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Michael Brown joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in 2023 as a power systems research engineer. There, he works on both distribution and transmission system modeling work. This includes research into the impacts of geomagnetic disturbances, code development work for the North American Energy Resilience Model, and microgrid project development and modeling. 

Before PNNL, Brown worked at Dominion Energy in the distributed energy resources (DER) Integration and Strategy group. There, he focused on interconnection studies for third-party DER sites and was the technical leader for two energy storage system pilot projects. Additionally, Brown initiated a pilot project for a Mobile Energy Storage System. Brown also led the development of a Python-based toolkit for the DER group, including a transformer loading analysis tool for battery energy storage system interconnect studies, a customer data review tool for the Mobile Energy Storage project, and an interconnect study automation tool.

• Distributed energy resources
• Electrical distribution design
• Transmission system modeling
• Electromagnetic transient studies
• Interdomain energy modeling
• Python

• MS in electric power systems engineering, North Carolina State University
• BS in electrical engineering, North Carolina State University

2025

• Sharma, R., A. Ovalle, R. F. Arritt, T. J. Overbye, A. Bretas, and M. D. Brown. 2025. “GMD Integrated Tool (GeoIT): An Integrated Tool for Performing Geomagnetic Disturbance Vulnerability Assessment Studies.” In IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC 2025), February 10–11, 2025, College Station, Texas, pp. 1–6. Piscataway, New Jersey: IEEE. PNNL-SA-208018. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEC63981.2025.10906874.
• Paramo, G., A. Bretas, M. Brown, and J. Reidt. 2025. “The Impact of Transmission Line Model Selection on GMD Simulation Results.” 2025 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Austin, Texas, pp. 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM52009.2025.11225593.
• Ovalle, A., R. Sharma, R. Arritt, M. Brown, and A. Bretas. 2025. “Benchmarking the Geomagnetically Induced Currents Related Harmonics Analysis Tool (GICharm) Against Time-Domain Simulation.” 2025 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, Texas, pp. 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEC63981.2025.10907111.