Webinars

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  China’s Methane Mitigation Potential: An Assessment of Costs and Uncertainties through 2060

Electricity Reliability

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  PRESTO! A new tool to aid in analyzing the reliability value of distributed solar-plus-storage

Renewable Energy

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  Batteries Included: Top 10 Findings from Berkeley Lab Research on the Growth of Hybrid Power Plants in the United States
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  Grid-Friendly PV to enhance the value of solar electricity as solar and storage penetrations increase
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  How Does Wind Project Performance Change with Age in the United States?
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  Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Operating and Proposed Plants, 2022 Edition
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  Impacts of High Variable Renewable Energy Futures on Electric-Sector Decision Making: Demand-Side Effects
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  Income Trends among U.S. Residential Rooftop Solar Adopters
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  Land Requirements for Utility-Scale PV: An Empirical Update on Power and Energy Density
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  Shedding light on large-scale solar impacts: an analysis of property values and proximity to photovoltaics across six U.S. states
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  Solar-to-Grid: Trends in System Impacts, Reliability and Market Value of Solar in the United States
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  Tracking the Sun 2021 Edition: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States
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  Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States, 2023 Edition
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  U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaics Database - Release of a new geospatial dataset
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  U.S. Wind Turbine Database: Data and Online Viewer
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  Wind Energy's Effect on School Finances and Student Outcomes
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  Wind Turbine Shadow Flicker Perception and Annoyance on Nearby Communities
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  A Status Update on U.S. State Renewables Portfolio & Clean Electricity Standards
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  An economic approach to configuring solar-plus-battery and wind-plus-battery hybrid energy plants
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  Analysis of Different Approaches to Capturing the Value of Renewable Energy Tax Incentives
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  Are coupled renewable-battery power plants more valuable than independently sited installations?
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  Behind-the-Meter Solar+Storage: Market data and trends
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  Benefits and costs of a utility-ownership business model for residential rooftop solar PV systems
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  Berkeley Lab solar data sets
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  Commercial Rooftop Solar Energy Market Installation Trends
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  Comparing Strongly Annoyed Individuals with Symptoms Near U.S. Turbines to those in Europe
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  Effects of land-based wind turbine upsizing on community sound levels and power and energy density
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  Estimating the Value of Improved Distributed Photovoltaic Adoption Forecasts for Utility Resource Planning
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  Estimating the Value of Offshore Wind Along the United States' Eastern Coast
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  Evaluating the Capabilities of Behind-the-Meter Solar-plus-Storage for Providing Backup Power during Long-Duration Power Interruption
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  Expert elicitation survey predicts 37% to 49% declines in wind energy costs by 2050
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  Exploring the energy justice implications of utility-scale renewable project siting patterns
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  How Low- and Moderate-Income Solar Programs are Evaluated: Trends and Best Practices
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  Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Installed and Proposed Projects
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  Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Operating and Proposed Plants, 2023 Edition
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  Impact of Wind, Solar, and Other Factors on Wholesale Power Prices: An Historical Analysis - 2008 through 2017
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  Impacts of High Variable Renewable Energy Futures on Wholesale Electricity Prices, and on Electric-Sector Decision Making
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  Impacts of Variable Renewable Energy on Bulk Power System Assets, Pricing, and Costs
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  Improving estimates of transmission capital costs for utility-scale wind and solar projects to inform renewable energy policy
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  Income Trends of Residential Solar Adopters
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  Income-targeted marketing as a supply-side barrier to low-income solar adoption
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  Influence of Business Models on PV-Battery Dispatch Decisions and Market Value
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  Integrating Cambium Marginal Costs into Electric Sector Decisions
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  International Perspectives on Social Acceptance of Offshore Wind Energy: A Roundtable Hosted by the International Energy Agency (Wind Task 28)
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  LCOE and Value Assessment of Larger Rotors and Taller Towers for Land-Based Wind
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  Levelized cost-based learning analysis of utility-scale wind and solar in the United States
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  Maximizing MWh: A Statistical Analysis of the Performance of Utility-Scale Photovoltaic Projects in the United States
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  Motivations and options for deploying hybrid generator-plus-battery projects within the bulk power system
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  Overall Analysis of Attitudes Across 1,700 Wind Project Neighbors
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  Patience is a Virtue: A Data-Driven Analysis of Rooftop Solar PV Permitting Timelines in the United States
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  Plant-level performance and degradation of 31 GW-DC of utility-scale PV in the United States
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  Predicting Audibility of and Annoyance to Wind Project Sounds Using Modeled Sound
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  Private vs. public value of U.S. residential battery storage operated for solar self-consumption
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  Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2021 Update
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  Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2022 Update
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  Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: Data Through 2021
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  Rethinking the Role of FTR for Renewables
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  Revisiting community wind through the lens of community solar
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  Solar-to-Grid: Trends in Systems Impacts, Reliability, and Market Value in the U.S. with Data Through 2020
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  Starting with Solar: A Preliminary Assessment of Solar Energy Systems in Residential New Construction
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  System-level performance and degradation of 21 GW-DC of utility-scale PV plants in the United States
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  The Impact of Policies and Business Models on Income Equity in Rooftop Solar Adoption
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  Tracking the Sun, 2018 Edition Webinar
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  Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States - 2019 Edition
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  Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States, 2022 Edition
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  U.S. interconnection costs & trends across 5 ISO/RTOs
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  U.S. Wind Turbine Database Instant Connectivity Webinar
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  Using Probability of Exceedance to Compare Resource Risk
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  Utility-Scale Solar 2016 Webinar
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  Utility-Scale Solar, 2021 Edition: Empirical Trends in Deployment, Technology, Cost, Performance, PPA Pricing, and Value in the United States
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  Utility-Scale Solar, 2022 Edition
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  Utility-Scale Solar, 2023 Edition
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  Utility-Scale Solar: Empirical Trends in Project Technology, Cost, Performance and PPA Pricing in the United States- 2018 Edition
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  Utility-Scale Solar: Empirical Trends in Project Technology, Cost, Performance, and PPA Pricing in the United States – 2019 Edition
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  Utility-Scale Wind and Solar in the U.S.: Comparative Trends in Deployment, Cost, Performance, Pricing, and Market Value
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  Valuing Technology Complementarities: Rooftop Solar and Energy Storage
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  Variable Renewable Energy Participation in U.S. Ancillary Services Markets: Economic Evaluation and Key Issues
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  Wind Power Project Planning Process Fairness and Attitudes

