Bibliography

Catalyst Publications

Data, software, and analyses that we have published for public use. We self-archive all of our publications on Zenodo

[GS20]

Christina Gosnell and Zane Selvans. Ferc form 1 database (1994-2018). Dataset archived on Zenodo, 2020. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3677547 (visited on 2021-11-01), doi:10.5281/zenodo.3677547.

[GS21a]

Christina Gosnell and Zane Selvans. PUDL raw census DP1 tract geodatabase. Dataset archived on Zenodo, 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4127048 (visited on 2021-11-01), doi:10.5281/zenodo.4127048.

[GS21b]

Christina Gosnell and Zane Selvans. PUDL raw EIA 860m. Dataset archived on Zenodo, 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4281336 (visited on 2021-11-01), doi:10.5281/zenodo.4281336.

[GS21c]

Christina Gosnell and Zane Selvans. PUDL raw EIA form 860. Dataset archived on Zenodo, 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4127026 (visited on 2021-11-01), doi:10.5281/zenodo.4127026.

[GS21d]

Christina Gosnell and Zane Selvans. PUDL raw EIA form 861. Dataset archived on Zenodo, 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4127028 (visited on 2021-11-01), doi:10.5281/zenodo.4127028.

[GS21e]

Christina Gosnell and Zane Selvans. PUDL raw EIA form 923. Dataset archived on Zenodo, 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4127039 (visited on 2021-11-01), doi:10.5281/zenodo.4127039.

[GS21f]

Christina Gosnell and Zane Selvans. PUDL raw EPA CEMS hourly. Dataset archived on Zenodo, 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4127054 (visited on 2021-11-01), doi:10.5281/zenodo.4127054.

[GS21g]

Christina Gosnell and Zane Selvans. PUDL raw FERC form 1. Dataset archived on Zenodo, 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4127043 (visited on 2021-11-01), doi:10.5281/zenodo.4127043.

[GS21h]

Christina Gosnell and Zane Selvans. PUDL raw FERC form 714. Dataset archived on Zenodo, 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4127100 (visited on 2021-11-01), doi:10.5281/zenodo.4127100.

[GS21i]

Christina Gosnell and Zane Selvans. PUDL US hourly electricity demand by state. Dataset archived on Zenodo, 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5348395 (visited on 2021-11-01), doi:10.5281/zenodo.5348395.

[lam24]

The Public Utility Data Liberation Project: Providing Open Data for a Clean Energy Transition, Zenodo, October 2024. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13948332, doi:10.5281/zenodo.13948332.

[SGS+21a]

Zane Selvans, Christina Gosnell, Austen Sharpe, Steven Winter, Trenton Bush, Jan Rousik, and Ethan Welty. The Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) Project. GitHub repository archived on Zenodo, 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3404014 (visited on 2021-11-01), doi:10.5281/zenodo.3404014.

[SGS+21b]

Zane A. Selvans, Christina M. Gosnell, Austen Sharpe, Steven Winter, Ethan Welty, and Jan Rousik. PUDL data releases. Dataset archived on Zenodo, 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3653158 (visited on 2021-11-01), doi:10.5281/zenodo.3653158.

Work Citing Catalyst/PUDL

Academic, policy, and industry publications that reference PUDL and analyses done by Catalyst Cooperative.

[BM20]

John E.T. Bistline and James H. Merrick. Parameterizing open-source energy models: statistical learning to estimate unknown power plant attributes. Applied Energy, 269:114941, 2020. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261920304530 (visited on 2021-11-01), doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.114941.

[Cli]

Open Source Climate. Open source climate initiative. Website. URL: https://www.os-climate.org/ (visited on 2021-10-15).

[DMGM20]

Steven Dahlke, Mahesh Morjaria, Vahan Gevorgian, and Barry Mather. The economics of flexible solar for electricity markets in transition. Technical Report, First Solar, 2020. URL: https://www.firstsolar.com/es-CSA/-/media/First-Solar/Documents/Grid-Evolution/The_Economics_of_Flexible_Solar_for_Electricity_Markets_in_Transition.ashx (visited on 2021-11-01).

[DHR23]

Lucas W. Davis, Catherine Hausman, and Nancy L. Rose. Transmission impossible? prospects for decarbonizing the U.S. grid. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 37(4):155–80, December 2023. URL: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.37.4.155, doi:10.1257/jep.37.4.155.

[DJJ+20]

Joseph F. DeCarolis, Paulina Jaramillo, Jeremiah X. Johnson, David L. McCollum, Evelina Trutnevyte, David C. Daniels, Gökçe Akın-Olçum, Joule Bergerson, Soolyeon Cho, Joon-Ho Choi, Michael T. Craig, Anderson R. de Queiroz, Hadi Eshraghi, Christopher S. Galik, Timothy G. Gutowski, Karl R. Haapala, Bri-Mathias Hodge, Simi Hoque, Jesse D. Jenkins, Alan Jenn, Daniel J.A. Johansson, Noah Kaufman, Juha Kiviluoma, Zhenhong Lin, Heather L. MacLean, Eric Masanet, Mohammad S. Masnadi, Colin A. McMillan, Destenie S. Nock, Neha Patankar, Dalia Patino-Echeverri, Greg Schivley, Sauleh Siddiqui, Amanda D. Smith, Aranya Venkatesh, Gernot Wagner, Sonia Yeh, and Yuyu Zhou. Leveraging open-source tools for collaborative macro-energy system modeling efforts. Joule, 4:2523–2526, 12 2020. URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2020.11.002, doi:10.1016/j.joule.2020.11.002.

