Customer & Community Impacts
Analyzing emerging issues in distributed renewable energy and storage
Customer & Community Impacts
We evaluate how resources affect customers and communities, exploring a broad set of impacts and adoption drivers for distributed renewable and storage technologies.
Distributed energy resources present diverse benefits and costs to both host customers and communities. EMP’s research explores and quantifies these impacts, their drivers, and their effects on the adoption of distributed energy technologies. Past work includes analyzing rooftop solar effects on residential property values, assessing peer effects in residential and non-residential solar adoption, and researching the potential reliability and resilience benefits of distributed solar and storage.
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Recent Publications
Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Cesca Miller, Phillip White, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Sunhee Baik."Evaluating the potential for solar-plus-storage backup power in the United States as homes integrate efficient, flexible, and electrified energy technologies."Energy
304 (2024). DOI
Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Cesca Miller, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, and Philip White."Solar+Storage for Household Back-up Power: Implications of building efficiency, load flexibility, and electrification for backup during long-duration power interruptions."
(2023).
Baik, Sunhee, Galen L Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Cesca Miller, Will Gorman, and Michael Spears."Backup Power Performance of Solar-plus-Storage Systems during Routine Power Interruptions: A Case Study Application of Berkeley Lab’s PRESTO Model."
(2023).
Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, Philip White, and Marlena Prapost."County-level assessment of behind-the-meter solar and storage to mitigate long duration power interruptions for residential customers."Applied Energy
342 (2023). DOI
Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Cesca 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).
Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Stephanie Bieler, Myles T Collins, Joscha Mueller, Christoph Gehbauer, Douglas J Gotham, and Peter H Larsen."A framework to measure the technical, economic, and rate impacts of distributed solar, electric vehicles, and storage."Applied Energy
297 (2021). DOI
Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Nan Zhang, Sean Murphy, Benjamin Leibowicz, and Peter H Larsen."The economic value of a centralized approach to distributed resource investment and operation."Applied Energy
269 (2020). DOI
