Cost, Benefit, and Market Analysis

Wiser, Ryan H, Trieu Mai, Dev Millstein, Jordan Macknick, Alberta Carpenter, Stuart Cohen, Wesley Cole, Bethany Frew, and Garvin A Heath. The Environmental and Public Health Benefits of Achieving High Penetrations of Solar Energy in the United States. Berkeley, CA, 2016.

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Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, and Manfei Wu. Maximizing MWh: A Statistical Analysis of the Performance of Utility-Scale Photovoltaic Projects in the United States. 2016.

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Wu, Grace, Ranjit Deshmukh, Kudakwashe Ndhlukula, Tijana Radojicic, and Jessica Reilly. Renewable Energy Zones for the Africa Clean Energy Corridor. 2015.

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Wiser, Ryan H, Eric Lantz, Trieu Mai, Jose Zayas, Edgar A DeMeo, Ed Eugeni, Jessica Lin-Powers, and Richard Tusing. "Wind Vision: A New Era for Wind Power in the United States." The Electricity Journal 28.9 (2015).

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Mai, Trieu, Wesley Cole, Venkat Krishnan, and Mark Bolinger. "Impact of Federal Tax Policy on Utility-Scale Solar Deployment Given Financing Interactions." 2015.

Bolinger, Mark, and Joachim Seel. Utility-Scale Solar 2014: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States. 2015.

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Wiser, Ryan H, and Mark Bolinger. 2014 Wind Technologies Market Report. Ed. Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D Mills, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Dev Millstein, Dana Hansen, Kevin Porter, Rebecca Widiss, Michael Buckley, Frank Oteri, Aaron Smith, and Suzanne Tegen. Department of Energy, 2015.

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Barbose, Galen L, Lori Bird, Jenny Heeter, Francisco Flores, and Ryan H Wiser. "Costs and Benefits of Renewables Portfolio Standards in the United States." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 52 (2015) 523–533.

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Vitina, Aisma, Silke Lüers, Anna-Kathrin Wallasch, Volker Berkhout, Aidan Duffy, Brendan Cleary, Lief I Husabø, David E Weir, Roberto Lacal-Arántegui, M Maureen Hand, Eric Lantz, Kathy Belyeu, Ryan H Wiser, Mark Bolinger, and Ben Hoen. IEA Wind Task 26: Wind Technology, Cost, and Performance Trends in Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Norway, the European Union, and the United States: 2007–2012. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), 2015.

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Bolinger, Mark, Samantha Weaver, and Jarett Zuboy. "Is $50/MWh Solar for Real? Falling Project Prices and Rising Capacity Factors Drive Utility-Scale PV Toward Economic Competitiveness." Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications (2015).

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Mills, Andrew D, and Ryan H Wiser. "Strategies to mitigate declines in the economic value of wind and solar at high penetration in California." Applied Energy 147 (2015) 269–278.

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Mills, Andrew D, and Ryan H Wiser. "Changes in the Economic Value of Variable Generation at High Penetration Levels: A Pilot Case Study of California." 18th Annual POWER Conference on Energy Research and Policy. Berkeley, California, 2013.

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H Wiser. "Understanding wind turbine price trends in the U.S. over the past decade." Energy Policy 42 (2012) 628–641.

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Mills, Andrew D, and Ryan H Wiser. "Changes in the economic value of wind energy and flexible resources at increasing penetration levels in the Rocky Mountain Power Area." Wind Energy 17.11 (2013) 1711–1726.

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Mills, Andrew D, and Ryan H Wiser. "Changes in the Economic Value of Photovoltaic Generation at High Penetration Levels: A Pilot Case Study of California." IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 3.4 (2013) 1394–1402.

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Barbose, Galen L, Jenny Heeter, Lori Bird, Samantha Weaver, Francisco Flores-Espino, and Ryan H Wiser. "Costs and Benefits of U.S. Renewables Portfolio Standards." International Associaton for Energy Economics Energy Forum Third Quarter 2014 (2014).

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Arent, Douglas J, Jacquelyn Pless, Trieu Mai, Ryan H Wiser, M Maureen Hand, Samuel F Baldwin, Garvin A Heath, Jordan Macknick, Morgan Bazilian, Adam Schlosser, and Paul Denholm. "Implications of high renewable electricity penetration in the U.S. for water use, greenhouse gas emissions, land-use, and materials supply." Applied Energy 123 (2014) 368–377.

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Mai, Trieu, M Maureen Hand, Samuel F Baldwin, Ryan H Wiser, Greg L Brinkman, Paul Denholm, Douglas J Arent, Gian Porro, Debra Sandor, Donna J Hostick, Michael Milligan, Edgar A DeMeo, and Morgan Bazilian. "Renewable Electricity Futures for the United States." IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy 5.2 (2014) 372–378.

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Bolinger, Mark, and Samantha Weaver. Utility-Scale Solar 2013: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States. 2014.

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