Distributed Energy and Storage

Sandler, Simon, Bentham Paulos, and Jenna Harmon. Community Solar Consolidated Billing: An Exploration of Implementation and Alternatives. 2024.

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Schwartz, Lisa C, Natalie Mims Frick, Grace Relf, Ted Light, Josh A Schellenberg, and Alan H Sanstad. Clean Air as a Bonus for Achieving Energy-Related State Goals: A Review of Policies and Programs in 15 States. 2025.

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Forrester, Sydney, Ryan Hledik, Adam Bigelow, Natalie Mims Frick, and Kala Viswanathan. State regulatory opportunities to advance distributed energy resource aggregations in wholesale markets. 2025.

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Forrester, Sydney, Andrew Satchwell, Galen L Barbose, Evan Cappers, Cesca Miller, and Andrew Alberg. Retail Electricity Price and Cost Trends: 2024 Update. 2024.

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Forrester, Sydney, Galen L Barbose, Eric O’Shaughnessy, and Naïm R Darghouth. Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2024 Update. 2024.

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Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo. Bill Savings vs. Backup Power: Evaluating operational tradeoffs for home solar+storage systems. 2024.

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Leventis, Greg, Sydney Forrester, and Bentham Paulos. Income Verification Strategies for Income-Based Solar Programs. 2024.

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McAdams, Jasmine, and Nichole L Hanus. Establishing and Maintaining Engagement for a Distributional Equity Analysis. 2024.

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Forrester, Sydney, Cristina Crespo Montañés, Eric O’Shaughnessy, and Galen L Barbose. "Modeling the potential effects of rooftop solar on household energy burden in the United States." Nature Communications 15 (2024).

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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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Barbose, Galen L. "One Year In: Tracking the Impacts of NEM 3.0 on California’s Residential Solar Market." 2024.

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Kahrl, Fritz, and Jiang Lin. "Changing economics of China’s power system suggest that batteries and renewables may be a lower cost way to meet peak demand growth than coal." iScience 27.2 (2024).

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Forrester, Sydney, Galen L Barbose, Eric O’Shaughnessy, Naïm R Darghouth, and Cristina Crespo Montañés. Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2023 Update. 2023.

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O’Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L Barbose, Alexandra Grayson, Isa Ferrall-Wolf, and Deborah Sunter. "Impacts of non-residential solar on residential adoption decisions." Frontiers in Sustainable Energy Policy 2 (2023).

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Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Cesca Miller, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, and Philip White. Solar+Storage for Household Back-up Power: Implications of building efficiency, load flexibility, and electrification for backup during long-duration power interruptions. 2023.

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Baik, Sunhee, Galen L Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Cesca Miller, Will Gorman, and Michael Spears. "Backup Power Performance of Solar-plus-Storage Systems during Routine Power Interruptions: A Case Study Application of Berkeley Lab’s PRESTO Model." 2023.

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O’Shaughnessy, Eric, Alexandra Grayson, and Galen L Barbose. "The role of peer influence in rooftop solar adoption inequity in the United States." Energy Economics 127 (2023).

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Forrester, Sydney, Cole Triedman, Sam Kozel, Cameron Brooks, and Peter Cappers. Third-Party Aggregation Rulemaking in MISO and SPP Footprints. 2023.

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Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Eric O’Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester. Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States, 2023 Edition. 2023.

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Jones, Evan, and Joseph H Eto. Financing End-Use Solar Technologies in a Restructured Electricity Industry: Comparing the Cost of Public Policies. Berkeley: LBNL, 1997.

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