Theme Lead
University of Reading
Jacopo is a Professor of Energy Economics and Policy in the School of the Built Environment, University of Reading. He is an economist with experience in the costs, benefits and risks of energy and environmental policy. His areas of expertise consist of flexibility in electricity demand, Demand Side Response and Time of Use tariffs.
He is Principal Investigator of projects funded by EPSRC on Residential Electricity Demand: Peaks, Sequences of Activities and Markov chains (REDPEAK) and Distributional Effects of Dynamic Pricing for Responsive Electricity Demand (DEEPRED). He has authored the book Peak Energy Demand and Demand Side Response (Routledge, 2015). He is a member of Ofgem Academic Advisory Panel and Defra Economic Advisory Panel. Before joining the University of Reading, Jacopo worked at the London School of Economics, the University of Surrey and the European University Institute. He obtained a PhD from King’s College London, a Master from King’s College London and a Laurea in Economics from Università di Milano.
Flexibility
- Measuring flexibility in the timing of electricity demand
- Conceptualising flexibility
- Price & time elasticity
Publications
- The price is not right! Energy demand, Time of Use tariffs, values and social practices
- I’m coming home (to charge): The relation between commuting practices and peak energy demand in the United Kingdom
- Development of a profile-based electricity demand response estimation method: An application based on UK hotel chillers
- Distributional effects of Time of Use tariffs based on electricity demand and time use
- Structural analysis of final energy demand
- Using neural networks to model long-term dependencies in occupancy behaviour
- Winners and losers of policy reform on electricity tariffs
- Household electricity demand, the intrinsic flexibility index and UK wholesale electricity market prices
- BEIS consultation: Energy-related products
- Energy Networks Association – Flexibility Consultation 2020
- It’s only a matter of time: Flexibility, activities and time of use tariffs in the United Kingdom
- Temporal aggregation: Time use methodologies applied to residential electricity demand
- Making demand side response happen: A review of barriers in commercial and public organisations
- Appraising the economics of smart meters: costs and benefits
- Flexible and responsive energy retail markets: putting consumers at the centre of a smart, low carbon energy system
- Shifting the focus: 5 Electricity: making demand more flexible
- Hot weather and residential hourly electricity demand in Italy
- Consumer network access, core capacity
- Exploring socioeconomic and temporal characteristics of British and German residential energy demand
- A comparative analysis of building energy estimation methods in the context of demand response
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