Research

CEDRI has three key research areas that are being integrated to better understand demand reduction in Indian households: LV grid performance, building demand, and householder behaviour. Key publications and outputs emanating from CEDRI are listed below:

Journal publications

  1. D.P. Jenkins, S.Semple, S.Patidar and P.McCallum Changing the approach to energy compliance in residential buildings – re-imagining EPCs, Energy and Buildings, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111239
  2. O. Osunmuyiwa, A.D. Peacock, S.R. Payne, V. Ilavarasan and D.P. Jenkins, Divergent imaginaries? Co-producing practitioner and householder perspective to cooling demand response in India, Energy Policy, 2021
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112222
  3. S. Norbu, B. Couraud, V. Robu, M. Andoni, D. Flynn, Modelling the redistribution of benefits from joint investments in community energy projects, Applied Energy, Volume 287, 1 April 2021, 116575
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116575
  4. I. Antonopoulos, V. Robu, B. Couraud, D. Kirli, S. Norbu, A. Kiprakis, D. Flynn, S. Elizondo-Gonzalez, S. Wattam, Artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches to energy demand-side response: A systematic review, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 130, September 2020, 109899
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2020.109899
  5. O. Osunmuyiwa, S.R. Payne, V. Ilavarasan, A.D. Peacock and D.P. Jenkins, I cannot live without air conditioning! The role of identity, values and situational factors on cooling consumption patterns in India, Energy Research & Social Science 69, 2020
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101634 
  6. K.B. Debnath, D.P. Jenkins, S. Patidar and A.D. Peacock Understanding residential occupant cooling behaviour through electricity consumption in warm-humid climate. Buildings, MDPI, 2020
    https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings10040078
  7. D.P. Jenkins, S. Patidar, P. McCallum, and K.B. Debnath, Modelling community electricity demand for UK and India, Sustainable Cities and Society (Available Online), 2020
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102054 
  8. C. Etukudor, B. Couraud, V. Robu, W-G Früh, D. Flynn, C. Okereke, Automated Negotiation for Peer-to-Peer Electricity Trading in Local Energy Markets, Energies – MDPI, 2020
    https://doi.org/10.3390/en13040920
  9. M. A. Maniar and A. R. Abhyankar, Two-Stage Load Profiling of HV Feeders of a Distribution System, IEEE Systems Journal, Vol 13, No. 3, Sept 2019, pp. 3102-3110.
    https://doi.org/10.1109/JSYST.2019.2896172
  10. V. Robu, D. Flynn, M. Andoni and M. Mokhtar, Consider ethical and social challenges in smart grid research, Nature Machine Intelligence, 2019
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-019-0120-6

Peer-reviewed conference publications

  1. K.B. Debnath and D.P. Jenkins (2020) Effect of building fabric on the electricity demand for space cooling for attaining thermal comfort in a South Indian community building; World Renewable Energy Congress 2020; 26 – 30 July 2021.
  2. S. Patidar, D.P. Jenkins, A.D. Peacock A, K.B. Debnath, P. McCallum (2020) System of statistical approaches for community energy modelling; 2nd IBPSA-Scotland uSIM conference 2020 (Virtual), Edinburgh, UK. 12 November 2020.
  3. O. Osunmuyiwa, S.R. Payne, V. Ilavarasan and D.P. Jenkins, Can environmental self-identity diverge from individual values? Behavioural insights from residential Air Conditioning use in India, IAPS 2020, Quebec, Canada
  4. S.R. Payne, O. Osunmuyiwa, V. Ilavarasan and D.P. Jenkins, Are ‘Dragons of Inaction’ at work in communities in India? IAPS 2020, Quebec, Canada
  5. K.B. Debnath, D.P. Jenkins Simulation-based assessment of residential cooling energy demand reduction strategies in a south Indian community; Building Simulation and Optimization (BSO) 2020
  6. B. Couraud, P. Kumar, V. Robu, D.P. Jenkins, S. Norbu, D. Flynn and A.R. Abhyankar, Assessment of Decentralized Reactive Power Control Strategies for Low Voltage PV Inverter, 8th International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS) 2019, 20-22 December, Rajasthan, India
  7. K.B. Debnath, D.P. Jenkins, Understanding residential occupant cooling behavior through electricity consumption in India; Builder ’19 – International Conference on Building Energy Demand Reduction in Global South, New Delhi, India. 13-14 December 2019. Link
  8. T.K. Jayasree, B.S. Jinshah, D.R. Srinivas Tadepalli, Evaluation of ventilation efficiency in a naturally ventilated kitchen equipped with an insect-proof screen on the windows with computational fluid dynamics, Builder ’19 – International Conference on Building Energy Demand Reduction in Global South, New Delhi, India. 13-14 December 2019
  9. Sornambiga Shanmugam, Lakshmi Visakha, D.R. Srinivas Tadepalli, Detailed Climate and Comfort Analysis for two cities in the warm humid climate zone of Tamil Nadu, India, Builder ’19 – International Conference on Building Energy Demand Reduction in Global South, New Delhi, India. 13-14 December 2019
  10. Nidhi, Lakshmi Visakha, D.R. Srinivas Tadepalli, Assessing preference and performance of daylight in residential apartments, Builder ’19 – International Conference on Building Energy Demand Reduction in Global South, New Delhi, India. 13-14 December 2019
  11. D.P. Jenkins, S. Patidar, P. McCallum, A. Peacock, and K.B. Debnath, Comparing community energy assessment approaches for UK and India, IBPSA Building Simulation 2019, 2-4 Sept, Rome, Italy
    https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2019.210249
  12. S. Patidar, D.P. Jenkins, A. Peacock and P. Mccallum, Time-series Decomposition Approach For Simulating Electricity Demand Profile, IBPSA Building Simulation 2019, 2-4 Sept, Rome, Italy
    https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2019.210541
  13. C. Etukudor, V. Robu, B. Couraud, G. Kocher, W-G Früh, D. Flynn, C. Okereke, Automated Negotiation for Peer-to-Peer Trading of Renewable Energy in Off-Grid Communities, 2019 IEEE Power Engineering Society Conference and Exposition in Africa, PowerAfrica, IEEE, 20-23 Aug 2019, Abuja, Nigeria
  14. S. Patidar, D.P. Jenkins and A.D. Peacock, Stochastic modelling framework for synthetic time series simulation, RSS 2018 International Conference, 2-6 Sept 2018, Cardiff, UK

Book chapter

  1. K.B. Debnath, D.P. Jenkins (2021) Effect of building fabric on the electricity demand for space cooling for attaining thermal comfort in a South Indian community building; Sustainable Energy Development and Innovation. Editor: Professor Ali Sayigh. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland. (In-press)