Publications

2023

Bolinger, Mark, Dev Millstein, Will Gorman, Patrick Dobson, and Seongeun Jeong."Mind the gap: Comparing the net value of geothermal, wind, solar, and solar+storage in the Western United States."Renewable Energy 205 (2023) 999-1009. DOI
Kim, James Hyungkwan, Mark Bolinger, Andrew D. Mills, and Ryan H. Wiser."Rethinking the Role of Financial Transmission Rights in Wind-Rich Electricity Markets in the Central U.S.."The Energy Journal 44.6 (2023). DOI

2022

Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, Cody Warner, and Dana Robson."Utility-Scale Solar, 2022 Edition: Empirical Trends in Deployment, Technology, Cost, Performance, PPA Pricing, and Value in the United States." (2022).
Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Seongeun Jeong, Ryan H. Wiser, Joachim Seel, and Cody Warner."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Operating and Proposed Plants, 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).
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).
Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, and Dirk C. Jordan."Plant-level performance and degradation of 31 GW-DC of utility-scale PV in the United States." (2022).
Millstein, Dev, Mark Bolinger, and Ryan H. Wiser."What can surface wind observations tell us about interannual variation in wind energy output?."Wind Energy (2022). DOI
Bolinger, Mark, and Greta Bolinger."Land Requirements for Utility-Scale PV: An Empirical Update on Power and Energy Density."IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (2022). DOI
Bolinger, Mark, Ryan H. Wiser, and Eric O'Shaughnessy."Levelized cost-based learning analysis of utility-scale wind and solar in the United States."iScience 25.6 (2022). DOI

2021

Seel, Joachim, Dev Millstein, Andrew D. Mills, Mark Bolinger, and Ryan H. Wiser."Plentiful electricity turns wholesale prices negative."Advances in Applied Energy 4 (2021). DOI
Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, Cody Warner, and Dana Robson."Utility-Scale Solar, 2021 Edition: Empirical Trends in Deployment, Technology, Cost, Performance, PPA Pricing, and Value in the United States." (2021).
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."Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2021 Edition." (2021).
Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Ryan H. Wiser, Seongeun Jeong, Joachim Seel, Cody Warner, and Bentham Paulos."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Installed and Proposed Projects." (2021).
Millstein, Dev, Ryan H. Wiser, Andrew D. Mills, Mark Bolinger, Joachim Seel, and Seongeun Jeong."Solar and wind grid system value in the United States: The effect of transmission congestion, generation profiles, and curtailment."Joule (2021). DOI
Rand, Joseph, Mark Bolinger, Ryan H. Wiser, Seongeun Jeong, and Bentham Paulos."Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2020." (2021).
Mills, Andrew D., Joachim Seel, Dev Millstein, James Hyungkwan Kim, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Yuhan Wang, Seongeun Jeong, and Ryan H. Wiser."Solar-to-Grid: Trends in System Impacts, Reliability, and Market Value in the United States with Data Through 2019." (2021).

2020

Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, Dana Robson, and Cody Warner."Utility-Scale Solar Data Update: 2020 Edition." (2020).
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."Wind Energy Technology Data Update: 2020 Edition." (2020).
Wiser, Ryan H., Dev Millstein, Mark Bolinger, Seongeun Jeong, and Andrew D. Mills."The hidden value of large-rotor, tall-tower wind turbines in the United States."Wind Engineering (2020). DOI
Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Seongeun Jeong, Joachim Seel, Cody Warner, and Ben Paulos."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Installed and Proposed Projects." (2020).
Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, and Dirk C. Jordan."System-level performance and degradation of 21 GW-DC of utility-scale PV plants in the United States."Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy 12.4 (2020). DOI
Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, and Joachim Seel."Benchmarking Utility-Scale PV Operational Expenses and Project Lifetimes: Results from a Survey of U.S. Solar Industry Professionals." (2020).
Hamilton, Sofia D., Dev Millstein, Mark Bolinger, Ryan H. Wiser, and Seongeun Jeong."How Does Wind Project Performance Change with Age in the United States?."Joule 4 (2020) 1-17. DOI
Gorman, Will, Andrew D. Mills, Mark Bolinger, Ryan H. Wiser, Nikita G. Singhal, Erik Ela, and Eric O'Shaughnessy."Motivations and options for deploying hybrid generator-plus-battery projects within the bulk power system."The Electricity Journal 33.5 (2020). DOI