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Juan Pablo Carvallo

Juan Pablo Carvallo

Juan Pablo "JP" Carvallo is a Research Scientist in the Energy Markets and Policy department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research areas at the Lab focus on long-term power system planning, integration and planning of distributed energy resources and electric vehicles, and reliability and resilience valuation. Dr. Carvallo holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as P.E. and B.S. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile.

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Email: [email protected]

Phone: 510-495-2711

Publications

2024

Bill Savings vs. Backup Power: Evaluating operational tradeoffs for home solar+storage systems

Authors: Gorman, Will; Galen L Barbose; Sunhee Baik; Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo.

10/2024

Clean Energy Innovator Fellows Training: Integrated Resource Planning

Authors: Carvallo, Juan Pablo; Bruce Biewald; Devi Glick, and Shelly Kwok.

10/2024

Evaluating the potential for solar-plus-storage backup power in the United States as homes integrate efficient, flexible, and electrified energy technologies

Authors: Gorman, Will; Galen L Barbose; Cesca Miller; Phillip White; Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Sunhee Baik.

09/2024

Leadership and Community Engagement in Chile: Deploying Net-Zero Technologies and Solutions

Authors: Bracho, Riccardo; Julie Doherty Kowalski; Nina Khanna; Virginie E Letschert; Nicholas DeForest; Rongxin Lin; Keith Kline; Sara Lechtenberg-Kasten; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Loreta Lancellotti; Natalie Kempkey, and Mijal Brady Berkowitz.

09/2024

Consumer Benefits of A Clean Energy Transition: Policy Brief

Authors: Frick, Natalie Mims; Sunhee Baik; Mark Bolinger; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Cesca Miller; Dev Millstein; Sean Murphy; Margaret Pigman, and Lisa C Schwartz.

07/2024

Consumer Benefits of A Clean Energy Transition: The resilience value of residential solar + storage systems in the continental U.S.

Authors: Baik, Sunhee; Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo.

07/2024

Power Outage Economics Tool: A Prototype for the Commonwealth Edison Service Territory

Authors: Larsen, Peter H; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Alan H Sanstad; Sunhee Baik; Ian Sue Wing; Dan Wei; Adam Rose; Jeremy Smith; Christopher Ramee, and Ridge Peterson.

05/2024

Western Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience

Authors: Frick, Natalie Mims; Lisa C Schwartz; Julieta Giraldez; Cody Davis; Samir Succar; Ronny Sandoval; Sara Peterson; Tom Wall; Stephen Torres; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Nichole L Hanus, and Josh A Schellenberg.

01/2024

2023

Solar+Storage for Household Back-up Power: Implications of building efficiency, load flexibility, and electrification for backup during long-duration power interruptions

Authors: Gorman, Will; Galen L Barbose; Cesca Miller; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Sunhee Baik, and Philip White.

11/2023

The use of price-based demand response as a resource in electricity system planning

Authors: Carvallo, Juan Pablo, and Lisa C Schwartz.

11/2023

Backup Power Performance of Solar-plus-Storage Systems during Routine Power Interruptions: A Case Study Application of Berkeley Lab’s PRESTO Model

Authors: Baik, Sunhee; Galen L Barbose; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Cesca Miller; Will Gorman, and Michael Spears.

10/2023

Distribution Grid Impacts of Community Solar

Authors: Heleno, Miguel; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Alan Valenzuela; Greg Leventis; Cesca Miller, and Jeff Deason.

09/2023

County-level assessment of behind-the-meter solar and storage to mitigate long duration power interruptions for residential customers

Authors: Gorman, Will; Galen L Barbose; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Sunhee Baik; Cesca Miller; Philip White, and Marlena Prapost.

07/2023

A Guide for Improved Resource Adequacy Assessments in Evolving Power Systems: Institutional and Technical Dimensions

Authors: Carvallo, Juan Pablo; Nan Zhang; Benjamin D Leibowicz; Thomas Carr; Sunhee Baik, and Peter H Larsen.

06/2023

Duke Energy’s Integrated System and Operations Planning: A comparative analysis of integrated planning practices

Authors: Keen, Jeremy; Erik Pohl; Natalie Mims Frick; Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Lisa C Schwartz.

06/2023

Shedding light on the economic costs of long-duration power outages: A review of resilience assessment methods and strategies

Authors: Macmillan, Madeline; Kyle Wilson; Sunhee Baik; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Anamika Dubey, and Christine A Holland.

05/2023

Quantifying the Financial Impacts of Electric Vehicles on Utility Ratepayers and Shareholders

Authors: Satchwell, Andrew; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Peter Cappers; James Milford, and Hadi Eshraghi.

02/2023

2022

Evaluating the Capabilities of Behind-the-Meter Solar-plus-Storage for Providing Backup Power during Long-Duration Power Interruptions

Authors: Gorman, Will; Galen L Barbose; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Sunhee Baik; Cesca Miller; Philip White, and Marlena Prapost.

09/2022

The Multi-scenario Extreme Weather Simulator: Energy Resilience for Mission Assurance

Authors: Villa, Daniel; Tyler Schostek; Carlo Bianchi; Madeline McMillan, and Juan Pablo Carvallo.