[DK21]

Priya L. Donti and J. Zico Kolter. Machine learning for sustainable energy systems. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 46(1):719–747, 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-020220-061831, arXiv:https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-020220-061831, doi:10.1146/annurev-environ-020220-061831.

[Fit21]

Tyler Fitch. Carbon stranding: climate risk and stranded assets in duke's integrated resource plan. Technical Report, Energy Transition Institute, January 2021. URL: https://votesolar.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ETI_CarbonStrandingReport_2021.pdf (visited on 2021-10-14).

[GMOBoyle21]

Eric Gimon, Amanda Meyers, and Mike O'Boyle. Coal cost crossover 2.0. Technical Report, Energy Innovation, 2021. URL: https://energyinnovation.org/publication/the-coal-cost-crossover-2021/ (visited on 2021-10-14).

[GOBoyleCM19]

Eric Gimon, Mike O'Boyle, Christopher T M Clack, and Sarah A McKee. The coal cost crossover: economic viability of existing coal compared to new local wind and solar resources. Technical Report, Energy Innovation and Vibrant Clean Energy, 2019. URL: https://energyinnovation.org/publication/the-coal-cost-crossover/ (visited on 2021-10-14).

[Leh18]

Ron Lehr. Utility transition financial impacts: from fossil to clean. Technical Report, Energy Innovation, 2018. URL: https://energyinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/From-Fossil-to-Clean-Brief_12.3.18.pdf (visited on 2021-10-15).

[MPSJ23]

Gregory J Miller, Gailin Pease, Wenbo Shi, and Alan Jenn. Evaluating the hourly emissions intensity of the U.S. electricity system. Environmental Research Letters, 18(4):044020, April 2023. URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acc119, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/acc119.

[OFallonG21]

Cheyney O'Fallon and Avi Gopstein. Quantifying Operational Resilience Benefits of the Smart Grid. Department of Commerce. National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.2137, doi:10.6028/NIST.TN.2137.

[Pes21]

Ari Peskoe. Is the utility transmission syndicate forever? Energy Law Journal, 2021. URL: https://www.eba-net.org/assets/1/6/5_-_%5BPeskoe%5D%5B1-66%5D.pdf (visited on 2021-11-01), doi:10.2139/ssrn.3770740.

[SWP21]

Greg Schivley, Ethan Welty, and Neha Patankar. Powergenome/powergenome: v0.4.2. GitHub repository archived on Zenodo, aug 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5347792, doi:10.5281/zenodo.5347792.

[SHvdNDsouza+21]

Jonathan Sims, Catharina Hillenbrand von der Neyen, Durand D‘souza, Lily Chau, Nicolás González-Jiménez, and Lorenzo Sani. Put gas on standby. Technical Report, Carbon Tracker Initiative, 2021. URL: https://carbontracker.org/reports/put-gas-on-standby/ (visited on 2021-10-30).

[WZ23]

John D. Wilson and Zach Zimmerman. The era of flat power demand is over. Technical Report, Grid Strategies LLC, December 2023. URL: https://gridstrategiesllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/National-Load-Growth-Report-2023.pdf.

[ZSHG+24]

Rangrang Zheng, Greg Schivley, Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez, Matthias Fripp, and Michael J. Roberts. Optimal transmission expansion minimally reduces decarbonization costs of U.S. electricity. 2024. URL: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.14189, arXiv:2402.14189, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2402.14189.

Further Reading

Other research and publications relevant to the work we do.

[AAB+21]

Ryan P. Abernathey, Tom Augspurger, Anderson Banihirwe, Charles C. Blackmon-Luca, Timothy J. Crone, Chelle L. Gentemann, Joseph J. Hamman, Naomi Henderson, Chiara Lepore, Theo A. McCaie, Niall H. Robinson, and Richard P. Signell. Cloud-native repositories for big scientific data. Computing in Science & Engineering, 23(2):26–35, March 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2021.3059437, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2021.3059437.

[BSL+20]

Marilyn A Brown, Anmol Soni, Melissa V Lapsa, Katie Southworth, and Matt Cox. High energy burden and low-income energy affordability: conclusions from a literature review. Progress in Energy, 2(4):042003, oct 2020. URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1083/abb954, doi:10.1088/2516-1083/abb954.

[Bro19]

Patrick R. Brown. Spatial and temporal variation in the value of solar power across United States electricity markets. December 2019. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3562896, doi:10.5281/zenodo.3562896.

[BOSullivan19a]

Patrick R. Brown and Francis M. O'Sullivan. Shaping photovoltaic array output to align with changing wholesale electricity price profiles. September 2019. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3368397, doi:10.5281/zenodo.3368397.

