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 >
News and Events
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 >
Funding success for European Marie Curie ITN project on affordable housing
RE-DWELL involves Professor Flora Samuel, Professor of Architecture in the Built Environment at Reading as a Co-Investigator. The project will equip a new generation of researchers with transdisciplinary skills to…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 >
Dr Izabela Wieczorek’s contribution has been shortlisted for the prestigious FAD Awards
The book José Miguel de Prada Poole. La arquitectura perecedera de las pompas de jabón (José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles) (Recolectores Urbanos, 2019)…Read More >
PolGRG Book Prize – Dr Penelope Plaza received Special Commendation for Culture as Renewable Oil
Dr Penelope Plaza’s book, Culture as Renewable Oil: How Territory, Bureaucratic Power and Culture Coalesce in the Venezuelan Petrostate, received a Special Commendation from the judging panel of the Political…Read More >
Thames Valley AIHUB Event – Urban Planning and Transport Thames Valley AI HUB
Wednesday 13th May 2020 18:00 – 20:00 Join our event to hear speakers address some of our big challenges in Urban Planning and Transport, from using computers as part of…Read More >
New Thinking: Science Fiction BBC3 Podcast
Hetta Howes discusses how science fiction extends beyond literature with Caroline Edwards and Amy Butt It’s sometimes defined as ‘the literature of cognitive estrangement’. In other words, it’s a genre…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 >
