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2021

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

Millstein, Dev."Cleaning the grid."Nature Sustainability (2020). DOI

Mills, Andrew D., Ryan H. Wiser, Dev Millstein, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Will Gorman, Joachim Seel, and Seongeun Jeong."The impact of wind, solar, and other factors on the decline in wholesale power prices in the United States."Applied Energy (2020). DOI

Millstein, Dev, Patrick Dobson, and Seongeun Jeong."The Potential to Improve the Value of U.S. Geothermal Electricity Generation Through Flexible Operations."Journal of Energy Resources Technology 413 (2020). DOI

Mills, Andrew D., and Pía Rodriguez."A simple and fast algorithm for estimating the capacity credit of solar and storage."Energy 210 (2020). DOI

Dobson, Patrick, Dipankar Dwivedi, Dev Millstein, Nandini Krishnaswamy, Julio Garcia, and Mariam Kiran."Analysis of curtailment at The Geysers geothermal Field, California."Geothermics 87 (2020) 101871. DOI

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 Bentham Paulos."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Installed and Proposed Projects." (2020).

Seel, Joachim, Andrew D. Mills, Cody Warner, Bentham Paulos, and Ryan H. Wiser."Impacts of High Variable Renewable Energy Futures on Electric-Sector Decision Making: Demand-Side Effects." (2020).

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

2019

Mills, Andrew D., Dev Millstein, Ryan H. Wiser, Joachim Seel, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Seongeun Jeong, and Will Gorman."Impact of Wind, Solar, and Other Factors on Wholesale Power Prices: An Historical Analysis—2008 through 2017." (2019).

Mills, Andrew D., and Pía Rodriguez."Drivers of the Resource Adequacy Contribution of Solar and Storage for Florida Municipal Utilities." (2019).

Gorman, Will, Andrew D. Mills, and Ryan H. Wiser."Improving estimates of transmission capital costs for utility-scale wind and solar projects to inform renewable energy policy."Energy Policy (2019). DOI

2018

Millstein, Dev, Joshua Solomon-Culp, Meina Wang, Paul Ullrich, and Craig Collier."Wind energy variability and links to regional and synoptic scale weather."Climate Dynamics (2018). DOI

Gagnon, Pieter, Galen L. Barbose, Brady Stoll, Ali Ehlen, Jarett Zuboy, Trieu Mai, and Andrew D. Mills."Estimating the Value of Improved Distributed Photovoltaic Adoption Forecasts for Utility Resource Planning." (2018).

Seel, Joachim, Andrew D. Mills, and Ryan H. Wiser."Impacts of High Variable Renewable Energy Futures on Wholesale Electricity Prices, and on Electric-Sector Decision Making." (2018).

Mills, Andrew D., Dev Millstein, Seongeun Jeong, Luke Lavin, Ryan H. Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."Estimating the Value of Offshore Wind Along the United States’ Eastern Coast." (2018). DOI

2017

Wiser, Ryan H., Andrew D. Mills, Joachim Seel, Todd Levin, and Audun Botterud."Impacts of Variable Renewable Energy on Bulk Power System Assets, Pricing, and Costs." (2017).

Mills, Andrew D., Ryan H. Wiser, and Joachim Seel."Power Plant Retirements: Trends and Possible Drivers." (2017).

Rand, Joseph, and Ben Hoen."Thirty years of North American wind energy acceptance research: What have we learned?."Energy Research & Social Science 29.July 2017 (2017) 135-148. DOI

Bolinger, Mark."Using Probability of Exceedance to Compare the Resource Risk of Renewable and Gas-Fired Generation." (2017).

2016

Kahrl, Fredrich, Andrew D. Mills, Luke Lavin, Nancy Ryan, Arne Olsen, and Lisa C. Schwartz."The Future of Electricity Resource Planning."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 6 (2016).

Mills, Andrew D., Galen L. Barbose, Joachim Seel, Changgui Dong, Trieu Mai, Ben Sigrin, and Jarett Zuboy."Planning for a Distributed Disruption: Innovative Practices for Incorporating Distributed Solar into Utility Planning." (2016).

Lamy, Julian V., Paulina Jaramillo, Inês Lima Azevedo, and Ryan H. Wiser."Should we build wind farms close to load or invest in transmission to access better wind resources in remote areas? A case study in the MISO region."Energy Policy 96.September 2016 (2016) 341-350. DOI