Electric System Planning

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  Planning and Budgeting for the Evaluation of Energy Efficiency Programs
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  Setting Baselines for Planning and Evaluation of Efficiency Programs

Utility Regulation & Business Models

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  Advancing Equity in Utility Regulation
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  All-Source Competitive Solicitations: State and Electric Utility Practices
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  DERS: Industry Structure, Institutions, and Regulatory Response
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  Distribution System Pricing with Distributed Energy Resources
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  Distribution Systems in a High Distributed Energy Resources Future: Planning, Market Design, Operation and Oversight
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  Implications of Rate Design for the Customer-Economics of Behind-the-Meter Storage
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  Performance-Based Regulation in a High Distributed Energy Resources Future
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  Quantifying the Financial Impacts of Electric Vehicles on Utility Ratepayers and Shareholders
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  Recovery of Utility Fixed Costs: Utility, Customer, Environmental, and Economist Perspective
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  Regulatory Incentives and Disincentives for Utility Investments in Grid Modernization
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  Renewable Energy Options for Large Utility Customers
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  The Future of Centrally-Organized Wholesale Electricity Markets
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  The Future of Electricity Resource Planning
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  The Future of Transportation Electrification: Utility, Industry and Consumer Perspectives
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  The Role of Innovation in the Electric Utility Sector
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  Utility Investments in Resilience of Electricity Systems
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  Value-Added Electricity Services: New Roles for Utilities and Third-Party Providers

