Hi! I’m Claire Halloran (they/them), a doctoral candidate in energy systems engineering at the University of Oxford Energy and Power Group and a Rhodes Scholar. I research the impact of heat pump deployment on the electricity system in the UK and US, with a focus on the spatial and grid planning aspects of this problem. I use data-driven methods for spatial analysis of the impact that residential heat pump deployment will have on the electricity system. To understand how to manage this residential heating transition, I incorporate the resulting spatially and temporally granular data into energy system planning models. During my PhD, I’ve become a bit of a map nerd and enjoyed communicating with policymakers and general audiences about my research. Before starting my PhD, I earned my Bachelor’s in Materials Science and Engineering at MIT.

Contact

• Email: claire [dot] halloran [at] eng.ox.ac.uk
• Twitter: @ClaireEHalloran
• Mastodon: clairehalloran@mastodon.energy

Media

Check out my latest blog posts and other media here:

• Press release: How heat pumps can keep homes warm without frying the power grid
• Baby, it’s cold outside: how are you and your neighbors staying warm this winter?
• Interview: Renewable Energy Update: Balancing the Energy Grid

Recent Publications

• Claire Halloran, Jesus Lizana, Filiberto Fele, Malcolm McCulloch. Data-based, high spatiotemporal resolution heat pump demand for power system planning Applied Energy. 2024.
• Jesus Lizana, Claire E Halloran, Scot Wheeler, Nabil Amghar, Renaldi Renaldi, Markus Killendahl, Luis A Perez-Maqueda, Malcolm McCulloch, Ricardo Chacartegui. A national data-based energy modelling to identify optimal heat storage capacity to support heating electrification. Energy. 2023.
• Claire E. Halloran, Filiberto Fele, Malcolm D. McCulloch. Impact of spatiotemporal heterogeneity in heat pump loads on generation and storage requirements. IEEE PES General Meeting. 2022. (arXiv)
• Lucy Allington, Carla Cannone, Ioannis Pappis, Karla Cervantes Barron, Will Usher, Steve Pye, Edward Brown, Mark Howells, Miriam Zachau Walker, Aniq Ahsan, Flora Charbonnier, Claire Halloran, Stephanie Hirmer, Jennifer Cronin, Constantinos Taliotis, Caroline Sundin, Vignesh Sridharan, Eunice Ramos, Maarten Brinkerink, Paul Deane, Andrii Gritsevskyi, Gustavo Moura, Arnaud Rouget, David Wogan, Edito Barcelona, Taco Niet, Holger Rogner, Franziska Bock, Jairo Quirós-Tortós, Jam Angulo-Paniagua, Satheesh Krishnamurthy, John Harrison, Long Seng To. Selected ‘Starter kit’ energy system modelling data for selected countries in Africa, East Asia, and South America (#CCG, 2021). Data in Brief. 2022.
• Carla Cannone, Lucy Allington, Karla Cervantes Barron, Flora Charbonnier, Miriam Zachau Walker, Claire Halloran, Rudolf Yeganyan, Naomi Tan, Jonathan M Cullen, John Harrison, Long Seng To, Mark Howells. Designing a zero-order energy transition model: a guide for creating a Starter Data Kit. Preprint. 2022.