Publications

Martin Pullinger, Ellen Zapata-Webborn, Jonathan Kilgour, Minnie Ashdown, Simon Elam, Jessica Few, Nigel Goddard, Frances Hollick, Tadj Oreszczyn, Lin Zheng (2026). Residential electricity and gas demand in Great Britain: archetypal demand profiles and household explanatory factors. Energy Research and Social Science, 138.

Preprint Journal

Clare Hanmer, Eoghan McKenna, Ellen Zapata-Webborn, Jessica Few, Martin Pullinger (2024). The impact of the ‘cost of living crisis’ in Britain: energy saving actions by fuel-poor households in winter 2022/23. European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy.

Conference Proceedings (open access)

Martin Pullinger, Ellen Zapata-Webborn, Jonathan Kilgour, Simon Elam, Jessica Few, Nigel Goddard, Clare Hanmer, Eoghan McKenna, Tadj Oreszczyn, Lynda Webb (2024). Capturing variation in daily energy demand profiles over time with cluster analysis in British homes (September 2019–August 2022). Applied Energy.

Journal article

Ellen Zapata-Webborn, Clare Hanmer, Tadj Oreszczyn, Gesche Huebner, Eoghan McKenna, Jessica Few, Simon Elam, Martin Pullinger, Callum Cheshire, Dominic Friel, Harry Masters, Alex Whittaker (2024). Winter demand falls as fuel bills rise: Understanding the energy impacts of the cost-of-living crisis on British households. Energy and Buildings.

Preprint Code Journal article (open access)

Gesche M. Huebner, Clare Hanmer, Ellen Zapata-Webborn, Martin Pullinger, Eoghan James McKenna, Jessica Few, Simon Elam, Tadj Oreszczyn (2023). Self-reported energy use behaviour changed significantly during the cost-of-living crisis in winter 2022/23: insights from cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys in Great Britain. Scientific Reports.

Journal article

Clare Hanmer, Ellen Zapata-Webborn (2023). Settling for colder homes as energy prices rise: evidence from 4200 households in Great Britain. BEHAVE 2023.

Conference proceedings

Ellen Zapata-Webborn, Eoghan McKenna, Martin Pullinger, Callum Cheshire, Harry Masters, Alex Whittaker, Jessica Few, Simon Elam, Tadj Oreszczyn (2023). The impact of COVID-19 on household energy consumption in England and Wales from April 2020 to March 2022. Energy and Buildings, 297.

Jessica Few, Despina Manouseli, Eoghan McKenna, Martin Pullinger, Ellen Zapata-Webborn, Simon Elam, David Shipworth, Tadj Oreszczyn (2023). The over-prediction of energy use by EPCs in Great Britain: A comparison of EPC-modelled and metered primary energy use intensity. Energy and Buildings, 288.

Jessica Few, Eoghan McKenna, Martin Pullinger, Simon Elam, Ellen Webborn, Tadj Oreszczyn (2022). Smart Energy Research Lab: Energy use in GB domestic buildings 2021.

Ellen Webborn, Jessica Few, Eoghan McKenna, Simon Elam, Martin Pullinger, Ben Anderson, David Shipworth, Tadj Oreszczyn (2021). The SERL Observatory Dataset: Longitudinal Smart Meter Electricity and Gas Data, Survey, EPC and Climate Data for over 13,000 Households in Great Britain. Energies, 14(21), 6934.

Gesche M Huebner, Nicole E Watson, Kenan Direk, Eoghan McKenna, Ellen Webborn, Frances Hollick, Simon Elam, Tadj Oreszczyn (2021). Survey study on energy use in UK homes during Covid-19. Buildings and Cities, 2(1), 952–969.

Ellen Webborn, Eoghan McKenna, Simon Elam, Ben Anderson, Adam Cooper, Tadj Oreszczyn (2021). Increasing response rates and improving research design: Learnings from the Smart Energy Research Lab in the United Kingdom. Energy Research & Social Science 83 (2022) 102312.

Preprint Journal

Eoghan McKenna, Jessica Few, Ellen Webborn, Ben Anderson, Simon Elam, David Shipworth, Adam Cooper, Martin Pullinger, Tadj Oreszczyn (2021). Explaining daily energy demand in British housing using linked smart meter and socio-technical data in a bottom-up statistical model. Energy and Buildings 258 (2022) 111845.

Ellen Webborn, Tadj Oreszczyn (2019). Champion the energy data revolution. Nature Energy, Vol 4, 624-626(2019).

Ellen Webborn (2019). Natural Heterogeneity Prevents Synchronization of Fridges With Deterministic Frequency Control. IEEE Access, Vol 7.

Eoghan McKenna, Ellen Webborn, Philip Leicester, Simon Elam (2019). Analysis of international residential solar PV self-consumption. ECEEE 2019 Summer Study Proceedings.

PDF Slides Journal

Ellen Webborn, Eoghan McKenna, Simon Elam, Tadj Oreszczyn (2019). Utilising smart meter data for research and innovation in the UK. ECEEE 2019 Summer Study Proceedings.

PDF Slides Journal

Ellen Webborn (2018). The dynamics of thermostatically controlled loads for power system frequency control. PhD Thesis. University of Warwick, Centre for Complexity Science..

Ellen Webborn, Robert S. MacKay (2017). A Stability Analysis of Thermostatically Controlled Loads for Power System Frequency Control. Complexity, Vol 2017.