[BOSullivan20]

Patrick R. Brown and Francis M. O'Sullivan. Spatial and temporal variation in the value of solar power across united states electricity markets. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 121:109594, 2020. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032119308020, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2019.109594.

[BOSullivan19b]

Patrick R. Brown and Francis M. O’Sullivan. Shaping photovoltaic array output to align with changing wholesale electricity price profiles. Applied Energy, 256:113734, 2019. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261919314217, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113734.

[CV20]

Danny Cullenward and David G. Victor. Making Climate Policy Work. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2020. ISBN 9781509541805. URL: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Making+Climate+Policy+Work-p-9781509541805.

[DJB+21]

Tim Donaghy, Charlie Jiang, Colette Pichon Battle, Emma Collin, Ryan Schleeter, and Janet Redman. Fossil fuel racism: how phasing out oil, gas, and coal can protect communities. Technical Report, Greenpeace USA, 2021. URL: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/reports/fossil-fuel-racism/ (visited on 2021-10-15).

[DRA20]

Ariel Drehobl, Lauren Ross, and Roxanna Ayala. How high are household energy burdens? Technical Report, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, 2020. URL: https://www.aceee.org/research-report/u2006 (visited on 2021-10-15).

[Gro21]

DataCite Metadata Working Group. Datacite metadata schema documentation for the publication and citation of research data and other research outputs. Technical Report, DataCite e.V., 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.14454/3w3z-sa82 (visited on 2021-10-15), doi:10.14454/3w3z-sa82.

[Hir20]

Lion Hirth. Open data for electricity modeling: legal aspects. Energy Strategy Reviews, 27:100433, 2020. URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2019.100433, doi:10.1016/j.esr.2019.100433.

[IC19]

Ihab F. Ilyas and Xu Chu. Data Cleaning. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2019. ISBN 9781450371520. URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/3310205, doi:10.1145/3310205.

[LOBoyle18a]

Ron Lehr and Mike O'Boyle. Debt for equity utility refinance. Technical Report, Energy Innovation, 2018. URL: https://energyinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Debt-for-Equity-Issue-Brief_12.3.18.pdf (visited on 2021-10-15).

[LOBoyle18b]

Ron Lehr and Mike O'Boyle. Depreciation and early plant retirements. Technical Report, Energy Innovation, 2018. URL: https://energyinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Depreciation-and-Early-Plant-Retirements-Brief_12.3.2018.pdf (visited on 2021-10-15).

[LOBoyle18c]

Ron Lehr and Mike O'Boyle. Steel for fuel: opportunities for investors and customers. Technical Report, Energy Innovation, 2018. URL: https://energyinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Steel-for-Fuel-Brief_12.3.18.pdf (visited on 2021-10-15).

[OBoyleL20]

Mike O'Boyle and Ron Lehr. Comparing 2019 securitization legislation in colorado, montana, and new mexico. Report, Energy Innovation, 2020. URL: https://energyinnovation.org/publication/comparing-2019-securitization-legislation-in-colorado-montana-and-new-mexico/ (visited on 2021-10-12).

[oC21]

Public Service Company of Colorado. 2021 clean energy plan. Electronic filing 21A-0141E, 2021. URL: https://www.xcelenergy.com/company/rates_and_regulations/resource_plans/clean_energy_plan (visited on 2021-10-15).

[RBB+19]

Michael Rossol, Gregory Brinkman, Grant Buster, Paul Denholm, Joshua Novacheck, and Gord Stephen. An analysis of thermal plant flexibility using a national generator performance database. Environmental Science & Technology, 53(22):13486–13494, 2019. PMID: 31644271. URL: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b04522, arXiv:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b04522, doi:10.1021/acs.est.9b04522.

[SKH+21]

Nithya Sambasivan, Shivani Kapania, Hannah Highfill, Diana Akrong, Praveen Paritosh, and Lora M Aroyo. “Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work”: data cascades in high-stakes AI. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA, 2021. Association for Computing Machinery. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445518, doi:10.1145/3411764.3445518.

[ST16]

Thomas F. Stacey and George S. Taylor. The levelized cost of electricity from existing generation resources. Technical Report, Institute for Energy Research, July 2016. URL: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/IER_LCOE_2016-2.pdf (visited on 2021-10-15).

[ST19]

Thomas F. Stacey and George S. Taylor. The levelized cost of electricity from existing generation resources. Technical Report, Institute for Energy Research, June 2019. URL: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IER_LCOE2019Final-.pdf (visited on 2021-10-15).

[Sto20]

Leah Cardmore Stokes. Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States. Studies in Postwar American Political Development Series. Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN 9780190074258. URL: https://books.google.com/books?id=uLTRDwAAQBAJ.

[VPF18]

Uday Varadarajan, David Posner, and Jeremy Fisher. Harnessing financial tools to transform the electric sector. Technical Report, Sierra Club, 2018. URL: https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/sierra-club-harnessing-financial-tools-electric-sector.pdf (visited on 2021-10-15).

[vM06]

Alexandra von Meier. Electric Power Systems: A Conceptual Introduction. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2006. ISBN 9780470036426. URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/0470036427, arXiv:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/0470036427, doi:10.1002/0470036427.