Rate Design, Regulations, and Programs

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Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo. "Backup power or bill savings? How electricity tariffs impact residential solar-plus-storage usage in the United States." Utilities Policy 96 (2025) 102035.

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

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.

Bolinger, Mark, and Natalie Mims Frick. Consumer Benefits of Clean Energy: Renewable Energy. Ed. Ryan H Wiser. 2024.

Frick, Natalie Mims, Sunhee Baik, Mark Bolinger, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Cesca Miller, Dev Millstein, Sean Murphy, Margaret Pigman, and Lisa C Schwartz. "Consumer Benefits of Clean Energy: Policy Brief." 2024.

Sandonato, Anthony, Bentham Paulos, and Greg Leventis. "Community Solar for Opportunity States: An exploration of development models for community solar projects in states that lack explicit enabling policies." 2024.

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

Paulos, Bentham. A Program Design Combining Community Solar and Weatherization for Manufactured Homes in Michigan. 2024.

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

Ingram, Michael, David Narang, Xiangkun Li, Caitlin Marquis, Debbie Lew, and Sydney Forrester. "DER Interconnection Workshop." 2022.

Satchwell, Andrew, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Peter Cappers, James Milford, and Hadi Eshraghi. Quantifying the Financial Impacts of Electric Vehicles on Utility Ratepayers and Shareholders. 2023.

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Forrester, Sydney, Galen L Barbose, and Cesca Miller. "Private vs. public value of U.S. residential battery storage operated for solar self-consumption." iScience 25.8 (2022).

Summary Briefing PDF

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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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Gill, Carrie, Shauna Beland, Ryan Constable, Tim Roughan, Caitlin Broderick, Stephen Lasher, Joyce McLaren, Sherin Abraham, Anthony Teixeria, Naïm R Darghouth, and Sydney Forrester. Use of Operating Agreements and Energy Storage to Reduce Photovoltaic Interconnection Costs: Conceptual Framework. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2022.

McLaren, Joyce, Sherin Abraham, Naïm R Darghouth, and Sydney Forrester. Use of Operating Agreements and Energy Storage to Reduce Photovoltaic Interconnection Costs: Technical and Economic Analysis. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2022.

Forrester, Sydney, and Peter Cappers. Opportunities and Challenges to Capturing Distributed Battery Value via Retail Utility Rates and Programs. 2021.