Market Tracking and Analysis

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Vasu Gaur, and Ben Hoen. "Solar on Residential New Construction Datasets." 2026.

Solar New Home Shares XLSX

Solar New Home Attributes XLSX

Dataset Documentation and Use-Case Examples PDF

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Eric O’Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester. "U.S. Distributed Solar and Storage Data." 2025.

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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.

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, 2024 Edition. 2024.

Executive Summary PDF

Public Data File User Guide PDF

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Cesca Miller, Phillip White, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Sunhee Baik. "Evaluating the potential for solar-plus-storage backup power in the United States as homes integrate efficient, flexible, and electrified energy technologies." Energy 304 (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.

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.

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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Supplemental Information PDF

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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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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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Barbose, Galen L, and Sydney Forrester. Solar PV on U.S. Houses of Worship: Overview of Market Activity and Trends. 2023.

O’Shaughnessy, Eric, James Hyungkwan Kim, and Naïm R Darghouth. "Technological diffusion trends suggest a more equitable future for rooftop solar in the United States." Environmental Research Letters 18.2 (2023).

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Brittan, Grace, and Ben Hoen. Starting with Solar: A Preliminary Assessment of Solar Energy Systems in Residential New Construction. 2023.

O’Shaughnessy, Eric, Sydney Forrester, and Galen L Barbose. "Supply sunspots and shadows: Business siting patterns and inequitable rooftop solar adoption in the United States." Energy Research & Social Science 96 (2023).

Preprint Journal Article PDF

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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: November 2022 Update. 2022.

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, 2022 Edition. 2022.

Summary Brief PDF

Summary Data Tables XLSX

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.

O’Shaughnessy, Eric. "Rooftop solar incentives remain effective for low- and moderate-income adoption." Energy Policy 163 (2022).

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