Fellow's Profile
Caroline Hellyer
Fellow's Profile
Caroline Hellyer
Gridlocked: Decarbonisation and Energy Poverty
Fellowship
- Themes
- Focus
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Investigating European decarbonisation via grids, policy, innovation, and people
- Countries
- Fellowship year
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2025
Contact
Biography
My Fellowship is focussed on the European electricity grid and decarbonisation. The European grid is the largest electricity transmission and distribution network in the world linking all of our countries together via a vast web of cables. The way that we consume, produce and distribute energy is changing rapidly and will have a major impact on people’s lives.
Europe’s energy transition is competing for funding and support with calls to water down green policies and increasing militarisation. There’s a cacophony of lobbying and competing interests fighting to shape the route forward. All this is taking place in the rarified air of academia or political and financial circles, far removed from the people it will affect.
As we move towards smart grids, batteries, time of use tariffs and two-way transmission, there’s a risk that many people could become disenfranchised. I want to learn how other countries address these problems, whether through policy or innovation, to bring the issues into the open and drive a more public and inclusive conversation.
I have a background in research, writing, editorial and media training. I have worked in analysis advising clients across a range of sectors particularly mining, defence, government and finance. I also have professional media skills including radio production and photography. I’m looking forward to using these skills to help document my research.
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All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
