Project Researcher
UCL Energy Institute
Michael Fell is a research associate at UCL Energy Institute. His current project (under the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions) considers implications of distributed ledger-enabled retail markets for energy policy objectives. More generally, his research focuses on social aspects of energy demand flexibility, and the use of systematic review methods in energy demand research.
His previous work has explored consumer demand for domestic demand-side response product offerings such as time of use electricity tariffs. Other research interests include energy feedback and energy education. He was seconded to BEIS during 2017-18, and in 2013 undertook a POST/EPSRC Fellowship in the House of Commons Library (briefing MPs on subjects in science and the environment). Prior to joining UCL he was the energy commissioning editor at Earthscan (a leading publisher of books and journals in sustainability). He is currently the UCL Energy Institute ethics coordinator.
Policy & Governance
Publications
- Realist approaches in energy research to support faster and fairer climate action
- Pricing decisions in peer-to-peer and prosumer-centred electricity markets: Experimental analysis in Germany and the United Kingdom
- Peer-to-peer electricity trading and the sharing economy: social, markets and regulatory perspectives
- Social and economic value in emerging decentralized energy business models: A critical review
- Demand response beyond the numbers: A critical reappraisal of flexibility in two United Kingdom field trials
- Demand response: success isn’t just about numbers
- Anticipating distributional impacts of peer-to-peer energy trading: Inference from a realist review of evidence on Airbnb
- The history of heat-as-a-service for promoting domestic demand-side flexibility: lessons from the case of budget warmth
- Improving energy research practices: guidance for transparency, reproducibility and quality
- Watts the deal?
- House of Commons BEIS Select Committee inquiry – decarbonising heat in homes
- Two energy suppliers are better than one: survey experiments on consumer engagement with local energy in GB
- Validity of energy social research during and after COVID-19: challenges, considerations, and responses
- Make fun of your research
- TReQ Tools: how to improve transparency, reproducibility and quality in energy research
- Just flexibility?
- Consumer demand for blockchain-enabled peer-to-peer electricity trading in the United Kingdom: An online survey experiment
- Flexibility capital and flexibility justice in smart energy systems
- Social impacts of peer-to-peer energy trading: a rapid realist review protocol
- Capturing the distributional impacts of long-term low-carbon transitions
- France and UK are well positioned to learn from each other on self-consumption and peer-to-peer energy trading
- Domestic demand-side response with heat pumps: controls and tariffs
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