurtado, Jean Roy, and Nancy J. Lewis."CERTS Microgrid Laboratory Test Bed (California Energy Commission Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program Final Report."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2009).

Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions, ."CERTS Microgrid Phase Two Results." (2009) 31.

Komiyama, Ryoichi, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, Inês Lima Azevedo, Sam Borgeson, Brian E. Coffey, and Judy Lai."Japan's Energy Outlook for 2050 with Stochastic Sectoral Modeling."IEEJ Energy Journal of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan 4 (2009).

Komiyama, Ryoichi, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, Judy Lai, Sam Borgeson, Brian E. Coffey, and Inês Lima Azevedo."Japan's Long-term Energy Demand and Supply Scenario to 2050 - Estimation for the Potential of Massive CO₂ Mitigation."IEEJ Energy Journal of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan 4 (2009).

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, Olivier Mégel, Judy Lai, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."The Added Economic and Environmental Value of Solar Thermal Systems in Microgrids with Combined Heat and Power."3rd International Conference on Solar Air-Conditioning, September 30 – October 2, 2009 (2009) 11.

2008

Stadler, Michael."The Distributed Energy Resources Costumer Adoption Model (DER-CAM) for Building Energy Use Optimization." (2008).

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Inês Lima Azevedo, Hirohisa Aki, Ryoichi Komiyama, and Judy Lai."Radical Rethinking in Building Energy Forecasting - The Open Source Stochastic Building Simulation Tool SLBM."2008 Behavior Energy and Climate Change Conference, November 16-19, 2008 (2008).

Marnay, Chris, and Michael Stadler."Optimizing Building Energy Use: A Systemic Approach." (2008).

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Inês Lima Azevedo, Hirohisa Aki, Ryoichi Komiyama, and Judy Lai."The Stochastic Building Simulation Tool SLBM and its New Energy Forecasting Approach."Fifth Annual California Climate Change Conference, September 8-10, 2008 (2008).

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Sam Borgeson, Brian E. Coffey, Ryoichi Komiyama, and Judy Lai."A Buildings Module for the Stochastic Energy Deployment System."ACEEE 2008 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2008).

Stadler, Michael, and Chris Marnay."Dezentrale Energieversorgung mit Speichertechnologien." (2008) 5.

Stadler, Michael, Hirohisa Aki, Ryan M. Firestone, Judy Lai, Chris Marnay, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."Distributed Energy Resources On-Site Optimization for Commercial Buildings with Electric and Thermal Storage Technologies."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Scaling Up: Building Tomorrow's Solutions, August 17-22, 2008 (2008).

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Ryan M. Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Commercial-Building Microgrids."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 23.3 (2008) 975-982. DOI

Marnay, Chris."Microgrids and Heterogeneous Power Quality and Reliability." (2008) 13.

Marnay, Chris, and Michael Stadler."Microgrids, CHP, Storage, Heterogenous Power Quality and Reliability, and Uncertainty." (2008).

Venkataramanan, Giri, and Chris Marnay."A Larger Role for Microgrids: Are Microgrids a Viable Paradigm for Electricity Supply Expansion?."IEEE Power & Energy Magazine May/June (2008) 5.