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Researchers in EAEI focus on three broad areas: Energy Markets, Policy, and Infrastructure; Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis; and Appliance and Equipment Energy Efficiency Standards.

We develop analytical and experimental methods and tools to assess the technical, economic and market potential of energy technologies, as well as the associated social, economic, health and environmental impacts.
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EAEI researchers provide unbiased, scientific, high quality and innovative research and technical assistance to government agencies in the United States and throughout the world. We help these entities develop long-term strategies, policies and programs that facilitate energy efficiency and the deployment of clean energy technology with minimum environmental and health impacts in all sectors and industries.
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Publications

2025

Hledik, Ryan, Adam Bigelow, Kala Viswanathan, Sydney Forrester, and Natalie Mims Frick."State regulator opportunities to advance distributed energy resources aggregations in wholesale markets." (2025).

2024

Seel, Joachim, Mel Moyce, and Sydney Forrester."A Clean Energy Deployment Baseline for the Energy Community and Low-Income Tax Credit Bonuses." (2024).

Hanus, Nichole L, Sydney Forrester, Evan Cappers, and Natalie Mims Frick."Database of Current State of U.S. Energy Equity Regulation and Legislation." (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).

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

Homer, Juliet, Rebecca Tapio, Jasmine McAdams, Natalie Mims Frick, Nichole L Hanus, and Sydney Forrester."U.S. Department of Energy-National Lab Equity Summit: Grid Planning and Operations." (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).

Ball, Jason, Sydney Forrester, Alexandra Grayson, and Andrew Satchwell."Electric Vehicle Program Designs and Strategies to Enhance Equitable Deployment." (2023).

Forrester, Sydney, Cole Triedman, Sam Kozel, Cameron Brooks, and Peter Cappers."Third-Party Aggregation Rulemaking in MISO and SPP Footprints." (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).

Forrester, Sydney, and Andrew Satchwell."Developing an Equity Framework for State Regulatory Decision-Making." (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

Ingram, Michael, David Narang, Xiangkun Li, Caitlin Marquis, Debbie Lew, and Sydney Forrester."DER Interconnection Workshop." (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).

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).

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).

Gill, Carrie, Shauna Beland, Ryan Constable, Tim Roughan, Caitlin Broderick, Stephen Lasher, Joyce McLaren, Sherin Abraham, Anthony Teixeria, Naïm R Darghouth, and Sydney Forrester."Use of Operating Agreements and Energy Storage to Reduce Photovoltaic Interconnection Costs: Conceptual Framework." (2022).

McLaren, Joyce, Sherin Abraham, Naïm R Darghouth, and Sydney Forrester."Use of Operating Agreements and Energy Storage to Reduce Photovoltaic Interconnection Costs: Technical and Economic Analysis." (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

McDermott, Thomas E, Killian McKenna, Miguel Heleno, Bilal Ahmad Bhatti, Michael Emmanuel, and Sydney Forrester."Distribution System Research Roadmap." (2022). DOI

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

2021

Forrester, Sydney, and Peter Cappers."Opportunities and Challenges to Capturing Distributed Battery Value via Retail Utility Rates and Programs." (2021).