Cost, Benefit, & Market Analysis

2021

Paulos, Bentham, Sydney Forrester, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Christopher Dyson, Galen L Barbose, and Ryan H Wiser. An Assessment of Evaluation Practices of Low- And Moderate-Income Solar Programs. 2021.

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Gorman, Will, Cristina Crespo Montañés, Andrew D Mills, James Hyungkwan Kim, Dev Millstein, and Ryan H Wiser. "Are coupled renewable-battery power plants more valuable than independently sited installations?." (2021).
Wiser, Ryan H, Joseph Rand, Joachim Seel, Philipp Beiter, Erin Baker, Eric Lantz, and Patrick Gilman. "Expert elicitation survey predicts 37% to 49% declines in wind energy costs by 2050." Nature Energy (2021).

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Wiser, Ryan H, Dev Millstein, Joseph Rand, Paul Donohoo-Vallett, Patrick Gilman, and Trieu Mai. Halfway to Zero: Progress towards a Carbon-Free Power Sector. 2021.

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Bowen, Thomas, Carishma Gokhale-Welch, Karlynn Cory, and Naïm R Darghouth. Quantifying Rooftop Solar Benefits: a State-Level Value of Solar Analysis for India. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2021.

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Barbose, Galen L, Sydney Forrester, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Naïm R Darghouth. Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2021 Update. 2021.

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Hoen, Ben, James Diffendorfer, Joseph Rand, Louisa Kramer, Chris Garrity, and Hannah Hunt. "US Wind Turbine Database Files." 2021.

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Beiter, Philipp, Aubryn Cooperman, Eric Lantz, Tyler Stehly, Matt Shields, Ryan H Wiser, Thomas Telsnig, Lena Kitzing, Volker Berkhout, and Yuka Kikuchi. "Wind power costs driven by innovation and experience with further reductions on the horizon." WIREs Energy & Environment (2021).

2020

Rand, Joseph, Louisa Kramer, Christopher Garrity, Ben Hoen, James Diffendorfer, Hannah Hunt, and Michael Spears. "A continuously updated, geospatially rectified database of utility-scale wind turbines in the United States." Scientific Data 7.15 (2020).

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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.

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Barbose, Galen L, and Andrew Satchwell. "Benefits and costs of a utility-ownership business model for residential rooftop solar photovoltaics." Nature Energy (2020).

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Millstein, Dev. "Cleaning the grid." Nature Sustainability (2020).
Darghouth, Naïm R, Galen L Barbose, Jarett Zuboy, Pieter Gagnon, Andrew D Mills, and Lori Bird. "Demand charge savings from solar PV and energy storage." Energy Policy 146 (2020).
Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester. Distributed Solar 2020 Data Update. 2020.

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Zinaman, Owen, and Naïm R Darghouth. Distributed Solar Utility Tariff and Revenue Impact Analysis: A Guidebook for International Practitioners. Golden, Co: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2020.

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Wiser, Ryan H, and Dev Millstein. "Evaluating the economic return to public wind energy research and development in the United States." Applied Energy 261 (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.
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.

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Barbose, Galen L, Sydney Forrester, Naïm R Darghouth, and Ben Hoen. Income Trends among U.S. Residential Rooftop Solar Adopters. 2020.

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Duffy, Aidan, Maureen Hand, Ryan H Wiser, Eric Lantz, Alberto Dalla Riva, Volker Berkhout, Maria Stenkvist, David E Weir, and Roberto Lacal-Arántegui. "Land-based wind energy cost trends in Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and the United States." Applied Energy 277 (2020).

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Bolinger, Mark, Eric Lantz, Ryan H Wiser, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, and Robert Hammond. "Opportunities for and Challenges to Further Reductions in the “Specific Power” Rating of Wind Turbines Installed in the United States." Wind Engineering (2020).

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O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L Barbose, and Ryan H Wiser. "Patience is a virtue: A data-driven analysis of rooftop solar PV permitting timelines in the United States." Energy Policy 144 (2020).

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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).

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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).

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O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L Barbose, Ryan H Wiser, Sydney Forrester, and Naïm R Darghouth. "The impact of policies and business models on income equity in rooftop solar adoption." Nature Energy (2020).

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