Michael Jack

Michael Jack is a theoretical physicist with 18 years of experience in sustainable energy research. Current interests include understanding patterns of electricity use, such as, peak demand and how demand patterns match with renewable electricity supply.

He is particularly interested in how energy efficiency and new technologies might influence these patterns, and how flexibility in energy end use, via smart appliances or battery storage, might enable greater uptake of variable renewable supply.

He is director of the Energy Programme at the University of Otago and co-convenor of the Otago Energy Research Center a large multidisciplinary network of energy researchers at Otago.