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Publications: Renewable Energy

2022

Elmallah, Salma, and Joseph Rand."“After the leases are signed, it's a done deal”: Exploring procedural injustices for utility-scale wind energy planning in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science 89 (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

Haac, , Ryan, Ryan Darlow, Ken Kaliski, Joseph Rand, and Ben Hoen."In the shadow of wind energy: Predicting community exposure and annoyance to wind turbine shadow flicker in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science 87 (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).

Rand, Joseph, Ryan H. Wiser, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Joachim Seel, Seongeun Jeong, and Dana Robson."Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2021." (2022).

O'Shaughnessy, Eric."Rooftop solar incentives remain effective for low- and moderate-income adoption."Energy Policy 163 (2022). DOI

Gill, Elizabeth, and Joseph Rand."Understanding Costs Associated with Wind Energy Opposition and Stakeholder Engagement." (2022).

Hoen, Ben, James Diffendorfer, Joseph Rand, Louisa Kramer, Chris Garrity, and Hannah Hunt."US Wind Turbine Database Files." (2022). DOI

Khandekar, Aditya, Shruti M. Deorah, and Nikit Abhyankar."Feasibility and Impact of Biomass and Renewable Energy Hybrid Systems." (2022).

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).

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).

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).

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).

Brunner, Eric, Ben Hoen, and Joshua Hyman."School district revenue shocks, resource allocations, and student achievement: Evidence from the universe of U.S. wind energy installations."Journal of Public Economics (2022). DOI

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

2021

Seel, Joachim, and Andrew D. Mills."Integrating Cambium Marginal Costs into Electric Sector Decisions: Opportunities to Integrate Cambium Marginal Cost Data into Berkeley Lab Analysis and Technical Assistance." (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

Seel, Joachim, Dev Millstein, Andrew D. Mills, Mark Bolinger, and Ryan H. Wiser."Plentiful electricity turns wholesale prices negative."Advances in Applied Energy 4 (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

Seel, Joachim, Cody Warner, and Andrew D. Mills."Influence of Business Models on PV-Battery Dispatch Decisions and Market Value."Advances in Applied Energy (2021). DOI

Mills, Andrew D., Joachim Seel, Dev Millstein, James Hyungkwan Kim, Seongeun Jeong, Cody Warner, and Will Gorman."Solar-to-Grid: Trends in System Impacts, Reliability, and Market Value in the United States with Data Through 2020." (2021).

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).

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