Staff profile

I am a PhD researcher in the Department of Engineering at Durham University. I completed my MSc in New and Renewable Energy at Durham in 2022, where I investigated how energy storage can reduce carbon emissions in the UK electrical grid. Building on this foundation, my doctoral research focuses on developing and simulating emerging photovoltaic (PV) technologies under realistic operating conditions. By examining how these PV systems perform in environments with high temperatures or varying light intensities, my work aims to highlight new pathways for emerging PV technologies to contribute to achieving net-zero targets.

Journal Article

• Williams, C., Michaels, H., Crossland, A. F., Zhang, Z., Shirshova, N., MacKenzie, R. C. I., Sun, H., Kettle, J., Freitag, M., & Groves, C. (2023). Decarbonising electrical grids using photovoltaics with enhanced capacity factors. Energy & Environmental Science, 16(10), 4650-4659. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3ee00633f