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2025

Schwartz, Lisa C, Natalie Mims Frick, Grace Relf, Ted Light, Josh A Schellenberg, and Alan H Sanstad."Clean Air as a Bonus for Achieving Energy-Related State Goals: A Review of Policies and Programs in 15 States." (2025).

Hledik, Ryan, Sanem Sergici, Sai Shetty, and Peter Cappers."Deliberate Design: Creating Electricity Rates with Purpose." (2025).

Kahn-Lang, Jenya, Yuqi Zhu, Karen Palmer, and Peter Cappers."Different Prices for Difference Slices: A Meta-analysis of Time-based Electricity Rates."TBD (2025).

McDonnell, Matt, Ron Nelson, and Natalie Mims Frick."Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Integration Framework: Regulatory Innovation for DER Compensation and Cost Allocation." (2025).

De Martini, Paul, Lisa C Schwartz, and Jason Ball."Economic Evaluation of Modernization Expenditures for Electric Utility Distribution Systems: A Guide for Utility Regulators." (2025).

Satchwell, Andrew, Natalie Mims Frick, Peter Cappers, Sanem Sergici, Ryan Hledik, Goksin Kavlak, and Glenda Oskar."Electricity Rate Designs for Large Loads: Evolving Practices and Opportunities." (2025).

Baik, Sunhee, Kathryn Chelminski, Shankar Earni, and Elizabeth Stuart."Evaluating GHG Mitigation Potential from ESPC Projects." (2025).

Schellenberg, Josh A, and Natalie Mims Frick."Moving Beyond Direct Load Control: A Maturity Model for Realizing the Promise of Demand Flexibility." (2025).

LeBel, Mark, Ronny Sandoval, Natalie Mims Frick, and Jeff Deason."Opportunities for Integrating Electric and Gas Planning." (2025).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Angela Long, Grace Relf, and Anthony Sandonato."Reimagining Energy Efficiency Resource Standards." (2025).

Satchwell, Andrew, Elaine Hale, Christina E Simeone, and Samanvitha Murthy."Research Needs and New Capabilities for Retail Electricity Rate Analysis." (2025).

Forrester, Sydney, Ryan Hledik, Adam Bigelow, Natalie Mims Frick, and Kala Viswanathan."State regulatory opportunities to advance distributed energy resource aggregations in wholesale markets." (2025).

Pereira, Guillermo, Jeff Deason, and Anthony Sandonato."Unlocking load growth at the grid edge: Practices for managing, recovering, and allocating distribution system investments." (2025).

Long, Angela, Ryan Long, and Natalie Mims Frick."Virtual Power Plants: Insights, Profiles and Inventory." (2025).

2024

Seel, Joachim, Mel Moyce, and Sydney Forrester."A Clean Energy Deployment Baseline for the Energy Community and Low-Income Tax Credit Bonuses." (2024).

Sandler, Simon, Bentham Paulos, and Jenna Harmon."Community Solar Consolidated Billing: An Exploration of Implementation and Alternatives." (2024).

Hanus, Nichole L, Sydney Forrester, Evan Cappers, and Natalie Mims Frick."Database of Current State of U.S. Energy Equity Regulation and Legislation." (2024).

Hledik, Ryan, Akhilesh Ramakrishnan, Serena Patel, and Andrew Satchwell."Distributed Energy, Utility Scale: 30 Proven Strategies to Increase VPP Enrollment." (2024).

Ryan, Nancy, and Andrew Satchwell."Energy Innovator Fellows Training: Transportation Electrification." (2024).

Wiser, Ryan H, Robi Nilson, Joseph Rand, and Bentham Paulos."Forecasts for Land-Based Wind Deployment in the United States: Wind Industry Survey Results." (2024).

Gorman, Will, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Joseph Rand, Joachim Seel, Ryan H Wiser, Nick Manderlink, Fredrich Kahrl, Kevin Porter, and Will Cotton."Grid connection barriers to renewable energy deployment in the United States."Joule (2024) 101791. DOI

Schwartz, Lisa C, Natalie Mims Frick, Margot Everett, Chris Lawrie, Cody Davis, Nancy Ryan, Andrew Satchwell, and Grace Relf."Integrated Distribution System Planning 2.0: Planning for Electrification and Distributed Energy Resources." (2024).

Forrester, Sydney, Galen L Barbose, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Naïm R Darghouth."Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2024 Update." (2024).

Forrester, Sydney, Andrew Satchwell, Galen L Barbose, Evan Cappers, Cesca Miller, and Andrew Alberg."Retail Electricity Price and Cost Trends: 2024 Update." (2024).

Shipley, Jessica, Jay Barlow, and Grace Relf."Review of Literature and Utility Commission Proceedings Relevant to Integrated System Planning: Annotated Bibliography Prepared to Support the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission." (2024).