Currently I am involved in two competitive research projects

1. Integrated Market-fit and Affordable Grid-scale Energy Storage (IMAGES)

Funding by the Research Councils UK (RCUK) Energy Programme and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), IMAGES is a consortium made up of three higher education institutions namely, the University of Warwick, the University of Nottingham and the University of Loughborough, and involves academics from the disciplines of Engineering, Business Studies, Maths, and Economics. Withing this project, to which I joined in October 2014, energy storage is view as vital to maintaining a healthy balance between supply and demand when green technologies such as wind power come online over the next few decades in the UK. In the economics team of the project, leaded by Prof. Mike Waterson from the University of Warwick, we are analysing the potential economic value of the energy storage at the grid-scale, some of our preliminary results can be fund in the working paper 2016/02.

2. Economic analysis of the impact of electricity regulation

The project aims to evaluate the economic effects of energy policy and energy regulation across the whole value chain of the electricity sector through the development of three econometric models in order to identify the impact of regulation on the retail price of electricity; on income transfers between producers and consumers; and on economic growth. I am the technical director of this project funded by the Knowledge and Innovation Community, KIC InnoEnergy, of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. We are working on it, in the coming months I will share here some of the related research outputs.