Cost, Benefit, and Market Analysis

Shiraishi, Kenji, Won Young Park, Nikit Abhyankar, Umed Paliwal, Nina Khanna, Toru Morotomi, Jiang Lin, and Amol A Phadke. The 2035 Japan Report: Plummeting Costs of Solar, Wind, and Batteries Can Accelerate Japan’s Clean and Independent Electricity Future. 2023.

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Kim, James Hyungkwan, Mark Bolinger, Andrew D Mills, and Ryan H Wiser. "Rethinking the Role of Financial Transmission Rights in Wind-Rich Electricity Markets in the Central U.S." The Energy Journal 44.6 (2023).

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Seel, Joachim, Joseph Rand, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Ryan H Wiser, Will Cotton, Katherine Fisher, Olivia Kuykendall, Ari Weissfeld, and Kevin Porter. "Interconnection Cost Analysis in the PJM Territory." 2023.

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Chen, Yidan, Jiang Lin, David Roland-Holst, Xu Liu, and Can Wang. "Declining Renewable Costs, Emissions Trading, and Economic Growth: China’s Power System at the Crossroads." Energies (2023).

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Abhyankar, Nikit, Jiang Lin, Fritz Kahrl, Shengfei Yin, Umed Paliwal, Xu Liu, Nina Khanna, Qian Luo, David Wooley, Mike O’Boyle, Olivia Ashmoore, Robbie Orvis, Michelle Solomon, and Amol A Phadke. "Achieving an 80% carbon-free electricity system in China by 2035." iScience 25.10 (2022).

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Hu, Wei, Kyle Bradbury, Jordan M Malof, Boning Li, Bohao Huang, Artem Streltsov, K Sydny Fujita, and Ben Hoen. "What you get is not always what you see—pitfalls in solar array assessment using overhead imagery." Applied Energy 327 (2022).

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Seel, Joachim, Joseph Rand, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Ryan H Wiser, Will Cotton, Nicholas DiSanti, and Kevin Porter. "Generator Interconnection Cost Analysis in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) territory." 2022.

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Abhyankar, Nikit, Jiang Lin, Fredrich Kahrl, Shengfei Yin, Umed Paliwal, Xu Liu, Nina Khanna, Amol A Phadke, Qian Luo, David Wooley, Mike O’Boyle, Olivia Ashmoore, Robbie Orvis, and Michelle Solomon. Achieving an 80% Carbon Free Electricity System in China by 2035. 2022.

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Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, Cody Warner, and Dana Robson. Utility-Scale Solar, 2022 Edition: Empirical Trends in Deployment, Technology, Cost, Performance, PPA Pricing, and Value in the United States. 2022.

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Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Ben Hoen, Dev Millstein, Joseph Rand, Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, and Bentham Paulos. Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2022 Edition. 2022.

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Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Seongeun Jeong, Ryan H Wiser, Joachim Seel, and Cody Warner. Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Operating and Proposed Plants, 2022 Edition. 2022.

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Davidson, Michael R, and Dev Millstein. "Limitations of reanalysis data for wind power applications." Wind Energy (2022).

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Watson, Kevin. "Severe Weather Considerations for Siting Solar PV Systems." 2022.

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Bolinger, Mark, Ryan H Wiser, and Eric O’Shaughnessy. "Levelized cost-based learning analysis of utility-scale wind and solar in the United States." iScience 25.6 (2022).

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Beiter, Philipp, Joseph Rand, Joachim Seel, Eric Lantz, Patrick Gilman, and Ryan H Wiser. "Expert perspectives on the wind plant of the future." Wind Energy (2022).

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Barbose, Galen L, Mark Bolinger, Cristina Crespo Montañés, Sydney Forrester, James Hyungkwan Kim, Fredrich Kahrl, Andrew D Mills, Dev Millstein, Bentham Paulos, Joseph Rand, Cody Warner, and Ryan H Wiser. Batteries Included: Top 10 Findings from Berkeley Lab Research on the Growth of Hybrid Power Plants in the United States. Ed. Joachim Seel and Will Gorman. 2022.

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Rand, Joseph, Ryan H Wiser, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Joachim Seel, Seongeun Jeong, and Dana Robson. Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2021. 2022.

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Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, and Dirk C Jordan. Plant-level performance and degradation of 31 GW-DC of utility-scale PV in the United States. 2022.

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Millstein, Dev, Mark Bolinger, and Ryan H Wiser. "What can surface wind observations tell us about interannual variation in wind energy output?" Wind Energy (2022).

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Wang, Yuhan, Dev Millstein, Andrew D Mills, Seongeun Jeong, and Amos Ancell. "The cost of day-ahead solar forecasting errors in the United States." Solar Energy 231 (2022) 846–856.

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