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Iain Staffell is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a significant emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, and related social sciences. The scientist's body of work spans over 100 publications, involving multiple interdisciplinary subfields.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Wind Energy Research and Development
  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Malte Jansen (23 coauthored papers)
  • Stefan Pfenninger (15 coauthored papers)
  • Richard Green (13 coauthored papers)
  • Olusola Bamisile (11 coauthored papers)
  • Nathan Johnson (10 coauthored papers)

Publications by this researcher often appear in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) - 21 publications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal - 12 publications
  • Energy Research & Social Science - 6 publications
  • Energy Policy - 6 publications
  • Renewable Energy - 5 publications

Examples of recent papers include:

  • "Water electrolysis: from textbook knowledge to the latest scientific strategies and industrial developments" (2022), published in Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Offshore wind competitiveness in mature markets without subsidy" (2020), published in Nature Energy
  • "High-resolution large-scale onshore wind energy assessments: A review of potential definitions, methodologies and future research needs" (2021), published in Renewable Energy
  • "A global model of hourly space heating and cooling demand at multiple spatial scales" (2023), published in Nature Energy
  • "How can LNG-fuelled ships meet decarbonisation targets? An environmental and economic analysis" (2021), published in Energy

Best Publications

  • The role of hydrogen and fuel cells in the global energy system

    Iain Staffell;Daniel Scamman;Anthony Velazquez Abad;Paul Balcombe

  • Future cost and performance of water electrolysis: An expert elicitation study

    O Schmidt;A Gambhir;IL Staffell;A Hawkes

  • Long-term patterns of European PV output using 30 years of validated hourly reanalysis and satellite data

    Stefan Pfenninger;Iain Staffell

  • Using bias-corrected reanalysis to simulate current and future wind power output

    Iain Staffell;Stefan Pfenninger

  • The future cost of electrical energy storage based on experience rates

    O. Schmidt;A. Hawkes;A. Gambhir;I. Staffell

  • Projecting the Future Levelized Cost of Electricity Storage Technologies

    Oliver Schmidt;Sylvain Melchior;Adam Hawkes;Iain Staffell

  • Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies for heating: A review

    Paul E. Dodds;Iain Staffell;Adam D. Hawkes;Francis Li

  • Current status of hybrid, battery and fuel cell electric vehicles: From electrochemistry to market prospects

    Bruno G. Pollet;Iain Staffell;Jin Lei Shang

  • How to decarbonise international shipping: Options for fuels, technologies and policies

    Paul Balcombe;James Brierley;Chester Lewis;Line Skatvedt

  • How does wind farm performance decline with age

    Iain Staffell;Richard Green

  • A review of domestic heat pumps

    Iain Staffell;Dan Brett;Nigel Brandon;Adam Hawkes

  • The importance of open data and software: Is energy research lagging behind?

    Stefan Pfenninger;Joseph DeCarolis;Lion Hirth;Sylvain Quoilin

  • Current status of automotive fuel cells for sustainable transport

    Bruno G. Pollet;Shyam S. Kocha;Iain Staffell

  • Balancing Europe’s wind-power output through spatial deployment informed by weather regimes

    Christian M. Grams;Remo Beerli;Stefan Pfenninger;Iain Staffell

  • The increasing impact of weather on electricity supply and demand

    Iain Staffell;Stefan Pfenninger

  • Current status of fuel cell based combined heat and power systems for residential sector

    Harikishan R. Ellamla;Iain Staffell;Piotr Bujlo;Bruno G. Pollet

  • Short-term integration costs of variable renewable energy: Wind curtailment and balancing in Britain and Germany

    Michael Joos;Iain Staffell

  • The Shape of Future Electricity Demand: Exploring Load Curves in 2050s Germany and Britain

    T. Boßmann;I. Staffell

  • Optimal design and operation of integrated wind-hydrogen-electricity networks for decarbonising the domestic transport sector in Great Britain

    Sheila Samsatli;Iain Staffell;Nouri J. Samsatli

  • The cost of domestic fuel cell micro-CHP systems

    Iain Staffell;Richard Green

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Hawkes
Adam Hawkes Imperial College London
Nigel P. Brandon
Nigel P. Brandon Imperial College London
Bruno G. Pollet
Bruno G. Pollet Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Dan J. L. Brett
Dan J. L. Brett University College London
Niall Mac Dowell
Niall Mac Dowell Imperial College London
Kevin Kendall
Kevin Kendall Hydrogen United
Paul Ekins
Paul Ekins University College London
David Infield
David Infield University of Strathclyde
Lion Hirth
Lion Hirth Hertie School
Edward S. Rubin
Edward S. Rubin Carnegie Mellon University

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