The California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE) is pleased to welcome Rich Brown as an academic researcher!
Brown holds an M.A. from the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley and a B.S.E. in Engineering and Management Systems from Princeton University. He comes to CIEE from over 30 years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he led a variety of projects on energy in buildings and regularly collaborated with CIEE researchers and UC faculty.
As part of CIEE, Brown will work on the Oakland EcoBlock project, which is developing and demonstrating neighborhood-scale approaches to decarbonizing the existing building stock. His research interests and expertise spans a wide range of topics in the development of technologies to reduce building energy use, including grid-interactive buildings; intelligent management of distributed energy resources; and direct current (DC) power distribution in buildings.
What does Brown look forward to the most during his time with CIEE? “My goal is to serve the public interest by developing practical, scalable climate solutions while working with incredible colleagues and students,” he said.