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2025

Kemp, Julie Mulvaney, Dev Millstein, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, and Ryan H Wiser."Electric transmission value and its drivers in United States power markets."Nature Communications 16 (2025). DOI

Chelminski, Kathryn, Lisa C Schwartz, Jeff Thomas, Juan Martinez, and Schuyler Matteson."Promoting Economic Efficiency in Interconnection–Part 1: Coordination Between Interconnection and Grid Planning." (2025).

Barbose, Galen L."U.S. State Electricity Resource Standards: 2025 Data Update." (2025).

DeForest, Nicholas, Miguel Heleno, JP Daniel, and Amanda Krelling."Project Planning for Community Resilience: Aquinnah and Chilmark, Massachusetts." (2025).

Podpora, Adam, Cody Matthews, David Rearden, Calvin Monson, Kathryn Chelminski, and Lisa C Schwartz." Clearing the Fog on Interconnection Queues: Increasing Data Access, Transparency, and Security." (2025).

Rand, Joseph, Karl Hoesch, Robi Nilson, Ben Hoen, Sarah Mills, Douglas L Bessette, and Jacob White."More power to them: U.S. large-scale solar neighbors' support for additional solar."Frontiers in Sustainable Energy Policy 4 (2025). DOI

Davis, Cody."Power Flow Analysis for DER Interconnections." (2025).

Sergi, Brian, Jennie Jorgenson, Lawryn Kiboma, Zack Jensen, Dev Millstein, Natalie Mims Frick, and Fredrich Kahrl."Solar and Storage Integration in the U.S. Southeast: Implications for Resource Adequacy." (2025).

Terwilliger, Hanna, Derek Duran, Ken Habel, Katie Cleary, Lisa C Schwartz, and Kathryn Chelminski."Speed Dating: Faster Connections Between Customer Resources and Utility Grids." (2025).

Yozwiak, Madeline, Galen L Barbose, Sanya Carley, Sydney Forrester, David M Konisky, Trevor Memmott, Cristina Crespo Montañés, and Eric O'Shaughnessy."The effect of residential solar on energy insecurity among low- to moderate-income households."Nature Energy (2025). DOI

Baik, Sunhee, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Galen L Barbose, Will Gorman, Cesca Miller, and Michael Spears."The power reliability event simulator tool (PRESTO): A novel approach to distribution system reliability analysis and applications."International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems 164 (2025) 110442. DOI

Hoesch, Karl, Sarah Mills, Joseph Rand, Robi Nilson, Douglas L Bessette, Jacob White, and Ben Hoen."What to expect when you're expecting engagement: Delivering procedural justice in large-scale solar energy deployment."Energy Research & Social Science 120 (2025). DOI

Forrester, Sydney, and Eric O'Shaughnessy."A Review of Value of Solar Studies In Theory and In Practice." (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).

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

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).

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).

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).

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). DOI

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."Bill Savings vs. Backup Power: Evaluating operational tradeoffs for home solar+storage systems." (2024).

Kahrl, Fredrich, Jennie Jorgenson, James Hyungkwan Kim, Lawryn Kiboma, Dev Millstein, Natalie Mims Frick, and Brian Sergi."Solar and Wind Forecast Error Reserve Sharing in a Multi-Utility Region." (2024).

Seel, Joachim, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Anna Cheyette, Dev Millstein, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, Dana Robson, Rachman Setiawan, and Mark Bolinger."Utility-Scale Solar, 2024 Edition: Empirical Trends in Deployment, Technology, Cost, Performance, PPA Pricing, and Value in the United States." (2024).