Keynote 5 : Smart energy homes and communities

Rajat Gupta is Director of the multi-disciplinary Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD) and Low Carbon Building Research Group at Oxford Brookes University (Oxford, UK). He holds a senior professorial chair in sustainable architecture and climate change. Rajat’s research interests lie in evaluating building performance from a socio-technical perspective, smart local energy systems, local energy mapping, scaling up energy retrofits and climate change adaptation. As Principal Investigator (PI) he has won over £13 million in research grants from EPSRC, ESRC, NERC, EU and Innovate UK to investigate these subjects. Rajat is presently Co-I on the £9 million EPSRC EnergRev project on scaling up smart local energy systems, PI of the £382k EPSRC EnergyREV Plus project on smart energy tools for enhancing user engagement in local energy projects and lead academic in the Innovate UK £15.4 million smart local energy system demonstrator, Local Energy Oxfordshire. He is also lead academic on a UK Government funded Breathe project on Bringing Renewable Energy Automation To Homes Everywhere. Rajat is Director of the international Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) network and member of the EPSRC and ESRC peer review colleges. He has delivered 50 conference keynotes and produced over 150 publications. Rajat lives in a home that has solar panels, smart meters, smart IAQ monitors, Electric Vehicle and one of the first residential Vehicle2Grid charger.