engagement

Presentations, talks, and other works

OpEds & Popular articles:

• How do you solve a problem like interconnection? -- (PV Tech magazine, 05/2024)

• Could solar and batteries power your home when the electricity grid goes out? -- (The Conversation, 09/2022)

• Meet the power plant of the future: Solar + battery hybrids are poised for explosive growth -- (The Conversation, 04/2022)

• Hybrid renewables-plus-battery power plants are growing rapidly — are they a good idea? -- (Power PV Tech Magazine, 08/2021)

• Where should batteries be put to manage wind and solar power? -- (Utility Dive, 05/2021)

• Hybrid Power Plants Are Growing Rapidly, But Are They a Good Idea? -- (Green Tech Media, 04/2020)

• Spread of self-driving cars could cause more pollution – unless the electric grid transforms radically -- (The Conversation,  10/2018) 

Podcasts:

• Cutting the Queue and Emissions in the US Power Sector -- (Resources Radio by Resources for the Future, 10/2023)

• Hybrid Generation + Storage: Key Efficiency or Mere Tax Opportunity? -- (Energy Central Power Perspectives, 06/2020)

• Hybrid Power Plants -- (The Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder, 05/2020)

Webinars:

• i2X Solution e-Xchange: Introducing the DOE Transmission Interconnection Roadmap -- (DOE, 05/2024)

• Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2023 --(LBNL, 04/2024)

• Solar+Storage for Household Back-up Power -- (LBNL, 12/2023)

• Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Operating and Proposed Plants, 2023 Edition -- (LBNL, 09/2023)

• Behind-the-Meter Solar-plus-Storage for Providing Backup during Long-Duration Power Interruption -- (LBNL, 10/2022)

• Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Operating and Proposed Plants, 2022 Edition -- (LBNL, 08/2022)

• Top 10 Findings from Berkeley Lab Research on the Growth of Hybrid Power Plants in the United States -- (LBNL, 05/2022)

• Are coupled renewable-battery power plants more valuable than independently sited installations? -- (LBNL, 06/2021)

• Motivations and options for deploying hybrid generator-plus-battery projects within the bulk power system -- (LBNL,  03/2020) 

• Improving estimates of transmission capital costs for utility-scale wind and solar projects to inform renewable energy policy -- (LBNL,  11/2019) 

Conference and Public Talks:

• Interconnection Innovation eXchange: A Roadmap for Unlocking Queue Backlogs -- (NARUC, 12/2023)

• Interconnection Innovation eXchange: A Roadmap for Unlocking Queue Backlogs -- (ESIG, 10/2023)

• Are Hybrids the Power Plant of the Future? Wind Energy Fellows, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 2022.

• Are coupled renewable-battery power plants more valuable than independently sited installations? Energy Systems Integration Group 2021 Fall Technical Workshop, Online Webinar, October 2021.

• Location matters: exposing the geospatial constraints of renewable plus storage hybrid energy systems, American Clean Power, June 2021.

• Hybrid panel, Energy Storage Summit USA 2021, March 2021.

• Location matters: exposing the geospatial constraints of renewable plus storage hybrid energy systems, INFORMS,  November 2021.

• Technical Conference regarding Hybrid Resources, FERC Technical Conference, July 2020. 

• The Rise of the Hybrid Power Plant. American Wind Energy Association: Clean Power, Online Webinar,  May 2020. 

• The Rise of the Hybrid Power Plant. Energy Systems Integration Group 2020 Spring Technical Workshop, Online Webinar, April 2020. 

• Should I Stay Or Should I Go? The importance of electric rate design for household defection from the power grid.  United States Association of Energy Economics, Denver, Colorado, November 2019.

• Improving estimates of transmission capital costs for utility-scale wind and solar projects to inform renewable energy policy. Energy Policy Research Conference, Boise, Idaho, October 2019.  

• The costs and benefits of transmission for wind integration across the U.S. American Wind Energy Association: Wind Power, Houston, Texas, May 2019.  

• Can't do it on my own: results from a PV-battery optimization model.  United States Association of Energy Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 2015. 

• Using BEopt to predict actual residential energy consumption. Webber Energy Group Symposium, Austin, Texas, January 2014.