Appraising the Economics of Smart Meters: Costs and Benefits

ISBN-13: 9781032173160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 188 str.

Jacopo Torriti

Opis

This book is one of the first to present comprehensive evidence on the impacts, cost-benefits and risks associated with smart metering. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy policy and demand and smart metering infrastructure.

Spis treści

1. Are Smart Meters Worth the Cost? 2. The Economics of Smart Meters 3. Cost–Benefit Analyses of Smart Meters in European Countries 4. Cost–Benefit Analysis of Smart Meters in Romania 5. Cost–Benefit Analysis for Energy Policies 6. Meta-Analysis of Smart-Metering Trials and Conservation Effects 7. Beyond Economics and System Needs: Theoretical Approaches to Understand Smart Meters Energy Demand 8. A Smart Future? Appendix: Policy Options in Regulatory Impact Assessments on Smart Meter Roll-outs

 

O autorze

Jacopo Torriti is a Professor of Energy Economics and Policy in the School of the Built Environment, University of Reading, UK. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) and 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 books Peak Energy Demand and Demand Side Response (Routledge, 2015) and Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector (Routledge, 2019). 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 Universita di Milano.