Renewable Energy

2021

Brooks, Cameron, Peter Cappers, and Andrew Satchwell. Expanding the Scope of Commercial Opportunities for Investor-Owned Electric Utilities. 2021.

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Brooks, Cameron, Peter Cappers, and Andrew Satchwell. Expanding the Scope of Commercial Opportunities for Investor-Owned Electric Utilities. 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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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.

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Barbose, Galen L. U.S. Renewables Portfolio Standards 2021 Status Update: Early Release. 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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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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Cappers, Peter, and C. Anna Spurlock. A Handbook for Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Successful Electric Utility Pilots. 2020.

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

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

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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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