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2026
Pereira, Flavia De Andrade, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Jessica Granderson, Lazlo Paul, Anand Prakash, Conor Shaw, Dimitrios Rovas, Susana Martin-Toral, Donal Finn, and James O’Donnell."Bridging semantics, control specifications and assessment: A library for scalable demand flexibility controls."Control Engineering Practice
172 (2026) 106899. DOI
Ham, Sang woo, Donghun Kim, Lazlo Paul, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, Richard E Brown, and Marco Pritoni."Machine learning-enhanced MPC for demand flexibility in small commercial buildings: An experimental study."Energy and Buildings
360 (2026) 117324. DOI
Less, Brennan, and Iain S Walker."Characterizing peak electricity demand for U.S. households: an assessment of end-use loads and demand factors."Applied Energy
410 (2026) 127422. DOI
Shackelford, Jordan."Project Report: School Retrofit Demonstration of Lighting and Outlet Controls with LED Upgrades."
(2026). DOI
Pritoni, Marco, Anand Prakash, Lazlo Paul, Weiping Huang, Roman Kukharchuk, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Matthias Sulzer, and Michael Wetter."Digitalizing Building Control Deployment for Retrofits: A Case Study on Demand-Flexible Control Sequences."IBPSA-USA Building Simulation Conference
12 (2026). DOI
Mulayim, Ozan Baris, Anand Prakash, Yuvraj Agarwal, Mario Bergés, Marco Pritoni, Derek Supple, Steve Schaefer, and Mitali Shah."Semantic Technologies in Practical Demand Response: An Information Requirement-based Roadmap."Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems
(2026) 670-694. DOI
2025
Meier, Alan K, Joshua Butzbaugh, and Wyatt Merrill."Cross-cutting strategies to lower electricity use of miscellaneous electric loads in the domestic sector."Energy Efficiency
18.6 (2025). DOI
Leong, Michael, Medha Mahanta, Clara Yin, Timothy Jairus Garcia, Zach Tan, Anand Prakash, Doug Black, and Rongxin Yin."DFAT: A web-based toolkit for estimating demand flexibility in building-to-grid integration."SoftwareX
30 (2025) 102131. DOI
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. DOI
Mulayim, Ozan Baris, Avia Anwar, Umut Mete Saka, Lazlo Paul, Anand Prakash, Gabe Fierro, Marco Pritoni, and Mario Bergés."BuildingQA: A Benchmark for Natural Language Question Answering over Building Knowledge Graphs."Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation
(2025) 65-75. DOI
Pritoni, Marco, and Thomas Mills."Demonstration Trials of AI/ML Edge+Cloud Suite (CRADA Final Report)."
(2025). DOI
Grant, Peter, Noah Gabriel, Weiping Huang, and Tao Yang."Field Demonstration of Cost Minimizing Load Shifting Controls for 120V Heat Pump Water Heaters in Different Pricing Scenarios."2025 ASHRAE Annual Conference
(2025). DOI
Paul, Lazlo, Flavia De Andrade Pereira, Anand Prakash, Sang woo Ham, Jingjuan Feng, Rich Brown, and Marco Pritoni."Open building operating system: a grid-responsive semantics-driven control platform for buildings."Science and Technology for the Built Environment
31.3 (2025) 294-311. DOI
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).
Pereira, Flavia De Andrade, Lazlo Paul, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, Weiping Huang, Conor Shaw, Susana Martin-Toral, Donal Finn, and James O’ Donnell."Enabling portable demand flexibility control applications in virtual and real buildings."Journal of Building Engineering
86 (2024) 108645. DOI
Nordman, Bruce, Margarita Kloss, Bijit Kundu, Nate Dewart, Anand Prakash, Laura Wong, Alanna Torres, Rachel Levine, Marco Pritoni, Jordan Shackelford, Heidi Werner, Rahul Athalye, Aditya Khandekar, Callie Clark, Chris Uraine, and Rebecca Aviles."Energy Reporting: Device Demonstration, Communication Protocols, and Codes and Standards."
(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). DOI
Kolln, Jaime, Jingjing Liu, Steve Widergren, and Richard E Brown."Common Grid Services: Terms and Definitions Report."
(2023). DOI
Méndez, Juana Isabel, Pedro Ponce, Alan K Meier, Therese Peffer, Omar Mata, and Arturo Molina."Empower saving energy into smart communities using social products with a gamification structure for tailored Human–Machine Interfaces within smart homes."International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM)
17.3 (2023) 1363 - 1387. DOI
Mata, Omar, Juana Isabel Méndez, Pedro Ponce, Therese Peffer, Alan K Meier, and Arturo Molina."Energy Savings in Buildings Based on Image Depth Sensors for Human Activity Recognition."Energies
16.3 (2023) 1078. DOI
2022
Liu, Jingjing, Steve Windergren, Jaime Kolln, Sonny Xue, Ted Bohn, and Richard E Brown."State of Common Grid Services Definitions."
(2022).
Meier, Alan K, Abigail A Daken, and Leo I Rainer."Long-term trends in connected thermostat performance."The ECEEE 2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency
(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).
Butzbaugh, Joshua, Kini Roshan, and Alan K Meier."International Actions to Reduce Miscellaneous Electrical Loads Energy Consumption."Energy Efficient Domestic Appliances and Lighting
(2022).
2021
Rainer, Leo I, Alan K Meier, and Robert Hosbach."Energy use of residential safety, security, and health devices."Energy and Buildings
250 (2021) 111217. DOI