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Low-Carbon Planning for Delaware’s Solar Energy Future

Job Taminiau, John Byrne, Daniel Cristinzio, Dharni Grover, Daniel Sanchez Carretero. 2022. Research report by the Foundation for Renewable Energy and Environment (FREE) and the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP), University of Delaware.

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Inferential- and measurement-based methods to estimate rooftop “solar city” potential in megacity Seoul, South Korea

2022. Job Taminiau, John Byrne, Jongkyu Kim, Min-Hwi Kim, Jeongseok Seo. Inferential- and measurement-based methods to estimate rooftop “solar city” potential in megacity Seoul, South Korea. WIREs Energy and Environment, 2022;e438. https://doi.org/10.1002/wene.438

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Community Solar Governance: Institutional Design and Collective Choice Options: Implications for U.S. Markets

2021. John Byrne, Job Taminiau, Joseph Nyangon, Thomas Benson, Daniel Cristinzio, and Robert Ddamulira. Community Solar Governance: Institutional Design and Collective Choice Options: Implications for U.S. Markets. Research report by the Foundation for Renewable Energy and Environment and the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3914111

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Infrastructure-scale sustainable energy planning in the cityscape: Transforming urban energy metabolism in East Asia

2021. Job Taminiau, John Byrne, Jongkyu Kim, Min-Whi Kim, and Jeongseok Seo. Infrastructure-scale sustainable energy planning in the cityscape: Transforming urban energy metabolism in East Asia. WIRE Energy and Environment, https://doi.org/10.1002/wene.397

 

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City-scale urban sustainability: Spatiotemporal mapping of distributed solar power for New York City

2020. Job Taminiau and John Byrne. City-scale urban sustainability: Spatiotemporal mapping of distributed solar power for New York
City. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment. DOI: 10.1002/wene.374

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Advancing transformative sustainability: A comparative analysis of electricity service and supply innovators in the United States

2019. Job Taminiau, John P. Banks, Deborah Bleviss, and John Byrne. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Energy and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1002/wene.337

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Feasibility study of city-scale solar power plants using public buildings: Case studies of Newark and Wilmington Delaware with early investigations of bifacial solar modules and dual orientation racking as tools for city-scale solar development

2019. John Byrne, Joseph Nyangon, Steven Hegedus, Michael Chajes, Job Taminiau, Nuha Ahmed, Nick Dinardo, Pengyu Li, Jing Xu. Technical Report Prepared for the Delaware General Assembly. Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware.

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Multivariate analysis of solar city economics: impact of energy prices, policy, finance, and cost on urban photovoltaic power plant implementation

2019. John Byrne, Job Taminiau, Kyung N. Kim, Joohee Lee and Jeongseok Seo. In Advances in Energy Systems: The Large-scale Renewable Energy Integration Challenge, First Edition. Edited by Peter D. Lund, John Byrne, Reinhard Haas and Damian Flynn.

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Utilizing the urban fabric as the solar power plant of the future

2018. John Byrne and Job Taminiau. In P. Droege (Ed.), Urban energy transition (2nd ed.) (pp. 31-49). New York City: Elsevier. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102074-6.00016-4.

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Diversifying electric utility customer choice: REVing up the New York energy vision for polycentric innovation

2018. Joseph Nyangon and John Byrne. In Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Ed.), Energy Systems and Environment, IntechOpen, London, UK. DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.76023.

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Urban solar rooftop potential: Technical and economic analysis of rooftop solar generation in Wilmington and Newark Delaware

2018. John Byrne, Job Taminiau, Steven Hegedus, Michael Chajes, Soojin Shin, Nuha Ahmed, Nick Dinardo, Jing Xu. Technical Report Prepared for the Delaware General Assembly. Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware.

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Shifting to clean energy—An editorial essay

2018. Peter D. Lund and John Byrne. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Energy and Environment. DOI: 10.1002/wene.283.

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Seoul’s sustainable energy action planning: Lesson for cities

2017. John Byrne and Yun Sun-Jin. In One Less Nuclear Power Plant (OLNPP) Reframing Urban Energy Policy: Challenges and Opportunities in the City Seoul. Published by Mayor of Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul, South Korea: Seoul Metropolitan Government.

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Are solar cities feasible? A review of current research.

2017. John Byrne, Job Taminiau, Jeongseok Seo, Joohee Lee and Soojin Shin. International Journal of Urban Sciences: 1-18. Doi.org/10.1080/12265934.2017.1331750.

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Measuring urban sustainability through common indicators and peer city benchmarking: Assessing sustainability assets for performance improvement and economic and environmental progress in Delaware

2017. John Byrne, Joseph Nyangon, Hannah Deblauwe, Chris Oster, Soojin Shin, Jing Xu, Job Taminiau and Michael Chajes. Technical Report Prepared for the Delaware General Assembly. Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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Multivariate analysis of solar city economics: impact of energy prices, policy, finance, and cost on urban photovoltaic power plant implementation.

2017. John Byrne, Job Taminiau, Kyung Nam Kim, Jeongseok Seo. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment e241 doi: 10.1002/wene.241

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A solar city strategy applied to six municipalities: integrating market, finance, and policy factors for infrastructure-scale photovoltaic development in Amsterdam, London, Munich, New York, Seoul, and Tokyo

2016. John Byrne, Job Taminiau, Kyung Nam Kim, Jeongseok Seo and Joohee Lee. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment, v5: 68–88. doi: 10.1002/wene.182.

