Energy Markets and Planning Department

Wiser, Ryan H, Dev Millstein, Joseph Rand, Paul Donohoo-Vallett, Patrick Gilman, and Trieu Mai. Halfway to Zero: Progress towards a Carbon-Free Power Sector. 2021.

Wiser, Ryan H, Joseph Rand, Joachim Seel, Philipp Beiter, Erin Baker, Eric Lantz, and Patrick Gilman. "Expert elicitation survey predicts 37% to 49% declines in wind energy costs by 2050." Nature Energy (2021).

Pre-print Journal Article PDF

Survey Data File XLSX

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Barbose, Galen L, Sydney Forrester, Eric O’Shaughnessy, and Naïm R Darghouth. Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2021 Update. 2021.

Beiter, Philipp, Aubryn Cooperman, Eric Lantz, Tyler Stehly, Matt Shields, Ryan H Wiser, Thomas Telsnig, Lena Kitzing, Volker Berkhout, and Yuka Kikuchi. "Wind power costs driven by innovation and experience with further reductions on the horizon." WIREs Energy & Environment (2021).

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Phadke, Amol A, Aditya Khandekar, Nikit Abhyankar, David Wooley, and Deepak Rajagopal. Why Regional and Long-Haul Trucks are Primed for Electrification Now. 2021.

Electric truck model spreadsheet

Hu, Junfeng, Qingyou Yan, Fredrich Kahrl, Xu Liu, Peng Wang, and Jiang Lin. "Evaluating the ancillary services market for large-scale renewable energy integration in China’s northeastern power grid." Utilities Policy 69 (2021) 101179.

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Brunner, Eric, Ben Hoen, and Joshua Hyman. "School district revenue shocks, resource allocations, and student achievement: Evidence from the universe of U.S. wind energy installations." Journal of Public Economics (2022).

Project Summary PDF

Presentation PDF

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Sheppard, Colin, Alan T Jenn, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Gordon S Bauer, and Brian F Gerke. "Private versus Shared, Automated Electric Vehicles for U.S. Personal Mobility: Energy Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Grid Integration, and Cost Impacts." Environmental Science & Technology (2021).

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Schellenberg, Josh A, and Peter H Larsen. "Changes to the Underlying Econometric Models for the Interruption Cost Estimate (ICE) Calculator." 2018.

Technical Brief PDF

Barbose, Galen L. U.S. Renewables Portfolio Standards 2021 Status Update: Early Release. 2021.

2021 Report PDF

RPS Demand Projections XLSX

RPS Compliance Data XLSX

RPS Percentage Targets XLSX

Retail Electricity Sales XLSX

Baik, Sunhee, Nichole L Hanus, Alan H Sanstad, Joseph H Eto, and Peter H Larsen. A Hybrid Approach to Estimating the Economic Value of Enhanced Power System Resilience. 2021.

Larsen, Peter H, Megan Lawson, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Joseph H Eto. "Severe weather, utility spending, and the long-term reliability of the U.S. power system." Energy 198 (2020).

Pre-print Journal Article

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Dalton, Patrick, Mary Ann Piette, Paul De Martini, Fritz Kahrl, Jeremy Twitchell, and Andrew D Mills. "Western States Training Webinars on Integrated Distribution System Planning." 2021.

Announcement and Trainer Bios

Integration, Management, and Control of Supply-Side DER

Demand Flexibility Technology, New Programs and Emerging Policies

Grid Modernization and Resilience Planning

Grid Modernization Investment Economics

Planning for Energy Storage

Storage for Integration and Hybrid Power Plants

Agenda for Western States Roundtable: Policy and Regulatory Issues for Utility Investments in Grid Modernization

Brooks, Cameron, Peter Cappers, and Andrew Satchwell. Expanding the Scope of Commercial Opportunities for Investor-Owned Electric Utilities. 2021.

Cappers, Peter, Andrew Satchwell, Max Dupuy, and Carl Linvill. "The Distribution of U.S. Electric Utility Revenue Decoupling Rate Impacts from 2005 to 2017." 2021.

Frick, Natalie Mims, Snuller Price, Lisa C Schwartz, Nichole L Hanus, and Ben Shapiro. Locational Value of Distributed Energy Resources. 2021.

Presentation PDF

Woolf, Tim, Ben Havumaki, Divita Bhandari, Melissa Whited, and Lisa C Schwartz. Benefit-Cost Analysis for Utility-Facing Grid Modernization Investments: Trends, Challenges, and Considerations. 2021.

Presentation PDF

Mills, Andrew D, Joachim Seel, Dev Millstein, James Hyungkwan Kim, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Yuhan Wang, Seongeun Jeong, and Ryan H Wiser. Solar-to-Grid: Trends in System Impacts, Reliability, and Market Value in the United States with Data Through 2019. 2021.

User Guide for Data File PDF

Annual Solar Value by Plant and County XLSX

Capacity Credit Data by Plant and County XLSX

Kahrl, Fredrich. All-Source Competitive Solicitations: State and Electric Utility Practices. Ed. Lisa C Schwartz. 2021.

Presentation PDF

Bowen, Thomas, Carishma Gokhale-Welch, Karlynn Cory, and Naïm R Darghouth. Quantifying Rooftop Solar Benefits: a State-Level Value of Solar Analysis for India. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2021.