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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
- Flexibility: past, present, future
- Conceptualising flexibility
- Flexibility of demand-side technologies
- Price & time elasticity
- Time dependence & institutional flexibility
Publications
- Using neural networks to model long-term dependencies in occupancy behaviour
- 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
- Making demand side response happen: A review of barriers in commercial and public organisations
- Flexible and responsive energy retail markets: putting consumers at the centre of a smart, low carbon energy system
- Hot weather and residential hourly electricity demand in Italy
- Exploring socioeconomic and temporal characteristics of British and German residential energy demand
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