Sydney Forrester

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2026

Wiser, Ryan H, Galen L Barbose, Will Gorman, Eric O’Shaughnessy, Sydney Forrester, Paul Donohoo-Vallett, Peter Cappers, Jeff Deason, Ryan Hledik, and Long Lam. "Retail Electricity Price Trends and Drivers: Data Update−2026 Edition." 2026.

2025

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Josh A Schellenberg, Sanjana Tadepalli, Sean Murphy, Sydney Forrester, Jeff Deason, Steven R Schiller, and Jasmine McAdams. "Boot Camp for the 2025-2026 DOE Energy Innovator Fellows." 2025.

Oct. 6: Electric System Reliability

Oct. 6: Electric System Resilience

Oct. 7: Energy Affordability

Oct. 8: Benefit-Cost Analysis of Distributed Energy Resources

Oct. 8: Evaluating Distributed Energy Resource Programs

Oct. 8: Example Application of Benefit-Cost Analysis: Managed Charging of Electric Vehicles

Oct. 8: Program Design for Distributed Energy Resource Programs

Oct. 9: Distributed Energy Resources in Distribution System Planning

Oct. 9: Skills Session: Stakeholder Engagement

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Eric O’Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester. "U.S. Distributed Solar and Storage Data." 2025.

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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).

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Forrester, Sydney, and Eric O’Shaughnessy. A Review of Value of Solar Studies In Theory and In Practice. 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.

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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.

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

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

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

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Eric O’Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester. Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States, 2024 Edition. 2024.

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

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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.

2023

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.

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

Forrester, Sydney, Cole Triedman, Sam Kozel, Cameron Brooks, and Peter Cappers. Third-Party Aggregation Rulemaking in MISO and SPP Footprints. 2023.

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Eric O’Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester. Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States, 2023 Edition. 2023.

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

Barbose, Galen L, and Sydney Forrester. Solar PV on U.S. Houses of Worship: Overview of Market Activity and Trends. 2023.

O’Shaughnessy, Eric, Sydney Forrester, and Galen L Barbose. "Supply sunspots and shadows: Business siting patterns and inequitable rooftop solar adoption in the United States." Energy Research & Social Science 96 (2023).

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2022

Ingram, Michael, David Narang, Xiangkun Li, Caitlin Marquis, Debbie Lew, and Sydney Forrester. "DER Interconnection Workshop." 2022.

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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.

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Eric O’Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester. Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States, 2022 Edition. 2022.

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Forrester, Sydney, Galen L Barbose, and Cesca Miller. "Private vs. public value of U.S. residential battery storage operated for solar self-consumption." iScience 25.8 (2022).

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