Reducing household energy consumption

Dr Michael Pollitt's research into the economics of energy has been cited in the Financial Times. Dr Pollitt is Assistant Director of the ESRC Electricity Policy Research Group at the Judge Business School and is also Director of Studies in Management and Economics and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College.

You can hear Michael Pollitt discuss the challenge of reducing household energy consumption in a debate recorded as part of the University's recent Science Week. Such reductions are often portrayed as expensive and unpalatable but can be achieved, he argues, through the use of innovative technologies.

This is an archived news story, first posted in 2011.