Publications

2026

Wiser, Ryan H, Galen L Barbose, Peter Cappers, Will Gorman, Sean Murphy, Lisa C Schwartz, Natalie Mims Frick, Guillermo Pereira, Arthur Mallet Dias, Jessalyn Chuang, and Vinita Srinivasan."Electric Utility Distribution Costs: Scoping Study on Trends, Drivers, and Possible Response Strategies." (2026).

Wiser, Ryan H, Galen L Barbose, Will Gorman, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Sydney Forrester, Paul Donohoo-Vallett, Peter Cappers, Jeff Deason, Ryan Hledik, and Long Lam."Retail Electricity Price Trends and Drivers: Data Update−2026 Edition." (2026).

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Vasu Gaur, and Ben Hoen."Solar on Residential New Construction Datasets." (2026).

2025

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."Backup power or bill savings? How electricity tariffs impact residential solar-plus-storage usage in the United States."Utilities Policy 96 (2025) 102035. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Galen L Barbose, Peter Cappers, and Will Gorman."Factors Influencing Recent Trends in Retail Electricity Prices in the United States."The Electricity Journal 38.4 (2025). DOI

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Angelica Chavez Duckworth, Samantha Houck, and Galen L Barbose."Solar cities: A case study analysis of city-level enablers of expanded solar energy access."Energy Research & Social Science 127 (2025) 104321. DOI

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester."U.S. Distributed Solar and Storage Data." (2025).

Wiser, Ryan H, Dev Millstein, Ben Hoen, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Joachim Seel, Galen L Barbose, Anna Cheyette, Naïm R Darghouth, Seongeun Jeong, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Bentham Paulos."Land-Based Wind Energy Technology Update: 2025 Edition." (2025).

Barbose, Galen L."U.S. State Electricity Resource Standards: 2025 Data Update." (2025).

Yozwiak, Madeline, Galen L Barbose, Sanya Carley, Sydney Forrester, David M Konisky, Trevor Memmott, Cristina Crespo Montañés, and Eric O'Shaughnessy."The effect of residential solar on energy insecurity among low- to moderate-income households."Nature Energy (2025). DOI

Baik, Sunhee, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Galen L Barbose, Will Gorman, Cesca Miller, and Michael Spears."The power reliability event simulator tool (PRESTO): A novel approach to distribution system reliability analysis and applications."International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems 164 (2025) 110442. DOI

2024

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

Forrester, Sydney, Andrew Satchwell, Galen L Barbose, Evan Cappers, Cesca Miller, and Andrew Alberg."Retail Electricity Price and Cost 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).