Meg Rush
Doctoral Researcher
Loughborough University
Megan studied an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Physics, graduating in 2020 from the University of Warwick. After her studies, she undertook a placement in industry which involved creating a model for battery degradation, utilising historic data of various assets operating in the FFR market and for energy arbitrage services, using Python. This led her to ultimately undertake a master’s degree in Sustainable Energy Engineering from the University of Nottingham, graduating in 2021. Following on from this, she worked in Building Physics for a year in an M&E company, specifically in building energy modelling, before joining ERBE for the 2022 cohort.
Active Management of Distributed Energy Resources in UK Low Voltage Electricity Distribution Networks
This research aims to explore how reducing the need for infrastructural upgrades in the local power distribution network can be achieved by flexibly operating distributed energy resources (DERs) such as electric vehicles, heat pumps, and solar photovoltaics across UK homes. Utilising high-resolution monitored data can provide new insights into how increasing penetrations of DERs shape electricity demand and mitigate the impacts of mass electrification, particularly in domestic heating and transport.