Energy Efficiency

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  Looking Forward: Future of Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment
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  Still the One: New Study Finds Efficiency Remains a Cost-Effective Electricity Resource
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  Three Years in the Making: Calibrated, Validated and Publicly Available End Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock
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  A National Roadmap for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings
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  Advances in Efficiency EM&V - DOE’s Uniform Methods Project and M&V 2.0
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  Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Energy Efficiency Portfolios
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  Consistency and Coordination of Energy Efficiency EM&V and Reporting
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  Cost of Saving Electricity Through Efficiency Programs Funded by Customers of Publicly Owned Utilities: 2012–2017
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  Cost of saving natural gas through efficiency programs funded by utility customers: 2012–2017
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  Cost-Saving Two-fer: Efficiency Reduces Total Electricity Needs and Peak Demand
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  Counting Time: A New Tool Estimates the Value of Efficiency, Solar and Other Distributed Resources Based on When They Save Electricity
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  Determining Utility System Value of Demand Flexibility From Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings
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  End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock: Data Access and Use Cases
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  End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock: Market Needs, Use Cases, and Data Gaps
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  ESPC Success for State and Local Governments: ESPC Principles and Measurement and Verification Resources
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  Evaluating and Quantifying the Non-Energy Impacts of Energy Efficiency
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  Evaluation of Residential Behavior-Based Programs
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  Introduction to Wholesale and Retail Demand Response with a Focus on Measurement and Verification
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  Locational Value of Distributed Energy Resources
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  Michigan Public Service Commission Time Value of Energy Savings in Michigan
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  No time to lose: Recent research on the time-sensitive value of electric energy efficiency
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  Not Just A Pipe Dream: Non-Pipeline Alternative Framework, Analysis and Experiences
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  Opportunities and EM&V for Improving Electricity Distribution Efficiency
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  Performance Assessments of Demand Flexibility from Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Issues and Considerations
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  Planning and Budgeting for the Evaluation of Energy Efficiency Programs
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  Setting Baselines for Planning and Evaluation of Efficiency Programs
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  Technical Reference Manuals (TRMs) for Energy Efficiency Evaluation Measurement and Verification
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  The Cost of Saving Electricity Through Energy Efficiency Programs Funded by Utility Customers: 2009–2015
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  The Future of U.S. Electricity Efficiency Programs Funded by Utility Customers: Program Spending and Savings Projections to 2030
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  Time-Sensitive Value of Efficiency: Use Cases in Electricity Sector Planning and Programs
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  Using Deemed Savings and Technical Reference Manuals for Efficiency Programs and Projects
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  Using Energy Efficiency to Meet Peak Electricity Demand
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  Who is participating in residential energy efficiency programs?

Demand Response & Smart Grid

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  A Snapshot of EV-Specific Rate Designs Among U.S. Investor-Owned Electric Utilities
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  Expanding the Scope of Commercial Opportunities for Investor-Owned Electric Utilities
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  A Handbook for Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Successful Electric Utility Pilots
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  Barriers and Opportunities to Broader Adoption of Integrated Demand Side Management at Electric Utilities
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  Benefit-Cost Analysis of DERs - An Overview of the New National Standard Practice Manual
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  Disaggregating Future Retail Electricity Rate Growth
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  Opportunities and Challenges to Capturing Distributed Battery Value via Retail Utility Rates and Programs
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  The role of buildings in U.S. energy system decarbonization by mid-century
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  Uses for Smart Meter Data: Advanced Customer Segmentation
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  Uses for Smart Meter Data: Basic Customer Segmentation
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  Uses for Smart Meter Data: Customer Segmentation Applications to Existing Rates and Programs

Technical Assistance to States

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  Distribution System Planning – State Examples by Topic