Publications: Renewable Energy

2019

Smith, Kevin J, and Dayton Griffin. Supersized Wind Turbine Blade Study: R&D Pathways for Supersized Wind Turbine Blades. 2019.

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2018

Barbose, Galen L. U.S. Renewables Portfolio Standards: 2018 Annual Status Report. 2018.

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RPS Compliance Data XLSX (94.48 KB)

RPS Demand Projections XLSX (89.12 KB)

Wiser, Ryan H, Naïm R Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Galen L Barbose, Joachim Seel, Varun Rai, Ariane Beck, Ashok Sekar, D. Cale Reeves, Erik Funkhouser, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Ben Sigrin, and Casey Canfield. Diffusion of Innovations: Interplay of Social, Economic, Technological, and Policy Drivers in the Solar Industry—Summary of UT Austin Student Capstone Research Projects. 2018.

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Millstein, Dev, James McCall, Jordan Macknick, Scott Nicholson, David Keyser, Seongeun Jeong, and Garvin A Heath. GeoVision Analysis: Impacts Task Force Report—The Employment Opportunities, Water Impacts, Emission Reductions, and Air Quality Improvements of Achieving High Penetrations of Geothermal Power in the United States. 2018.

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Dev Millstein, and Joseph Rand. Tracking the Sun: Installed Price Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States - 2018 Edition. 2018.

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Bolinger, Mark, and Joachim Seel. Utility-Scale Solar: Empirical Trends in Project Technology, Cost, Performance, and PPA Pricing in the United States – 2018 Edition. 2018.

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Wiser, Ryan H, and Mark Bolinger. 2017 Wind Technologies Market Report. 2018.

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2017 WTMR Report PDF (2.41 MB)

2017 WTMR Presentation PDF (3.3 MB)

2017 WTMR Data File XLS (294 KB)

Hoen, Ben, Geoffrey T Klise, Andrea Ambrosini, Bill Garber, and Jonathan Thatcher. Commercial PV Property Appraiser Survey: Summary of Results. 2018.

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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.

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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. LBNL-2001163.

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CAISO Data XLS (6.56 MB)

ERCOT Data XLS (6.95 MB)

NYISO Data XLS (6.75 MB)

SPP Data XLS (6.74 MB)

Griffin, Dayton. Creating Pathways to Success for Supersized Wind Turbine Blades: 2018 Workshop Summary Report. 2018.

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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).

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Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Ben Hoen, and Ryan H Wiser. Income Trends of Residential PV Adopters: An analysis of household-level income estimates. 2018. LBNL-2001146.

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Deason, Jeff, and Sean Murphy. Assessing the PACE of California residential solar deployment: Impacts of Property Assessed Clean Energy programs on residential solar photovoltaic deployment in California, 2010-2015. 2018. LBNL-2001143.

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Hübner, Gundula, Johannes Pohl, Ben Hoen, Jeremy Firestone, Debi Elliott, and Joseph Rand. "Comparing Strongly Annoyed Individuals Near Wind Power Projects In U.S. and Europe." 2018.

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Haac, Ryan, Matt Landis, Ken Kaliski, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, Jeremy Firestone, Gundula Hübner, Johannes Pohl, and Debi Elliott. "Exploring the prediction of wind turbine audibility and sound annoyance with A-weighted sound levels." 2018.

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Hoen, Ben, Jeremy Firestone, Joseph Rand, Debi Elliott, Gundula Hübner, Johannes Pohl, Ryan H Wiser, and Eric Lantz. "Do Wind Turbines Make Good Neighbors? Results from a Nationwide Survey of Residents Living Near U.S. Wind Power Projects." 2018.

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2017

Thakur, Jagruti, Sebastian Rauner, Naïm R Darghouth, and Basab Chakraborty. "Exploring the impact of increased solar deployment levels on residential electricity bills in India." Renewable Energy 120.May 2018 (2017) 512-523.

Firestone, Jeremy, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, Debi Elliott, Gundula Hübner, and Johannes Pohl. "Reconsidering Barriers to Wind Power Projects: Community Engagement, Developer Transparency and Place." Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (2017) 1-17.

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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. LBNL-2001082.

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Mills, Andrew D, Ryan H Wiser, and Joachim Seel. Power Plant Retirements: Trends and Possible Drivers. 2017. LBNL-2001083.

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Tongsopit, Sopitsuda, Owen R Zinaman, and Naïm R Darghouth. Understanding the Impact of Distributed Photovoltaic Adoption on Utility Revenues and Retail Electricity Tariffs in Thailand. USAID Clean Power Asia, 2017.

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Zinaman, Owen R, Alexandra Aznar, Carl Linvill, Naïm R Darghouth, Timon Dubbeling, and Emanuele Bianco. Grid-Connected Distributed Generation: Compensation Mechanism Basics. 2017.

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Gagnon, Pieter, Anand Govindarajan, Lori Bird, Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, and Andrew D Mills. Solar + Storage Synergies for Managing Commercial-Customer Demand Charges. 2017. LBNL-2001071.

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Mai, Trieu, Eric Lantz, Matthew Mowers, and Ryan H Wiser. The Value of Wind Technology Innovation: Implications for the U.S. Power System, Wind Industry, Electricity Consumers, and Environment. 2017.

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