08/2022

Time-Sensitive Value Calculator

Authors: Frick, Natalie Mims; Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Margaret Pigman.

02/2022

2021

Quantifying grid reliability and resilience impacts of energy efficiency: Examples and opportunities

Authors: Frick, Natalie Mims; Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Lisa C Schwartz.

12/2021

Integrated Distribution System Planning Training: Innovations in Electricity Modeling

Authors: Homer, Juliet; Tom McDermott; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Cesca Miller; Jeremy Twitchell; Natalie Mims Frick; John Fazio; Robert Lempert, and Rui Yang.

10/2021

A framework to measure the technical, economic, and rate impacts of distributed solar, electric vehicles, and storage

Authors: Carvallo, Juan Pablo; Stephanie Bieler; Myles T Collins; Joscha Mueller; Christoph Gehbauer; Douglas J Gotham, and Peter H Larsen.

06/2021

U.S. ESCO Industry: Industry Size and Recent Market Trends

Authors: Stuart, Elizabeth; Nichole L Hanus; Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Peter H Larsen.

06/2021

Utility-Scale and Distributed Storage in Integrated Resource Plans: A Comparison of Plans for Indiana and Other States

Authors: Miller, Cesca; Natalie Mims Frick; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Tom Eckman, and Lisa C Schwartz.

05/2021

2020

Implications of a regional resource adequacy program on utility integrated resource planning: Study for the Western United States

Authors: Carvallo, Juan Pablo; Nan Zhang; Benjamin Leibowicz; Thomas Carr; Maury Galbraith, and Peter H Larsen.

11/2020

The impact of wind, solar, and other factors on the decline in wholesale power prices in the United States

Authors: Mills, Andrew D; Ryan H Wiser; Dev Millstein; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Will Gorman; Joachim Seel, and Seongeun Jeong.

11/2020

The economic value of a centralized approach to distributed resource investment and operation

Authors: Carvallo, Juan Pablo; Nan Zhang; Sean Murphy; Benjamin Leibowicz, and Peter H Larsen.

07/2020

Indiana 21st Century Energy Policy: Emerging Technologies on the Electricity Distribution System

Authors: Carvallo, Juan Pablo; Myles T Collins; Stephanie Bieler; Joscha Mueller; Christoph Gehbauer, and Peter H Larsen.

06/2020

2019

The use of wholesale market purchases by Western U.S. electric utilities

Authors: Carvallo, Juan Pablo; Sean Murphy; Alan H Sanstad, and Peter H Larsen.

12/2019

Impact of Wind, Solar, and Other Factors on Wholesale Power Prices: An Historical Analysis—2008 through 2017

Authors: Mills, Andrew D; Dev Millstein; Ryan H Wiser; Joachim Seel; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Seongeun Jeong, and Will Gorman.

11/2019

Evaluating project level investment trends for the U.S. ESCO industry: 1990-2017

Authors: Carvallo, Juan Pablo; Sean Murphy; Elizabeth Stuart; Peter H Larsen, and Charles A Goldman.

03/2019

2018

Long term load forecasting accuracy in electric utility integrated resource planning

Authors: Carvallo, Juan Pablo; Peter H Larsen; Alan H Sanstad, and Charles A Goldman.

08/2018

Understanding recent market trends of the US ESCO industry

Authors: Stuart, Elizabeth; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Peter H Larsen; Charles A Goldman, and Donald Gilligan.

03/2018

2017

Exploring the relationship between planning and procurement in Western U.S. electric utilities

Authors: Carvallo, Juan Pablo; Alan H Sanstad, and Peter H Larsen.

06/2017

Updated Estimates of the Remaining Market Potential of the U.S. ESCO Industry

Authors: Larsen, Peter H; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Charles A Goldman; Sean Murphy, and Elizabeth Stuart.

04/2017

2016

Evaluating and Quantifying the Non-Energy Impacts of Energy Efficiency

Authors: Schiller, Steven R; Lisa Skumatz; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Jessica Burdette, and Matt Klucher.

12/2016

Load Forecasting in Electric Utility Integrated Resource Planning

Authors: Carvallo, Juan Pablo; Peter H Larsen; Alan H Sanstad, and Charles A Goldman.

10/2016

Energy Efficiency Program Financing: Where it comes from, where it goes, and how it gets there

Authors: Deason, Jeff; Greg Leventis; Charles A Goldman, and Juan Pablo Carvallo.

06/2016

U.S. Energy Service Company (ESCO) Industry: Recent Market Trends

Authors: Stuart, Elizabeth; Peter H Larsen; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Charles A Goldman, and Donald Gilligan.

2015

Estimating customer electricity and fuel savings from projects installed by the US ESCO industry

Authors: Carvallo, Juan Pablo; Peter H Larsen, and Charles A Goldman.

12/2015

2014

Estimating customer electricity savings from projects installed by the U.S. ESCO industry

Authors: Carvallo, Juan Pablo; Peter H Larsen, and Charles A Goldman.

11/2014

2013

Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy Mini-grids for Energy Access: A Framework for Policy Design

Authors: Deshmukh, Ranjit; Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Ashwin Gambhir.

04/2013