Publications: Renewable Energy

2021

Gorman, Will, Cristina Crespo Montañés, Andrew D Mills, James Hyungkwan Kim, Dev Millstein, and Ryan H Wiser. "Are coupled renewable-battery power plants more valuable than independently sited installations?." (2021).

Deason, Jeff, Greg Leventis, and Sean Murphy. Performance of solar leasing for low- and middle-income customers in Connecticut. 2021.

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Paulos, Bentham, Sydney Forrester, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Christopher Dyson, Galen L Barbose, and Ryan H Wiser. An Assessment of Evaluation Practices of Low- And Moderate-Income Solar Programs. 2021.

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Wiser, Ryan H, Joseph Rand, Joachim Seel, Philipp Beiter, Erin Baker, Eric Lantz, and Patrick Gilman. "Expert elicitation survey predicts 37% to 49% declines in wind energy costs by 2050." Nature Energy (2021).

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Wiser, Ryan H, Dev Millstein, Joseph Rand, Paul Donohoo-Vallett, Patrick Gilman, and Trieu Mai. Halfway to Zero: Progress towards a Carbon-Free Power Sector. 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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Kahrl, Fredrich. All-Source Competitive Solicitations: State and Electric Utility Practices. Ed. Schwartz, Lisa C. 2021.

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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. 2021.

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Beiter, Philipp, Aubryn Cooperman, Eric Lantz, Tyler Stehly, Matt Shields, Ryan H Wiser, Thomas Telsnig, Lena Kitzing, Volker Berkhout, and Yuka Kikuchi. "Wind power costs driven by innovation and experience with further reductions on the horizon." WIREs Energy & Environment (2021).

Brooks, Cameron, Peter Cappers, and Andrew Satchwell. Expanding the Scope of Commercial Opportunities for Investor-Owned Electric Utilities. 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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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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2020

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

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester. Distributed Solar 2020 Data Update. 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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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).

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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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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O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L Barbose, Ryan H Wiser, Sydney Forrester, and Naïm R Darghouth. "The impact of policies and business models on income equity in rooftop solar adoption." Nature Energy (2020).

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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).

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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).

Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, Dana Robson, and Cody Warner. Utility-Scale Solar Data Update: 2020 Edition. 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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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.

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