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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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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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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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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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Millstein, Dev, Ryan H Wiser, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, James Hyungkwan Kim, and Amos Ancell. Empirical Estimates of Transmission Value using Locational Marginal Prices. 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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Lin, Jiang, Nikit Abhyankar, Gang He, Xu Liu, and Shengfei Yin. "Large balancing areas and dispersed renewable investment enhance grid flexibility in a renewable-dominant power system in China." iScience 25.2 (2022).

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Seel, Joachim, and Andrew D Mills. Integrating Cambium Marginal Costs into Electric Sector Decisions: Opportunities to Integrate Cambium Marginal Cost Data into Berkeley Lab Analysis and Technical Assistance. 2021.

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Montañés, Cristina Crespo, Will Gorman, Andrew D Mills, and James Hyungkwan Kim. Keep it short: Exploring the impacts of configuration choices on the recent economics of solar-plus-battery and wind-plus-battery hybrid energy plants. 2021.

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Seel, Joachim, Dev Millstein, Andrew D Mills, Mark Bolinger, and Ryan H Wiser. "Plentiful electricity turns wholesale prices negative." Advances in Applied Energy 4 (2021).

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Mills, Andrew D, Joachim Seel, Dev Millstein, James Hyungkwan Kim, Seongeun Jeong, Cody Warner, and Will Gorman. Solar-to-Grid: Trends in System Impacts, Reliability, and Market Value in the United States with Data Through 2020. 2021.

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Seel, Joachim, Cody Warner, and Andrew D Mills. "Influence of Business Models on PV-Battery Dispatch Decisions and Market Value." Advances in Applied Energy (2021).

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Kahrl, Fredrich, James Hyungkwan Kim, Andrew D Mills, Ryan H Wiser, Cristina Crespo Montañés, and Will Gorman. Variable Renewable Energy Participation in U.S. Ancillary Services Markets: Economic Evaluation and Key Issues. 2021.

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Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, Cody Warner, and Dana Robson. Utility-Scale Solar, 2021 Edition: Empirical Trends in Deployment, Technology, Cost, Performance, PPA Pricing, and Value in the United States. 2021.

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Kim, James Hyungkwan, Andrew D Mills, Ryan H Wiser, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Cristina Crespo Montañés, and Eric O’Shaughnessy. "Project developer options to enhance the value of solar electricity as solar and storage penetrations increase." Applied Energy 304 (2021).

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Lin, Jiang, Nikit Abhyankar, Gang He, Xu Liu, and Shengfei Yin. Enhancing grid flexibility under scenarios of a renewable-dominant power system in China. 2021.

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Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Ryan H Wiser, Seongeun Jeong, Joachim Seel, Cody Warner, and Bentham Paulos. Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Installed and Proposed Projects. 2021.

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Millstein, Dev, Ryan H Wiser, Andrew D Mills, Mark Bolinger, Joachim Seel, and Seongeun Jeong. "Solar and wind grid system value in the United States: The effect of transmission congestion, generation profiles, and curtailment." Joule (2021).

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Rand, Joseph, Mark Bolinger, Ryan H Wiser, Seongeun Jeong, and Bentham Paulos. Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2020. 2021.

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