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2024

Forrester, Sydney, Galen L Barbose, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Naïm R Darghouth."Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2024 Update." (2024).

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."Bill Savings vs. Backup Power: Evaluating operational tradeoffs for home solar+storage systems." (2024).

Wiser, Ryan H, Dev Millstein, Ben Hoen, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Galen L Barbose, Anna Cheyette, Naïm R Darghouth, Seongeun Jeong, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Bentham Paulos, and Joachim Seel."Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2024 Edition." (2024).

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L Barbose, Sudha Kannan, and Jenny Sumner."Evaluating community solar as a measure to promote equitable clean energy access."Nature Energy (2024). DOI

Forrester, Sydney, Cristina Crespo Montañés, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Galen L Barbose."Modeling the potential effects of rooftop solar on household energy burden in the United States."Nature Communications 15 (2024). DOI

Barbose, Galen L."One Year In: Tracking the Impacts of NEM 3.0 on California’s Residential Solar Market." (2024).

2023

Forrester, Sydney, Galen L Barbose, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Naïm R Darghouth, and Cristina Crespo Montañés."Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2023 Update." (2023).

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L Barbose, Alexandra Grayson, Isa Ferrall-Wolf, and Deborah Sunter."Impacts of non-residential solar on residential adoption decisions."Frontiers in Sustainable Energy Policy 2 (2023). DOI

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Cesca Miller, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, and Philip White."Solar+Storage for Household Back-up Power: Implications of building efficiency, load flexibility, and electrification for backup during long-duration power interruptions." (2023).

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Alexandra Grayson, and Galen L Barbose."The role of peer influence in rooftop solar adoption inequity in the United States."Energy Economics 127 (2023). DOI

Baik, Sunhee, Galen L Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Cesca Miller, Will Gorman, and Michael Spears."Backup Power Performance of Solar-plus-Storage Systems during Routine Power Interruptions: A Case Study Application of Berkeley Lab’s PRESTO Model." (2023).

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester."Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States, 2023 Edition." (2023).

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Ben Hoen, Dev Millstein, Joseph Rand, Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Bentham Paulos."Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2023 Edition." (2023).

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, Philip White, and Marlena Prapost."County-level assessment of behind-the-meter solar and storage to mitigate long duration power interruptions for residential customers."Applied Energy 342 (2023). DOI

Barbose, Galen L."U.S. State Renewables Portfolio & Clean Electricity Standards: 2023 Status Update." (2023).

Barbose, Galen L, and Sydney Forrester."Solar PV on U.S. Houses of Worship: Overview of Market Activity and Trends." (2023).

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Sydney Forrester, and Galen L Barbose."Supply sunspots and shadows: Business siting patterns and inequitable rooftop solar adoption in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science 96 (2023). DOI

2022

Forrester, Sydney, Galen L Barbose, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Naïm R Darghouth, and Cristina Crespo Montañés."Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: November 2022 Update." (2022).

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, Philip White, and Marlena Prapost."Evaluating the Capabilities of Behind-the-Meter Solar-plus-Storage for Providing Backup Power during Long-Duration Power Interruptions." (2022).

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester."Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States, 2022 Edition." (2022).

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Ben Hoen, Dev Millstein, Joseph Rand, Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, and Bentham Paulos."Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2022 Edition." (2022).

Forrester, Sydney, Galen L Barbose, and Cesca Miller."Private vs. public value of U.S. residential battery storage operated for solar self-consumption."iScience 25.8 (2022). DOI

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."Batteries Included: Top 10 Findings from Berkeley Lab Research on the Growth of Hybrid Power Plants in the United States." (2022).

Darghouth, Naïm R, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Sydney Forrester, and Galen L Barbose."Characterizing local rooftop solar adoption inequity in the US."Environmental Research Letters 17.3 (2022). DOI

Barbose, Galen L, Sydney Forrester, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Naïm R Darghouth."Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2022 Update." (2022).