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2024

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

Gilbert, Ben, Ben Hoen, and Hannah Gagarin."Distributional Equity in the Employment and Wage Impacts of Energy Transitions."Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 11 (2024).

McAdams, Jasmine, and Nichole L Hanus."Establishing and Maintaining Engagement for a Distributional Equity Analysis." (2024).

Leventis, Greg, Sydney Forrester, and Bentham Paulos."Income Verification Strategies for Income-Based Solar Programs." (2024).

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L Barbose, Sudha Kannan, and Jenny Sumner."Evaluating community solar as a measure to promote equitable clean energy access."Nature Energy (2024). DOI

Enterline, Shawn, Andrew Valainis, and Ben Hoen."Laws in Order: An Inventory of State Renewable Energy Siting Policies." (2024).

Forrester, Sydney, Cristina Crespo Montañés, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Galen L Barbose."Modeling the potential effects of rooftop solar on household energy burden in the United States."Nature Communications 15 (2024). DOI

Rand, Joseph, Karl Hoesch, Sarah Mills, Ben Hoen, Robi Nilson, Doug Bessette, and Jake White."Perceptions of Large-Scale Solar Project Neighbors: Results From a National Survey." (2024).

Yang, Haozhe, Qian Luo, Gang He, Jiang Lin, Jeremiah X Johnson, Fernando Garcia-Menendez, Olivier Deschenes, Ana Mileva, and Ranjit Deshmukh."Regional disparities in health and employment outcomes of China's transition to a low-carbon electricity system."Environmental Research: Energy 1 (2024). DOI

Paulos, Bentham."A Program Design Combining Community Solar and Weatherization for Manufactured Homes in Michigan." (2024).

Homer, Juliet, Rebecca Tapio, Jasmine McAdams, Natalie Mims Frick, Nichole L Hanus, and Sydney Forrester."U.S. Department of Energy-National Lab Equity Summit: Grid Planning and Operations." (2024).

Nilson, Robi, Ben Hoen, and Joseph Rand."Survey of Utility-Scale Wind and Solar Developers Report." (2024).

2023

Brunner, Eric, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, and David Schwegman."Commercial Wind Turbines and Residential Home Values: New Evidence from the Universe of Land-Based Wind Projects in the United States."Energy Policy (2023). DOI

Forrester, Sydney, Galen L Barbose, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Naïm R Darghouth, and Cristina Crespo Montañés."Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2023 Update." (2023).

Nelson, Ron, Bradley Cebulko, Thomas Van Hentenryck, Erin Mettler, and Natalie Mims Frick."A Framework for Non-Pipeline Alternatives Analysis and Review of Existing Approaches." (2023).

Ball, Jason, Sydney Forrester, Alexandra Grayson, and Andrew Satchwell."Electric Vehicle Program Designs and Strategies to Enhance Equitable Deployment." (2023).

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Alexandra Grayson, and Galen L Barbose."The role of peer influence in rooftop solar adoption inequity in the United States."Energy Economics 127 (2023). DOI

Forrester, Sydney, and Andrew Satchwell."Developing an Equity Framework for State Regulatory Decision-Making." (2023).

Wang, Zhaohua, Hao Li, Bin Zhang, Bo Wang, Hao Li, Xin Tian, Jiang Lin, and Wei Feng."Unequal residential heating burden caused by combined heat and power phase-out under climate goals."Nature Energy (2023). DOI

Hanus, Nichole L, Jay Barlow, Andrew Satchwell, and Peter Cappers."Assessing the Current State of U.S. Energy Equity Regulation and Legislation." (2023).

Paulos, Bentham, and Juliana Williams."Are You Philanthropy-Ready? How to Work with Foundations on Mission-Aligned Community Solar." (2023).

2022

Forrester, Sydney, Galen L Barbose, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Naïm R Darghouth, and Cristina Crespo Montañés."Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: November 2022 Update." (2022).

Spurlock, C Anna, Salma Elmallah, and Tony Reames."Equitable deep decarbonization: A framework to facilitate energy justice-based multidisciplinary modeling."Energy Research & Social Science 92 (2022) 102808. DOI

Deason, Jeff, Sean Murphy, and Greg Leventis."Customer outcomes in Pay-As-You-Save programs."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Ryan H Wiser, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, and Salma Elmallah."Drivers and energy justice implications of renewable energy project siting in the United States."Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (2022). DOI