Dr Sarah J Darby
Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Leader, Lower Carbon Futures group at the Environmental Change Institute
About
Dr Darby’s studies the future of electricity systems and prospects for 'intelligible energy' services, such as smart homes and smart meters, that are readily understood and controlled by consumers.
Expertise
- Energy awareness and energy-related behaviour
- Gas and electricity metering and billing; energy displays
- Energy use in buildings
- Energy advice programmes
- Energy systems in transition
Selected publications
- Communicating ‘smartness’: smart meter installers in UK homes (2015)
- Smart Metering Early Learning Project: synthesis report for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (2015)
- The Meanings Of Practices For Energy Consumption – A Comparison Of Homes And Workplaces (2014)