Community Impacts and Public Response

Rand, Joseph, Louisa Kramer, Ben Hoen, Jay Diffendorfer, and Christopher Garrity. "Out With the Old: Empirical Trends in U.S. Land‐Based Wind Turbine Decommissioning and Repowering." Wind Energy 29.3 (2026).

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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).

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Hoen, Ben, Eric Brunner, and David Schwegman. "Uplifting winds: The surprisingly positive community-wide impact of wind energy installations on property values." Energy Research & Social Science 127 (2025) 104331.

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O’Shaughnessy, Eric, Robi Nilson, and Joseph Rand. "Go slow to go fast? A review of the impacts of permitting on large-scale solar project development." Energy Research & Social Science 127 (2025) 104318.

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Elmallah, Salma, Robi Nilson, Joseph Rand, Emma Uridge, and Ben Hoen. "Under-capacitated and over-powered? Rural austerity and asymmetrical negotiating relationships in US wind energy development." Journal of Rural Studies 119 (2025) 103749.

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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).

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

Nilson, Robi, Joseph Rand, Ben Hoen, and Salma Elmallah. "Halfway up the ladder: Developer practices and perspectives on community engagement for utility-scale renewable energy in the United States." Energy Research & Social Science 117 (2024).

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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).

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

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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.

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

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Bessette, Douglas L, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, Karl Hoesch, Jacob White, Sarah B Mills, and Robi Nilson. "Good fences make good neighbors: Stakeholder perspectives on the local benefits and burdens of large-scale solar energy development in the United States." Energy Research & Social Science 108 (2024).

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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).

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Fujita, K Sydny, Louisa Kramer, James Diffendorfer, Dana Robson, Ben Hoen, Chris Garrity, and Jing Ke. "US Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database Files." 2026.

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Fujita, K Sydny, Zach Ancona, Louisa Kramer, James Diffendorfer, Mary Straka, Tandie E Gautreau, Dana Robson, Ben Hoen, and Chris Garrity. "Georectified polygon database of ground-mounted large-scale solar photovoltaic sites in the United States." Scientific Data (2023).

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Bolinger, Mark, and Bentham Paulos. "Revisiting Community Wind Through the Lens of Community Solar." 2023.

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Bessette, Doug, Joseph Rand, Ben Hoen, Karl Hoesch, Jake White, Sarah Mills, and Robi Nilson. Community Centered Solar Development (CCSD) Study Interviews. 2023.

Hoen, Ben, Ryan Darlow, Ryan Haac, Joseph Rand, and Ken Kaliski. "Effects of land-based wind turbine upsizing on community sound levels and power and energy density." Applied Energy 15 (2023).

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Elmallah, Salma, Ben Hoen, K Sydny Fujita, Dana Robson, and Eric Brunner. "Shedding light on large-scale solar impacts: An analysis of property values and proximity to photovoltaics across six U.S. states." Energy Policy (2023).

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