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Book Excerpts
R. E. Brown, Electric Power Distribution Reliability, Marcel Dekker, 2002. (Draft chapters for 2nd Edition)
Selected Regulatory Filings
"Undergrounding Assessment
Phase 1 Final Report: Literature Review and Analysis of Electric
Distribution Overhead to Underground Conversion." Prepared for the Florida Electric Utilities and submitted to the Florida Public Service Commission per order PSC-06-0351-PAA-EI [report].
"Undergrounding Assessment
Phase 2 Final Report: Undergrounding Case Studies." Prepared for the Florida Electric Utilities and submitted to the Florida Public Service Commission per order PSC-06-0351-PAA-EI. [report]
"Undergrounding Assessment
Phase 3 Final Report: Ex Ante Cost and Benefit Modeling." Prepared for the Florida Electric Utilities and submitted to the Florida Public Service Commission per order PSC-06-0351-PAA-EI. [report]
"Asset Management and System Reliability Group Review," Prepared for Southern California Edison and submitted to the California Public Service Commission for the 2008 general rate case. [report]
"A Better Measure for Distribution Reliability," Prepared for San Diego Gas & Electric and submitted to the California Public Service Commission for the 2007 general rate case. [report]
"Technical Report: Post Hurricane Wilma Engineering Analysis." Prepared for Florida Power & Light and submitted to the Florida Public Service Commission for the 2005 hurricane cost recovery hearings. [report]
"Aging Distribution Infrastructure at Pacific Gas & Electric." Prepared for Pacific Gas & Electric and submitted to the California Public Service Commission for the 2006 general rate case. [report]
Selected Articles
D. J. Morrow and R. E. Brown, “Future Vision,” IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, Vol. 5, Issue 5, Sept./Oct. 2007, pp. 36-45. [article]
R. E. Brown and H. L. Willis, “The Economics of Aging Infrastructure,” IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3, May/June 2006, pp. 36-43. [article]
R. E. Brown and B. G. Humphrey, “Asset Management for Transmission and Distribution,” IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 3, May/June 2005, pp. 39-45. [article]
R. E. Brown, A. P. Hanson, H. L. Willis,
F. A. Luedtke, M. F. Born, “Assessing the Reliability of Distribution Systems,”
IEEE Computer Applications in Power,
Vol. 14, No. 1, Jan. 2001, pp. 44-49. [article]
Selected Journal Papers
R. E. Brown, M. V. Engel, and J. H. Spare, “Making Sense of Worst Performing Feeders”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 20, No. 2, May 2005, pp. 1173-1178. [paper]
R. E. Brown, G. Frimpong, and H. L. Willis, “Failure Rate Modeling Using Equipment Inspection Data”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 19, No. 2, May 2004, pp. 782-787. [paper]
R. E. Brown and A. P. Hanson, “Impact of Two Stage Service Restoration on Distribution Reliability,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 16, No. 4, Nov. 2001, pp. 624-629. [paper]
R. E. Brown and J. J. Burke, “Managing the Risk of Performance Based Rates,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 15, No. 2, May 2000, pp. 893-898. [paper]
R. E. Brown and M. M. Marshall, “Budget
Constrained Planning to Optimize Power System Reliability,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol.
15, No. 2, May 2000, pp. 887-892. [paper]
R. E. Brown, “The Impact of Heuristic
Initialization on Distribution System Reliability Optimization,” International Journal of Engineering
Intelligent Systems for Electrical Engineering and Communications, Vol. 8,
No. 1, March 2000, pp. 45-52. [paper]
R. E. Brown and J. R. Ochoa, “Impact of
Sub-Cycle Transfer Switches on Distribution System Reliability,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol.
15, No. 1, Feb. 2000, pp. 442-447. [paper]
R. E. Brown, T. M. Taylor, “Modeling
the Impact of Substations on Distribution Reliability,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 14, No. 1, Feb. 1999, pp.
349-354. [paper]
R. E. Brown and J. R. Ochoa, “Distribution System Reliability: Default Data and Model Validation,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 13, No. 2, May 1998, pp. 704-709. [paper]
R. E. Brown, S. Gupta, R. D. Christie,
S. S. Venkata, and R. D. Fletcher, “Distribution System Reliability: Momentary
Interruptions and Storms,” IEEE
Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 12, No. 4, October 1997, pp.
1569-1575. [paper]
R. E. Brown, S. Gupta, R. D. Christie,
S. S. Venkata, and R. D. Fletcher, “Automated Primary Distribution System Design:
Reliability and Cost Optimization,” IEEE
Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 12, No. 2, April 1997, pp. 1017-1022. [paper]
R. E. Brown, S. Gupta, R. D. Christie,
S. S. Venkata, and R. D. Fletcher, “Distribution System Reliability Analysis Using
Hierarchical Markov Modeling,” IEEE
Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 11, No. 4, Oct. 1996, pp. 1929-1934. [paper]
Selected Conference Papers
R. E. Brown, “Pole Hardening Following Hurricane Wilma,” 2007 Southeastern Utility Pole Conference, Tunica, MS, Feb. 2007. [paper]
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