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Urban energy transformation through solar city strategies

2016. Job Taminiau, Joseph Nyangon, Jeongseok Seo, Joohee Lee, and John Byrne. Policy Brief Prepared for Foundation for Renewable Energy and Environment, New York, NY.

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A Review of the Solar City Concept and Methods to Assess Rooftop Solar Electric Potential, with an Illustrative Application to the City of Seoul

2015. John Byrne, Job Taminiau, Lado Kurdgelashvili and Kyung Nam Kim. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 41, 830–844.

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Less Energy, a Better Economy, and a Sustainable South Korea: An Energy Efficiency Scenario Analysis.

2002. Young-Doo Wang, John Byrne et al. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society. Vol 22, No. 2: 110-122.

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Economics of Building Integrated PV in China

2001. John Byrne, Aiming Zhou, and Gerard Alleng. Proceedings of the Green Buildings Workshop. Shanghai, China, July
2001. Environmental Market Solutions and Pacific Energy Research center, Tongji University.

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An International Comparison of the Economics of Building Integrated PV in different Resource, Pricing and Policy Environments: The Cases of the U.S., Japan and South Korea

2000. John Byrne, Lawrence Agbemabiese, et al. Proceedings of the American Solar Energy Solar 2000 Conference, Madison, Wisconsin. Pp. 81-85.

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Commercializing Photovoltaics: The Importance of Capturing Distributed Benefits.

1998. S. Letendre, C. Weinberg, J. Byrne and Y-D. Wang. Proceedings of the American Solar Energy Society Solar 98 Conference, Albuquerque, NM (June 15-17):231-237.

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Photovoltaics as an Energy Services Technology: A Case Study of PV sited at the Union of Concerned Scientists Headquarters

1998. J. Byrne, S. Letendre, and D. Aitken.Proceedings of the American Solar Energy Society Solar 98 Conference, Albuquerque,NM (June 15-17):131-136.

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Commercial Building Integrated Photovoltaics: Market and Policy Implications.

1997. John Byrne, Steven Letendre, et al. Proceedings of the 26th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Anaheim, CA. Pp. 1301-1304.

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Building Load Analysis of Dispatchable Peak-Shaving Photovoltaic Systems: A Regional Analysis of Technical and Economic Potential.

1997. J. Byrne, S. Letendre, Y-D. Wang, R. Nigro and W. Ferguson. Proceedings of the of the American Solar Energy Society Solar 97 Conference, Washington, D.C. (April 25-30): 147-152.

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Evaluating the economics of photovoltaics in a demand-side management role.

1996.J. Byrne, S. Letendre, C. Govindarajalu and YD. Wang. Energy Policy. Vol. 24, No. 2: 177-185.

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Photovoltaic Technology as a Dispatchable, Peak-Shaving Option.

1995. John Byrne, Ralph Nigro and Young-Doo Wang. Public Utilities Fortnightly (Sept. 1).

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Photovoltaics as a Demand-Side Management Technology: An Analysis of Peak-Shaving and Direct Load Control Options.

1994. John Byrne, Young-Doo Wang and Steven Hegedus. Progress in Photovoltaics, Vol. 2: 235-48.

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Deployment of a Dispatchable Photovoltaic System: Technical and Economic Results

1994. J. Byrne, Y-D. Wang, S. Letendre and C. Govindarajalu. Proceedings of the First World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, IEEE, December 5-9, 1994, Hawaii, USA.

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Photovoltaics for Demand-Side Management.

1994. John Byrne and Constantine Hadjilambrinos. Progress in Solar Energy Technologies and Applications: An
Authoritative Review. Boulder CO: American Solar Energy Society. Pp. 22-23.

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The Role of PV in Demand-side Management: Policy and Industry Challenges

1992. J. Byrne, C. Hadjilambrinos and Y-D. Wang. Proceedings of the 11th Photovoltaic Advanced Research and Development Project Review Meeting

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The City as Commodity: the Decline of Urban Vision

1989. J. Byrne, D. Yanich, W. Benfer, J-D. Kim, C. Martinez and C. McDonnell. RaumPlanung Vol. 46/47: 174-178.

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Letter from America: Urban Policy without the Urban

1987. J. Byrne and C. Martinez.
Regional Studies Association. Newsletter No. 148: 4-7.

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Energy and Cities

1985 John Byrne and Daniel Rich, eds. New Brunswick , NJ and London : Transaction Publishers.

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The Post-Industrial Imperative: Energy, Cities and the Featureless Plain.

1985. J. Byrne, C. Martinez and D. Rich. In J. Byrne and D. Rich, eds. Energy and Cities. New Brunswick ,
NJ and London : Transaction Publishers. Pp. 101-141.

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The Solar Energy Transition: Implementation and Policy Implications.

1983. D. Rich, J. Veigel, A. Barnett and J. Byrne, eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

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The Solar Energy Transition as a Problem of Political Economy

1983. John Byrne and Daniel Rich. In Rich, Veigel, Barnett and Byrne, eds. The Solar Energy Transition:Implementation and Policy Implications. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Pp. 163-186.

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ORCID iD iconJohn Byrne is Director and Distinguished Professor of Energy and Climate Policy, University of Delaware. He is also President of the Foundation for Renewable Energy & Environment (FREE). The Foundation was created in 2011 with a mission of promoting a better future based on energy, water and materials conservation, renewable energy use, environmental resilience, and sustainable livelihoods.

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