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Please reach out at wgorman@lbl.gov if you have trouble accessing any of the below research papers. 

Publications

Journals:

• County-level assessment of behind-the-meter solar and storage to mitigate long duration power interruptions for residential customers. Will Gorman, Galen Barbose, JP Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Chandler Miller, Phil White, Marlena Praprost, Applied Energy, 342:(2023)

• Economic evaluation of variable renewable energy participation in US ancillary services markets. James Kim, Fritz Kahrl, Andrew Mills, Ryan Wiser, Cris Crespo Montañés, Will Gorman, Utilities Policy 82:(2023).

• Mind the gap: Comparing the net value of geothermal, wind, solar, and solar+ storage in the Western United States. Mark Bolinger, Dev Millstein, Will Gorman, Patrick Dobson, Seongeun Jeong, Renewable Energy, 205:(2023) 

• The quest to quantify the value of lost load: A critical review of the economics of power outages.  Will Gorman, The Electricity Journal,  35: (2022)

• Keep it short: Exploring the impacts of configuration choices on the recent economics of solar-plus-battery and wind-plus-battery hybrid energy plants.  Cristina Crespo Montanes, Will Gorman,  Andrew Mills, James Kim, Journal of Energy Storage,  50: (2022)

• Are coupled renewable-battery power plants more valuable than independently sited installations?  Will Gorman, Cristina Crespo Montanes, Andrew Mills, James Kim, Dev Millstein, Ryan Wiser, Energy Economics,  107: (2022)

• Project developer options to enhance the value of solar electricity as solar and storage penetrations increase.  James Kim, Andrew Mills, Ryan Wiser, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Cristina Crespo Montanes, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Applied Energy,  283: (2021)

• The impact of wind, solar, and other factors on the decline in wholesale power prices in the United States.  Andrew Mills, Ryan Wiser, Dev Millstein, JP Carvallo, Will Gorman, Joachim Seel, Seongeun Jeong, Applied Energy,  304: (2021)

• System-level performance and degradation of 21 GWDC of utility-scale PV plants in the United States.  Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 12 (4): (2020)

• Motivations and options for deploying hybrid generator-plus-battery projects within the bulk power system.  Will Gorman, Andrew Mills, Mark Bolinger, Ryan Wiser, Nikita Singhal, Erik Ela, and Eric O'Shaughnessy. The Electricity Journal,  33 (5): (2020)

• Should I Stay Or Should I Go? The importance of electricity rate design for household defection from the power grid.  Will Gorman, Stephen Jarvis, and Duncan Callaway. Applied Energy,  262 (2020)

• Improving estimates of transmission capital costs for utility-scale wind and solar projects to inform renewable energy policy.  Will Gorman, Andrew Mills, and Ryan Wiser. Energy Policy,  135 (2019)

• Quantifying the impact of U.S. electric vehicle sales on light-duty vehicle fleet CO2 emissions using a novel agent-based simulation. Lucas Spangher, Will Gorman, Gordon Bauer, Yanzhi Xua, and Chris Atkinson. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment,  72: 358-377 (2019)

• Long-term U.S transportation electricity use considering the effect of autonomous-vehicles: Estimates & policy observations. Peter Fox-Penner, Will Gorman, and Jennifer Hatch. Energy Policy,  122: 203-213 (2018)

• The electrification accelerator: Understanding the implications of autonomous vehicles for electric utilities. Jurgen Weiss, Ryan Hledik, Roger Lueken, Tony Lee, and Will Gorman. The Electricity Journal, 30 (10): 50-57 (2017)

• The practicality of distributed PV-battery systems to reduce household grid reliance. Philip Hanser, Roger Lueken,  Will Gorman, and James Mashal. Utilities Policy, 46: 22-32 (2017)

• Using BEopt (EnergyPlus) with energy audits and surveys to predict actual residential energy usage. Joshua Rhodes, Will Gorman, Charles Upshaw, and Michael Webber. Energy and Buildings, 86: 808-816 (2015)

• Community-scale residential air conditioning control for effective grid management. Wesley Cole, Joshua Rhodes, Will Gorman, Krystian Perez, Michael Webber, and Thomas Edgar. Applied Energy, 130: 428-436 (2014)

Non-LBNL Technical reports:

• The Value of TOU Tariffs in Great Britain: Insights for Decision-makers. Ryan Hledik, Will Gorman, Nicole Irwin, Michael Fell, Moira Nicolson, and Gesche Huebner.  (2017)

• Electrification: Emerging Opportunities for Utility Growth. Jurgen Weiss, Ryan Hledik, Michael Hagerty, and Will Gorman.  (2017)

• Clean Energy Resource Options for Massachusetts to Meet GHG Reduction Goals under the Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA). Judy Chang, Michael Hagerty, and Will Gorman with Contributions from Peter Fox-Penner, David Cash, and Ann Berwick. (2016)

• Cost-Benefit Analysis of ERCOT’s Future Ancillary Services (FAS) Proposal. Samuel Newell, Rebecca Carroll, Pablo Ruiz, and Will Gorman. (2015)

• Comparative Generation Costs of Utility-Scale and Residential-Scale PV in Xcel Energy Colorado’s Service Area.  Bruce Tsuchida, Sanem Sergici, Bob Mudge, Will Gorman, Peter Fox-Penner, and Jens Schoene.  (2015)

• EPA’s Clean Power Plan and Reliability: Assessing NERC’s Initial Reliability Review. Jurgen Weiss, Bruce Tsuchida Michael Hagerty, and Will Gorman. (2015)

Selected work in progress:

• Analyzing the capability of behind-the-meter solar and storage to provide household power during power outages

• Assessing barriers to transmission and interconnection of renewable energy projects

• Estimating the value of reliability for residential electricity consumers

Academic papers:

• Undergraduate Thesis: Re-evaluating the Energy Efficiency Gap in Austin: How the Principal-Agent Problem Affects the Adoption of Efficient Technologies.  (2014)