Publications: Cost, Benefit, & Market Analysis

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
Paulos, Bentham, and Juliana Williams."Are You Philanthropy-Ready? How to Work with Foundations on Mission-Aligned Community Solar." (2023).
Chen, Yidan, Jiang Lin, David Roland-Holst, Xu Liu, and Can Wang."Declining Renewable Costs, Emissions Trading, and Economic Growth: China’s Power System at the Crossroads."Energies (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).
Seel, Joachim, Joseph Rand, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Ryan H. Wiser, Will Cotton, Nicholas DiSanti, and Kevin Porter."Generator Interconnection Cost Analysis in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) territory." (2022).
Hoen, Ben, James Diffendorfer, Joseph Rand, Louisa Kramer, Chris Garrity, and Hannah Hunt."US Wind Turbine Database Files." (2022). DOI
Gorman, Will, Galen L. Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Chandler 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).
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).
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).
Davidson, Michael R., and Dev Millstein."Limitations of reanalysis data for wind power applications."Wind Energy (2022). DOI
Beiter, Philipp, Joseph Rand, Joachim Seel, Eric Lantz, Patrick Gilman, and Ryan H. Wiser."Expert perspectives on the wind plant of the future."Wind Energy (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).
O'Shaughnessy, Eric."Rooftop solar incentives remain effective for low- and moderate-income adoption."Energy Policy 163 (2022). DOI
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).
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).
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
Wang, Yuhan, Dev Millstein, Andrew D. Mills, Seongeun Jeong, and Amos Ancell."The cost of day-ahead solar forecasting errors in the United States."Solar Energy 231 (2022) 846-856. 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

Montañés, Cristina Crespo, Will Gorman, Andrew D. Mills, and James Hyungkwan Kim."Keep it short: Exploring the impacts of configuration choices on the recent economics of solar-plus-battery and wind-plus-battery hybrid energy plants." (2021). DOI
O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L. Barbose, Ryan H. Wiser, and Sydney Forrester."Income-targeted marketing as a supply-side barrier to low-income solar adoption."iScience 24.10 (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).
Kahrl, Fredrich, James Hyungkwan Kim, Andrew D. Mills, Ryan H. Wiser, Cristina Crespo Montañés, and Will Gorman."Variable Renewable Energy Participation in U.S. Ancillary Services Markets: Economic Evaluation and Key Issues." (2021).