Tuesday 24 November 2015 11:47am
PhD candidate
Tel +64 3 479 8059
Email jefferson.dew@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Jefferson is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Sustainability. Jefferson completed a Bachelor of Applied Science with Honours at the University of Otago in 2016 focusing on residential energy use. Jefferson is looking at agriculture energy use and is also carrying out research into electric vehicles part-time.
Growing up in the shadow of the Tararua ranges, Jefferson has a love for tramping and the outdoors as well as choral singing and playing the double bass.
Research
Jefferson is researching the social and technical barriers to increased demand response capabilities in the agricultural sector. More flexible consumption of electricity has the potential to reduce costs to consumers and enable more renewable energy use in New Zealand. This research is part of the National Science Challenge – Science for Technological Innovation aimed at tackling New Zealand’s hi-tech challenges to grow our economy.
Jefferson's Research Demand Response in Agriculture
