Joe Rand

Joe Rand

Senior Scientific Engineering Associate
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Bio

Joseph (Joe) Rand is a Senior Scientific Engineering Associate in the Electricity Markets and Policy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Joe conducts research and analysis on renewable energy, including: renewable energy policy, cost, and market analysis; spatial data analysis; and research related to public acceptance and deployment barriers of renewable energy.

Previously, Joe worked for the DOE Wind for Schools Program in North Carolina and the KidWind Project, a wind energy science education organization in Minnesota. He was awarded a research fellowship from the Hydro Research Foundation as well as a Switzer Environmental Fellowship in 2015, and the 'Novus Ventus' award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Wind Power Program in 2015.

Joe holds a master’s degree in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies from Macalester College.

Awards

Spot: Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Joachim Seel
February 24th 2022
Spot: IEA Wind Expert Survey Team
November 30th 2020

Publications

2022

“After the leases are signed, it's a done deal”: Exploring procedural injustices for utility-scale wind energy planning in the United States

Authors: Elmallah, Salma, and Joseph Rand.
07/2022

In the shadow of wind energy: Predicting community exposure and annoyance to wind turbine shadow flicker in the United States

Authors: Haac, , Ryan; Ryan Darlow; Ken Kaliski; Joseph Rand, and Ben Hoen.
05/2022

Expert perspectives on the wind plant of the future

Authors: Beiter, Philipp; Joseph Rand; Joachim Seel; Eric Lantz; Patrick Gilman, and Ryan H. Wiser.
05/2022

US Wind Turbine Database Files

Authors: Hoen, Ben; James Diffendorfer; Joseph Rand; Louisa Kramer; Chris Garrity, and Hannah Hunt.
04/2022

Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2021

Authors: Rand, Joseph; Ryan H. Wiser; Will Gorman; Dev Millstein; Joachim Seel; Seongeun Jeong, and Dana Robson.
04/2022

Batteries Included: Top 10 Findings from Berkeley Lab Research on the Growth of Hybrid Power Plants in the United States

Authors: Seel, Joachim; Will Gorman; Galen L. Barbose; Mark Bolinger; Cristina Crespo Montañés; Sydney Forrester; James Hyungkwan Kim; Fredrich Kahrl; Andrew D. Mills; Dev Millstein; Bentham Paulos; Joseph Rand; Cody Warner, and Ryan H. Wiser.
04/2022

Understanding Costs Associated with Wind Energy Opposition and Stakeholder Engagement

Authors: Gill, Elizabeth, and Joseph Rand.
04/2022

2021

Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2021 Edition

Authors: Wiser, Ryan H.; Mark Bolinger; Ben Hoen; Dev Millstein; Joseph Rand; Galen L. Barbose; Naïm R. Darghouth; Will Gorman; Seongeun Jeong; Andrew D. Mills, and Ben Paulos.
08/2021

Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Installed and Proposed Projects

Authors: Bolinger, Mark; Will Gorman; Joseph Rand; Ryan H. Wiser; Seongeun Jeong; Joachim Seel; Cody Warner, and Bentham Paulos.
07/2021

Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2020

Authors: Rand, Joseph; Mark Bolinger; Ryan H. Wiser; Seongeun Jeong, and Bentham Paulos.
05/2021

Expert elicitation survey predicts 37% to 49% declines in wind energy costs by 2050

Authors: Wiser, Ryan H.; Joseph Rand; Joachim Seel; Philipp Beiter; Erin Baker; Eric Lantz, and Patrick Gilman.
04/2021

Halfway to Zero: Progress towards a Carbon-Free Power Sector

Authors: Wiser, Ryan H.; Dev Millstein; Joseph Rand; Paul Donohoo-Vallett; Patrick Gilman, and Trieu Mai.
04/2021

2020

Wind Energy Technology Data Update: 2020 Edition

Authors: Wiser, Ryan H.; Mark Bolinger; Ben Hoen; Dev Millstein; Joseph Rand; Galen L. Barbose; Naïm R. Darghouth; Will Gorman; Seongeun Jeong; Andrew D. Mills, and Ben Paulos.
08/2020

Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Installed and Proposed Projects

Authors: Wiser, Ryan H.; Mark Bolinger; Will Gorman; Joseph Rand; Seongeun Jeong; Joachim Seel; Cody Warner, and Ben Paulos.
07/2020

A continuously updated, geospatially rectified database of utility-scale wind turbines in the United States

Authors: Rand, Joseph; Louisa Kramer; Christopher Garrity; Ben Hoen; James Diffendorfer; Hannah Hunt, and Michael Spears.
01/2020

Opportunities for and Challenges to Further Reductions in the “Specific Power” Rating of Wind Turbines Installed in the United States

Authors: Bolinger, Mark; Eric Lantz; Ryan H. Wiser; Ben Hoen; Joseph Rand, and Robert Hammond.
01/2020

2019

Attitudes of U.S. Wind Turbine Neighbors: Analysis of a Nationwide Survey

Authors: Hoen, Ben; Jeremy Firestone; Joseph Rand; Debi Elliott; Gundula Hübner; Johannes Pohl; Ryan H. Wiser; Eric Lantz; Ryan Haac, and Ken Kaliski.
11/2019

Monitoring annoyance and stress effects of wind turbines on nearby residents: A comparison of U.S. and European samples

Authors: Hübner, Gundula; Johannes Pohl; Ben Hoen; Jeremy Firestone; Debi Elliott; Joseph Rand, and Ryan Haac.
11/2019

Commercial PV Property Characterization: An Analysis of Solar Deployment Trends in Commercial Real Estate

Authors: Hoen, Ben; Joseph Rand, and Salma Elmallah.
10/2019

Wind turbine audibility and noise annoyance in a national U.S. survey: Individual perception and influencing factors

Authors: Haac, , Ryan; Ken Kaliski; Matt Landis; Ben Hoen; Joseph Rand; Jeremy Firestone; Debi Elliott; Gundula Hübner, and Johannes Pohl.
08/2019

2018

Tracking the Sun: Installed Price Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States - 2018 Edition

Authors: Barbose, Galen L.; Naïm R. Darghouth; Kristina Hamachi LaCommare; Dev Millstein, and Joseph Rand.
09/2018

2017

Reconsidering Barriers to Wind Power Projects: Community Engagement, Developer Transparency and Place

Authors: Firestone, Jeremy; Ben Hoen; Joseph Rand; Debi Elliott; Gundula Hübner, and Johannes Pohl.
12/2017

Thirty years of North American wind energy acceptance research: What have we learned?

Authors: Rand, Joseph, and Ben Hoen.
06/2017

2015 Cost of Wind Energy Review

Authors: Moné, Christopher; M Maureen Hand; Mark Bolinger; Joseph Rand; Donna Heimiller, and Jonathan Ho.
03/2017

Leasing Into the Sun A Mixed Method Analysis of Transactions of Homes with Third Party Owned Solar

Authors: Hoen, Ben; Joseph Rand, and Sandra Adomatis.
01/2017

2016

2015 Wind Technologies Market Report

Authors: Wiser, Ryan H.; Mark Bolinger; Galen L. Barbose; Naïm R. Darghouth; Ben Hoen; Andrew D. Mills; Joseph Rand; Dev Millstein; Kevin Porter; Rebecca Widiss; Frank Oteri; Suzanne Tegen, and Tian Tian.
08/2016