Research
Publications
I publish as Michael J. Fell. This list comes from my ORCID record. If you can't get hold of a paper, email me and I'll send you a copy.
Selected
- Energy services: A conceptual review
- Flexibility Capital and Flexibility Justice in Smart Energy Systems
- Just flexibility?
- Public acceptability of domestic demand-side response in Great Britain: The role of automation and direct load control
- Consumer demand for time of use electricity tariffs: A systematized review of the empirical evidence
- Realist approaches in energy research to support faster and fairer climate action
- Peer-to-peer electricity trading and the sharing economy: social, markets and regulatory perspectives
- Smart energy must address enshittification risks
All, newest first
2026
- Smart energy must address enshittification risks
- Conceptualising spatial demand flexibility: an introduction
- Energy equity: A rapid evidence review focused on developed economies
- Living with a Chatbot: Supporting Energy Communities with a Conversational Coordination Interface
- Keep people in the loop: co-designing personal preference agents for energy flexibility
2025
2024
- Smart prepayment customers’ experience of the Demand Flexibility Service
- Defining characteristics of peer-to-peer energy trading, transactive energy, and community self-consumption: A review of literature and expert perspectives
- Can you have your cake and eat it (later)? Decoupling power from service to support flexibility and security
- Data Synergy in times of crisis
- SolarClub: Supporting Renewable Energy Communities through an Interactive Coordination System
- Can Large Language Models help address the energy justice challenge? Some key opportunities and threats
- Consumer preferences for business models with multiple electricity suppliers: Online choice experiments in the United Kingdom
- Open science and the climate crisis
- Energy Social Surveys Replicated with Large Language Model Agents
- PolyPersona
2023
- Collective action on energy use: insights from joint action theory
- Smart local energy systems as a societal project: Developing a Theory of Change
- Strategy and Policy Statement for energy policy for Great Britain - consultation: Response from UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources and UCL Energy Institute
- A board game-based system model with humans in the loop exploring peer-to-peer energy trading decisions
- Supporting Solar Energy Coordination among Communities
- Energy justice and flexibility
2022
- Peer-to-peer electricity trading and the sharing economy: social, markets and regulatory perspectives
- Energy as a Service
- Realist approaches in energy research to support faster and fairer climate action
- Future energy retail markets: stakeholder views on multiple electricity supplier models in the UK
- Pricing decisions in peer-to-peer and prosumer-centred electricity markets: Experimental analysis in Germany and the United Kingdom
- pump:chic – on getting comfortable with heat pumps
- Urban Energy Club - Final report
- Defining Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading, Community Self-Consumption and Transactive Energy Models: Concept Definition Paper
2021
- Disrupting markets with peer-to-peer energy trading
- New energy downstream. Emerging business models and innovative best practices: an economic, institutional, and behavioral focus
- Social and economic value in emerging decentralized energy business models: A critical review
- Anticipating distributional impacts of peer-to-peer energy trading: Inference from a realist review of evidence on Airbnb
- Demand response beyond the numbers: A critical reappraisal of flexibility in two United Kingdom field trials
- Smart Local Energy Systems (SLES): A framework for exploring transition, context, and impacts
- Customer Privacy Concerns as a Barrier to Sharing Data about Energy Use in Smart Local Energy Systems: A Rapid Realist Review
- The History of Heat-as-a-Service for Promoting Domestic Demand-Side Flexibility: Lessons from the case of Budget Warmth
- Improving energy research practices: guidance for transparency, reproducibility and quality
2020
- Two energy suppliers are better than one: Survey experiments on consumer engagement with local energy in GB
- Validity of energy social research during and after COVID-19: challenges, considerations, and responses
- Make fun of your research
- TReQ Tools: How to Improve Transparency, Reproducibility and Quality in Energy Research
2019
- Just flexibility?
- Consumer Demand for Blockchain-Enabled Peer-to-Peer Electricity Trading in the United Kingdom: An online survey experiment
- Consumer demand for blockchain-enabled peer-to-peer energy trading in the United Kingdom: An online survey experiment
- Flexibility Capital and Flexibility Justice in Smart Energy Systems
- The Economic Impacts of Open Science: A Rapid Evidence Assessment
- Customer demand for blockchain-enabled peer-to-peer energy trading in the United Kingdom
- Electric vehicle manufacturers' perceptions of the market potential for demand-side flexibility using electric vehicles in the United Kingdom
- How fair is flexibility?
- Let’s Get Real: Realist synthesis of evidence on local energy systems
- Sharing the Love: What might be the social impacts of peer-to-peer energy trading?
- Capturing the distributional impacts of long-term low-carbon transitions
2018
- Devolution and defection in energy networks (workshop introduction)
- Response to “Vulnerability and resistance in the United Kingdom's smart meter transition”
- Will peer-to-peer energy trading deliver genuine social benefits in tomorrow’s electricity systems? (workshop introduction)
- How does the structure of distributed ledger technology-enabled retail markets impact on energy policy objectives?
- Islands in the city? Place attachment and participation in local and non-local peer-to-peer energy trading (research design)
- The Radio Teleswitch: An historical perspective on the roll-out of domestic load control
- Consumer demand for time of use electricity tariffs: A systematized review of the empirical evidence
- Domestic demand-side response with heat pumps: controls and tariffs
2017
- The Value of TOU Tariffs in Great Britain: Insights for Decision-makers
- Are we heading towards a replicability crisis in energy efficiency research? A toolkit for improving the quality, transparency and replicability of energy efficiency impact evaluations
- Energising Health: A review of the health and care applications of smart meter data
- Energy services: A conceptual review
- Behaviour, Practice--Whatever? A theory-agnostic framework for describing and informing demand-side response
2016
- Experiencing domestic demand-side response with heat pumps: ‘If it works, then I’m quite happy with it’
- Taking charge: perceived control and acceptability of domestic demand-side response
2015
- What affects people’s perceived locus of control in relation to home energy use?
- Knowing Me, Knowing You: The role of trust, locus of control and privacy concern in acceptance of domestic electricity demand-side response
- Is it time? Consumers and time of use tariffs
- Public acceptability of domestic demand-side response in Great Britain: The role of automation and direct load control
2014
- Exploring perceived control in domestic electricity demand-side response
- A survey experiment measuring people’s perceived control in domestic demand side response
- Measuring people's perceived control in domestic demand side response: scale development
- Out of control, out of the question? Views on perceived control in domestic demand side response
- Who Has The Power? Exploring perceived control in domestic demand side response
- Children, parents and home energy use: Exploring motivations and limits to energy demand reduction
Undated
- Keynote: Toolkit for Transparency, Reproducibility & Quality in Energy Research
- Social impacts of peer-to-peer energy trading: a rapid realist review protocol
- Transparency, Reproducibility and Quality in Applied Energy Research: Challenges and Solutions
- What motivates retrofitting? Results of a nationally representative sample in Great Britain