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Seel, Joachim, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Anna Cheyette, Will Gorman, Jessalyn Chuang, and Dev Millstein. Identifying Barriers to Solar and Storage Hybrids: Modeled vs. empirical wholesale market value and net-value for co-located solar + storage projects. 2026.

Rand, Joseph, Anna Cheyette, Chris Talley, Steven Zhang, Will Gorman, Ryan H Wiser, Joachim Seel, Seongeun Jeong, and Fredrich Kahrl. U.S. Interconnection Queue Data Through 2025: Complete Interconnection Request Dataset and Summarized Data Workbook. 2026.

O’Shaughnessy, Eric, Angelica Chavez Duckworth, Samantha Houck, and Galen L Barbose. "Solar cities: A case study analysis of city-level enablers of expanded solar energy access." Energy Research & Social Science 127 (2025) 104321.

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Gorman, Will, Joseph Rand, Anna Cheyette, Joachim Seel, Seongeun Jeong, and Ryan H Wiser. "Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Operating and Proposed Plants, 2025 Data Update." 2025.

Seel, Joachim, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Anna Cheyette, Will Gorman, Naïm R Darghouth, Dana Robson, Joseph Rand, and Seongeun Jeong. "U.S. Utility-Scale Solar, 2025 Data Update." 2025.

Wiser, Ryan H, Eric O’Shaughnessy, Galen L Barbose, Peter Cappers, and Will Gorman. "Factors Influencing Recent Trends in Retail Electricity Prices in the United States." The Electricity Journal 38.4 (2025).

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Wiser, Ryan H, Dev Millstein, Ben Hoen, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Joachim Seel, Galen L Barbose, Anna Cheyette, Naïm R Darghouth, Seongeun Jeong, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Eric O’Shaughnessy, and Bentham Paulos. "Land-Based Wind Energy Technology Update: 2025 Edition." 2025.

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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.

Rand, Joseph, Nick Manderlink, Steven Zhang, Chris Talley, Will Gorman, Ryan H Wiser, Joachim Seel, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Seongeun Jeong, and Fredrich Kahrl. "Queued Up: 2025 Edition, Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2024." 2025.

Seel, Joachim, Nick Manderlink, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Joseph Rand, Will Gorman, Ryan H Wiser, Will Cotton, and Kevin Porter. Generator Interconnection Costs to the Transmission System in non-ISO Balancing Authorities. 2026.

Gorman, Will, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Joseph Rand, Joachim Seel, Ryan H Wiser, Nick Manderlink, Fredrich Kahrl, Kevin Porter, and Will Cotton. "Grid connection barriers to renewable energy deployment in the United States." Joule (2024) 101791.

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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.

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.

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Gorman, Will, Joseph Rand, Nick Manderlink, Anna Cheyette, Mark Bolinger, Joachim Seel, Seongeun Jeong, and Ryan H Wiser. Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Operating and Proposed Plants, 2024 Edition. 2024.

Kahrl, Fredrich, Jennie Jorgenson, Lawryn Kiboma, James Hyungkwan Kim, Dev Millstein, Brian Sergi, and Natalie Mims Frick. Solar and Storage Integration in the Southeastern United States: Economics, Reliability, and Operations. 2024.

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Kim, James Hyungkwan, Dev Millstein, Ryan H Wiser, and Julie Mulvaney Kemp. "Renewable-Battery Hybrid Power Plants in Congested Electricity Markets: Implications for Plant Configuration." Renewable Energy 232 (2024).

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Wiser, Ryan H, Dev Millstein, Ben Hoen, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Galen L Barbose, Anna Cheyette, Naïm R Darghouth, Seongeun Jeong, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Eric O’Shaughnessy, Bentham Paulos, and Joachim Seel. Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2024 Edition. 2024.

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Millstein, Dev, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Will Gorman, and Ryan H Wiser. "Transmission value in 2023: Market data shows the value of transmission remained high in certain locations despite overall low wholesale electricity prices." 2024.

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Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Dev Millstein, and Joachim Seel. Grid Value and Cost of Utility-Scale Wind and Solar: Potential Implications for Consumer Electricity Bills. 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).

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