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Personal Profile
Patrick Brown is a member of the Transmission Group in the Grid Planning and Analysis Center. His research focuses on improving the representation of renewable energy, transmission, and energy storage in long-term power system planning models to support rapid decarbonization. Brown contributes to the development of the Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) capacity-expansion model and has experience in geospatial analysis, linear programming, and data visualization.
Research Interests
Contribution of variable renewables, energy storage, and transmission to electricity system resource adequacy
Transmission expansion planning
Fossil-fuel-free energy systems
Professional Experience
Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT Energy Initiative (2016–2020)
Summer Undergraduate Laboratory Intern, NLR (2009)
Summer Undergraduate Laboratory Intern, NLR (2008)
Education/Academic Qualification
PhD, Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor, Physics and Chemistry, University of Notre Dame
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Collaborations and Top Research Areas From the Past 5 Years
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What Can We Learn from US National Transmission Studies? Article No. 102339
Mai, T., Brown, P., Palchak, D., Brinkman, G., Brooks, A., Denholm, P., Gramlich, R., Homer, J., Lew, D., Kuna, J., Okullo, J., Pfeifenberger, J., Rose, A., Simeone, C. & Wright, J., 2026, In: Joule. 10, 2, 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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An Interregional Optimization Approach for Time Series Aggregation in Continent-Scale Electricity System Models: Article No. 135830
Brown, P., Cole, W. & Mai, T., 2025, In: Energy. 324, 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) Model Documentation: 2025
Avraam, C., Ayad, A., Brown, P., Carag, V., Chen, Y., Chernyakhovskiy, I., Cohen, S., Cole, W., Dhulipala, S., Duraes de Faria, V., Gagnon, P., Halloran, C., Hamilton, A., Ho, J., Karmakar, A., Lavin, L., Mai, T., Mindermann, K., Mowers, J. & Mowers, M. & 12 others, , 2025, 160 p.Research output: NLR › Technical Report
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2024 Standard Scenarios Report: A U.S. Electricity Sector Outlook
Gagnon, P., Pham, A., Cole, W., Hamilton, A., Awara, S., Barlas, A., Brown, M., Brown, P., Carag, V., Cohen, S., Chen, Y., Das, P., Dhulipala, S., Gonzalez, N., Ho, J., Inskeep, S., Karmakar, A., Lavin, L., Lopez, A. & Mai, T. & 15 others, , 2024, 105 p.Research output: NLR › Technical Report
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Getting to 100%: Six Strategies for the Challenging Last 10%
Cole, W., Mai, T., Denholm, P., Brown, P., Hale, E., Lamers, P., Murphy, C., Ruth, M., Sergi, B., Steinberg, D. & Baldwin, S., 2024, 17 p.Research output: NLR › Presentation