Staff Profile:Dr Jacopo Torriti

Name:

Dr Jacopo Torriti

Job Title:

Lecturer in Energy Economics and Policy

Responsibilities:

• External Responsibilities: 
• Member of the British Institute of Energy Economics
• Member of the Society for Risk Analysis
• Visiting Research Fellow, University of Surrey
• Defra Economic Advisory Panel

Areas of Interest:

Jacopo Torriti’s research work focuses on economic tools for energy policies, including cost-benefit analysis, impact assessment and the standard cost model. In recent years, his interests in risk analysis and economic appraisals have been integrated with work in specific areas of energy demand in the built environment, such as economic incentives for demand side participation; the impacts of discrete demand side control applications in office buildings; occupancy curves in European residential buildings; willingness to pay for demand response programs; macroeconomic modeling for the liberalisation of EU energy markets; and penalties and rewards for the quality of energy supply in Italy.

Previous Employment:
Before joining the University of Reading in 2011, Jacopo Torriti held teaching and research positions at the London School of Economics, the University of Surrey, the European University Institute, the UK Government Sustainable Development Commission and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Research Awards:
2010-2013 Co-Investigator , EPSRC project ‘Reshaping Energy Demand of Users by Communication Technology and Economic Incentives’, Project value for University of Surrey: £1,241,160
2012-2013 Principal Investigator, TSB project ‘Assessing the Benefits of Demand Side Response Participation in a Capacity Market’, Total project value: £65,994 (Project value for University of Reading: £46,873)

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

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Number of items: 33.

2013

• Barton, J., Huang, S., Infield, D., Leach, M., Ogunkunle, D., Torriti, J. and Thomson, M. (2013) The evolution of electricity demand and the role for demand side participation, in buildings and transport. Energy Policy, 52. pp. 85-102. ISSN 0301-4215 doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.08.040
• Bradley, P., Leach, M. and Torriti, J. (2013) A review of the costs and benefits of demand response for electricity in the UK. Energy Policy, 312-327. pp. 312-327. ISSN 0301-4215 doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.09.039
• Alemanno, A., den Butter, F., Nijsen, A. and Torriti, J., eds. (2013) Better business regulation in a risk society. Springer, New York, pp328. ISBN 9781461444053 doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4406-0
• O’Connor, J. and Torriti, J. (2013) Trust, the pharmaceutical industry and regulators. In: Alemanno, A., den Butter, F., Nijsen, A. and Torriti, J. (eds.) Better Business Regulation in a Risk Society. Springer, New York, pp. 157-172. ISBN 9781461444053 doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4406-0_10

2012

• Torriti, J. and Leach, M. (2012) Making the least active pay: a simulation of rewards and penalties under Demand Side Participation programs. International journal of green energy, 9 (7). pp. 584-596. ISSN 1543-5083 doi: 10.1080/15435075.2011.625582
• Hanna, R., Leach , M. and Torriti, J. (2012) The impact of installer business models on the uptake of residential microgeneration in the UK: Evidence from a nation-wide survey. In: BIEE Conference: European Energy in a Challenging World: the impact of emerging markets, 19-20 Sept 2012, Oxford.
• Torriti, J. (2012) Price-based demand side management: Assessing the impacts of time-of-use tariffs on residential electricity demand and peak shifting in Northern Italy. Energy, 44 (1). pp. 576-583. ISSN 0360-5442 doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2012.05.043
• Torriti, J. (2012) Multiple-project discount rates for cost-benefit analysis in construction projects: A formal risk model for microgeneration renewable energy technologies. Construction Management and Economics, 30 (9). pp. 739-747. ISSN 0144-6193 doi: 10.1080/01446193.2012.692165
• Torriti, J. (2012) ‘Nudging’ energy users: regulatory measures to address the risk of aggregate peak demand in European electricity markets. In: Regulation & Governance 2012, 27-30 June 2012, Exeter.
• Torriti, J. (2012) Demand side management for the European Supergrid: occupancy variances of European single-person households. Energy Policy, 44. pp. 199-206. ISSN 0301-4215 doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.01.039
• Hong, J., Johnstone, C., Torriti, J. and Leach, M. (2012) Discrete demand side control performance under dynamic building simulation: a heat pump application. Renewable Energy, 39 (1). pp. 85-95. ISSN 0960-1481 doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.07.042
• McKerracher, C. and Torriti, J. (2012) Energy consumption feedback in perspective: integrating Australian data to meta-analyses on in home displays. Energy Efficiency. ISSN 1570-646X doi: 10.1007/s12053-012-9169-3
• Torriti, J. (2012) Standard cost model: three different paths and their common problems. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 8 (1). pp. 90-108. ISSN 1815-347X
• Torriti, J. and Lofstedt, R. (2012) The first five years of the EU Impact Assessment system: a risk economics perspective on gaps between rationale and practice. Journal of Risk Research, 15 (2). pp. 169-186. ISSN 1466-4461 doi: 10.1080/13669877.2011.634512
• Mirumachi, N. and Torriti, J. (2012) The use of public participation and economic appraisal for public involvement in large-scale hydropower projects: Case study of the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project. Energy Policy, 47. pp. 125-132. ISSN 0301-4215 doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.04.034

