David Shipworth

Co-Investigator

UCL Energy Institute

David Shipworth is Professor of Energy and the Built Environment at the UCL Energy Institute. He is Vice-chair for Strategy and Task Development in the International Energy Agency’s Demand Side Management Technology Collaboration Programme, and is also the UK Government’s Industry and Academic representative to this TCP.

He researches systems for provision of demand flexibility within the energy system, in particular demand side response and peer-to-peer energy trading, and roles of consumers and buildings in delivering these. He has a particular interest in the design and evaluation of field trials for providing evidence to government and business, as well as testing the consumer acceptability of, and response to, different flexibility offerings such as Time of Use Tariffs and Home Energy Management Systems.

He is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College and is on the Editorial Board of Nature: Scientific Data.

Policy & Governance

• Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) as a disrupter of retail markets

Publications

• The over-prediction of primary energy use intensity by EPCs in Great Britain: A direct comparison of EPC-modelled and smart metered energy use in gas-heated homes
• The associations between thermal variety and health: Implications for space heating energy use
• How should energy researchers respond to the climate emergency?
• Consumer demand for blockchain-enabled peer-to-peer electricity trading in the United Kingdom: An online survey experiment
• Observational evidence of the seasonal and demographic variation in experienced temperature from 77,743 UK Biobank participants
• Comparison of indoor temperatures of homes with recommended temperatures and effects of disability and age: an observational, cross-sectional study

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