The CREDS Flexibility Team is recruiting a full time Senior Research Associate for a 2 year project on energy and transport demand management; time dependence, and institutional flexibility. The research…Read More >
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Jacopo Torriti will be speaking at the Solar & Storage Live event on 4 December 2020
Jacopo is speaking at the Solar & Storage Live event on 4 December. He will Chair the panel ‘Addressing barriers to unlock domestic flexibility’. To book your free ticket, please…Read More >
Flexibility Reading Room on Seasonality
The Flexibility Reading Room was held on the 1st October 2020 and did not actually read anything on seasonality (partly because we could not find anything suitable. If anyone out…Read More >
Energy Networks Association – Flexibility Consultation 2020
In this response, CREDS outlines new opportunities in terms of non-DSO flexibility services, including the implications of introducing ‘core capacity’ and interfaces that allow non-DSO (distribution system operators) flexibility markets…Read More >
Flexibility Reading Room on Conceptualising Flexibility
On Tuesday 28th July 2020 the Flexibility Theme held the first of a series of ‘Reading Room’ seminars starting with the very idea of ‘flexibility’ itself. Future topics are ‘seasonality’…Read More >
Energy during UK lockdown and the best time to bake bread
Energy during UK lockdown: – longest coal-free run – weekend levels of energy demand during weekdays – significantly cleaner electricity during peak times Read the story on the Conversation here:…Read More >
Bursting the bubble?
Sarah Royston reviews Jacopo Torriti’s webinar on Demand Side Flexibility: Beyond price and technology, 02 June 2020. Jacopo Torriti’s webinar began with an intriguing graphic, which represents the amount of…Read More >
Lockdown and electricity demand in the UK: Flexing demand to when renewables are on by Jacopo Torriti
The Covid-19 lockdown presented the UK energy system with a new set of challenges, emphasised the importance of renewables and taught some lessons around flexible tariffs and negative prices. Graph…Read More >
Demand Side Flexibility: Beyond price and technology – CREDS Webinar by Jacopo Torriti
Professor Jacopo Torriti will present research carried out by the CREDS Flexibility theme, including historical progressions in peak demand, core power demand (core capacity) estimates from different smart metering datasets,…Read More >
Jacopo’s new book: Appraising the Economics of Smart Meters
This book focuses on the economics of smart meters and is one of the first to present comprehensive evidence on the impacts, cost-benefits and risks associated with smart metering. Throughout…Read More >
