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My areas of interest are:

• Climate adaptation for electricity infrastructure

• Implications and equity of renewable energy deployment on electricity distribution systems

• Electrification as a strategy for increasing sustainability and equity

• Decision-making about the future of electric power systems amid growing risks and increasing public scrutiny

Peer-reviewed journals

• Can distribution grid infrastructure accommodate residential electrification and electric vehicle adoption in Northern California? Elmallah, S.,* Brockway, A.M.,* & Callaway, D. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability (2022). Preprint as Energy Institute at Haas Working Paper, June 2022. *co-first authors
  ‣‣‣ Accompanied by EI at Haas blog post

• Climate-aware decision-making: lessons for electric grid infrastructure planning and operations. Brockway, A.M., Wang, L., Dunn, L.N., Callaway, D., & Jones, A. Environmental Research Letters (2022).
  ‣‣‣ Accompanied by LBNL blog post

• Inequitable access to distributed energy resources due to grid infrastructure limits in California. Brockway, A.M., Conde, J., & Callaway, D. Nature Energy (2021). Open access here.
  ‣‣‣ Accompanied by Utility Dive op-ed
  ‣‣‣ Press coverage: The Los Angeles Times, Forbes, The Hill, WIRED, The Daily Cal

• Weathering Adaptation: Grid Infrastructure Planning in a Changing Climate. Brockway, A.M.* & Dunn, L.N.* Climate Risk Management (2020). Preprint on arxiv, December 2019. *co-first authors
  ‣‣‣ Accompanied by SF Chronicle op-ed [PDF view]
  ‣‣‣ Press coverage: IEEE Spectrum

• Emissions reduction potential from electric heat pumps in California homes. Brockway, A.M. & Delforge, P. The Electricity Journal (2018).
  ‣‣‣ Accompanied by NRDC blog post

• A suite of metrics for assessing the performance of solar power forecasting. Zhang, J. et al. Solar Energy (2015).

Technical reports & white papers

• Gas Planning and Reliability in California. Brockway, A. California Public Utilities Commission, Energy Division, December 2021.

• Community Solar in California: A Missed Opportunity. Weissman, S., Brockway, A.M. Center for Sustainable Energy, February 2018.

• Distributed Generation Planning: A Case Study Comparison of California and New York Proceedings. Brockway, A.M. & Weissman, S. Center for Sustainable Energy, April 2017.

• Shared Solar: Current Landscape, Market Potential, and the Impact of Federal Securities Regulation. Feldman, D., Brockway, A.M., Ulrich, E., Margolis, R. National Renewable Energy Laboratory Technical Report (NREL/TP-6A20-63892), April 2015.

Op-eds & general audience

• California's omission of community solar from distributed energy policies is short-sighted. Brockway, A., Callaway, D. OpEd, Utility Dive. February 2022.

• California must prepare its electric grid for complex climate risks. Brockway, A., Dunn, L., Weissman, S. OpEd, San Francisco Chronicle. August 2020. [PDF view for non-subscribers]

• No Roof, No Problem: Shared Solar Programs Make Solar Possible For You. Blog post, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy. January 2015.

• Shared Solar Projects Powering Households Throughout America. Blog post, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy. January 2014.

Just for fun

• Getting More Out of the Wind: Extending Betz's Law to Multiple Turbines. Broberg, D., Shah, D., Drapcho, S., Brockway, A. arXiv:1805.01938, 2018.

Academic and professional

• Shared Solar: Opportunity and Market Potential for Community-Based Approaches to Solar Deployment. Interagency roundtable, White House Council on Environmental Quality (2014).

• Democratizing Solar: Crowdfunding and Community Solar. Invited panelist. U.S. Solar Market Insight Conference hosted by Greentech Media (2013).

• Additional talks on innovative business models for solar deployment at: 

  • Wisconsin Public Utilities Institute (2016)

  • Solar Energy Industries Association (webinar, 2015)

  • Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Energy, Resources, & Environment Program (2014 & 2015)

  • Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (2014)

  • U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Sustainable Communities Initiative (2013)

Teaching

• "Renewable Electricity" — Guest lecture to 150-person introductory undergraduate class, Environmental Science for Sustainable Development. Department of Landscape Architecture, UC Berkeley. 2018-2021. 

• "The SunShot Initiative and Solar Policy" — Guest lecture in graduate seminar, Renewable Energy Policy in the United States. Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley. 2017-2022.

• "Electricity and the Grid" — Guest lecture in grad/undergrad seminar, Energy Regulation. Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley. 2017.

• "Renewable energy and the electric grid" — Guest lecture as a returning alumna to two high school A.P. Physics classes. Mounds View High School, Arden Hills, MN. Dec 2018.

• "Solar Power in the United States: On the Way to a Renewable Energy Future" — Invited alumni speaker, Chemistry Department at Haverford College. 2014. 

Chemistry and materials science

• Entropy-Driven Molecular Separations in 2D-Nanoporous Materials, with Application to High-Performance Paraffin/Olefin Membrane Separations. Solvik, K., Weaver, J., Brockway, A.M. & Schrier, J.  Journal of Physical Chemistry C 117, 17050–17057 (2013).

• Noble Gas Separation using PG-ES X ( X = 1, 2, 3) Nanoporous Two- Dimensional Polymers. Brockway, A.M. & Schrier, J. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 117, 393–402 (2013).

• The Harvard Clean Energy Project: Large-Scale Computational Screening and Design of Organic Photovoltaics on the World Community Grid. Hachmann, J. et al.  Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2, 2241–2251 (2011).