Senior Research Fellow (The Sussex Energy Group)
Research
Jan is interested in the politics of energy efficiency. In his research, he focuses on policy instruments such as energy efficiency obligations, on-bill financing mechanisms such as the Green Deal in the UK, and soft loans for energy efficiency retrofits such as the KfW programmes in Germany. Jan also has an interest in fuel poverty policy and the equity implications of energy policy in general. In the past, he worked on environmental and energy economics, mainly in the area of external costs of energy. Jan is a reviewer for journals such as Energy Policy, Energy Efficiency, Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, Energy and Buildings, Building Research & Information, Energy Conversion and Management, Energy Research & Social Science, Energies, and Sustainability as well as a book reviewer for Springer.