Grid Operations, Integration, and Infrastructure

Mills, Andrew D, Ryan H Wiser, and Joachim Seel. Power Plant Retirements: Trends and Possible Drivers. 2017.

Wiser, Ryan H, Andrew D Mills, Joachim Seel, Todd Levin, and Audun Botterud. Impacts of Variable Renewable Energy on Bulk Power System Assets, Pricing, and Costs. 2017.

Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare. Utility-Scale Solar 2016: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States. 2017.

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Palchak, David, Jaquelin Cochran, Ranjit Deshmukh, Ali Ehlen, Sushil Kumar Soonee, S.R Narasimhan, Mohit Joshi, Brendan McBennett, Michael Milligan, Priya Sreedharan, Ilya Chernyakhovskiy, and Nikit Abhyankar. GREENING THE GRID: Pathways to Integrate 175 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy into India’s Electric Grid, Vol. I—National Study. Vol. 1. 2017.

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Grace Wu, and Amol A Phadke. Renewable Energy Zones for Balancing Siting Trade-offs in India: Multi-Criteria Analysis for Planning Renewable Energy. 2017.

Presentation

Phadke, Amol A, Nikit Abhyankar, and Ranjit Deshmukh. Techno-Economic Assessment of Integrating 175GW of Renewable Energy into the Indian Grid by 2022. 2016.

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Bolinger, Mark, and Joachim Seel. Utility-Scale Solar 2015: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States. 2016.

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Lamy, Julian V, Paulina Jaramillo, Inês Lima Azevedo, and Ryan H Wiser. "Should we build wind farms close to load or invest in transmission to access better wind resources in remote areas? A case study in the MISO region." Energy Policy 96.September 2016 (2016) 341–350.

Mills, Andrew D, and Joachim Seel. Flexibility Inventory for Western Resource Planners. 2015.

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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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Gopal, Anand R, Maggie Witt, Nikit Abhyankar, Colin Sheppard, and Andrew Harris. Battery electric vehicles can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make renewable energy cheaper in India. 2015.

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.

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.

Mills, Andrew D, and Ryan H Wiser. "Implications of geographic diversity for short-term variability and predictability of solar power." 2011 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting. Detroit, MI, USA: IEEE, 2011. 1–9.

Mills, Andrew D, Amol A Phadke, and Ryan H Wiser. "Exploration of resource and transmission expansion decisions in the Western Renewable Energy Zone initiative." Energy Policy 39.3 (2011) 1732–1745.