2011

• Torriti, J. (2011) The elasticity of demand is about occupancy, not prices: building European demand curves based on occupancy elasticity. In: UKERC 1st Conference of Energy and People, 20-21 Sept 2011, Oxford.
• Torriti, J., Leach, M. and Devine-Wright, P. (2011) Demand side participation: price constraints, technical limits and behavioural risks. In: Jamasb, T. and Pollitt, M. (eds.) The Future of Electricity Demand: Customers, Citizens and Loads. Department of Applied Economics Occasional Papers (69). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 88-105. ISBN 9781107008502
• Torriti, J. (2011) The unsustainable rationality of Impact Assessment. European Journal of Law and Economics, 31 (3). pp. 307-320. ISSN 0929-1261 doi: 10.1007/s10657-010-9202-y

2010

• Torriti, J. and Leach , M. (2010) Making the least active pay: rewards and penalties for Demand Side Participation programs. In: BIEE Conference: Energy in a Low Carbon Economy, 22-23 Sept 2010, Oxford.
• Torriti, J., Hassan, M. G. and Leach, M. (2010) Demand response experience in Europe: policies, programmes and implementation. Energy, 35 (4). pp. 1575-1583. ISSN 0360-5442 doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2009.05.021
• Speirs, J., Gross, R., Deshmukh, S., Heptonstall, P., Munuera, L., Leach, M. and Torriti, J. (2010) Building a roadmap for heat 2050 scenarios and heat delivery in the UK. Report. CHPA, London.
• Torriti, J. (2010) Impact Assessment and the liberalisation of the EU energy markets: evidence based policy-making or policy based evidence-making? Journal of Common Market Studies, 48 (4). pp. 1065-1081. ISSN 1468-5965 doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2010.02089.x
• Torriti, J. and Lofstedt, R. (2010) The role of Regulatory Impact Assessment in fighting climate change and the economic downturn: a EU-US perspective. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 1 (3). pp. 251-257. ISSN 1867-299X

2009

• Torriti, J. and Löfstedt, R. (2009) EU-U.S.: to compete or to cooperate? This is an Impact Assessment question. In: Swinnen, J., Vogel, D., Marx, A., Riss, H. and Wouters, J. (eds.) Handling Global Challenges. Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies , Leuven, pp. 38-55.
• Torriti, J., Fumagalli, E. and Lo Schiavo, L. (2009) L’AIR nella pratica di una Autorità indipendente: l’esperienza dell’Autorità per l’energia elettrica e il gas di applicazione dell’AIR alla regolazione della qualità del servizio. Mercato Concorrenza Regole, 10 (2). pp. 285-321. ISSN 1590-5128

2008

• Torriti, J. (2008) Impact Assessments and emerging technologies: from precaution to "Smart Regulation"? In: Einsiedel, E. (ed.) Emerging Technologies: from Hindsight to Foresight. University of British Columbia Press, pp. 289-307. ISBN 9780774815482
• Torriti, J. (2008) Does the Impact Assessment on the ‘Third Package’ provide the correct economic forecast for the liberalisation of the EU energy markets? EUI RSCAS. 2008/14. Working Paper. Florence School of Regulation, Florence. ISBN 1028-3625
• Torriti, J. (2008) Italy. In: Frick, F. and Ernst, T. (eds.) International Regulatory Reform Report 2008. Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh, pp. 46-60. ISBN 9783867930031
• Torriti, J. (2008) The Netherlands. In: Frick, F. and Ernst, T. (eds.) International Regulatory Reform Monitor 2008. Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh, pp. 61-86. ISBN 9783867930031
• Torriti, J. (2008) United Kingdom. In: Frick, F. and Ernst, T. (eds.) International Regulatory Reform Monitor 2008. Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh, pp. 87-110. ISBN 9783867930031
• Torriti, J. (2008) A review of the European Commission’s Impact Assessment for the Third Legislative Package on Energy Markets Liberalisation. In: EEM 2008: 5th International Conference on European Electricity Market, 28-30 May 2008, Lisbon, Portugal.

2007

• Torriti, J. (2007) Impact Assessment in the EU: a tool for better regulation, less regulation or less bad regulation? Journal of Risk Research, 10 (2). pp. 239-276. ISSN 1466-4461 doi: 10.1080/13669870701217847
• Torriti, J. (2007) The Standard Cost Model: when better regulation fights against red-tape. In: Weatherill, S. (ed.) Better Regulation. Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law (6). Hart, Oxford, pp. 83-106. ISBN 9781841137155

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Qualifications:

PhD (Kings College London), MA (Kings College London), BSc Econ (Milan)