Lee White
Dr Lee White
Qualifications
BASc in Energy Management (University of Otago), PhD in Urban Planning and Development (University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy)
Fellow with the Zero Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific Grand Challenge
Dr Lee White is a Fellow with the Zero Carbon Energy in the Asia Pacific Grand Challenge program. She earned her PhD at the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, examining the impact of particular policy designs in terms of equity and the role that urban policy can play in supporting energy transition.
Her research relates to understanding how systems can be changed to increase clean technology adoption, including policies that can make distributed generation more accessible to individuals. She has published in areas including drivers of residential solar adoption, predictors of intent to adopt electric vehicles, and household response to demand management rates to shift timing of electricity use. Her research examines design, implementation, and multifaceted impacts of policies to support clean technology adoption, in areas ranging from design of green hydrogen certification schemes to understanding varying impacts of electricity rate and regulatory design across sociodemographic groups.
Research interests
- Environment Policy
- Energy Policy
- Sustainability
- Socio-technical transition
- Urban And Regional Planning
- Econometric And Statistical Methods
- Panel Data Analysis
Systems under strain
RegNet’s Lee White and ANU Energy Change Institute’s Thomas Longden join Sharon Bessell and Arnagrett
ANU energy experts mapping the way to tackle regulatory disparities in electricity access and services across Australia
Almost half a million people in Australia including nearly 150,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents live in remote areas that often have different arrangements for rights and protect
Why “curtailment” is about to become a dirty word: rooftop solar’s gone hard – now it’s being told to go home …
RegNet’s Research Fellow Lee White was quoted in Cosmos on the surge of rooftop solar uptake of rooftop solar and the effects on the electricity network.
What’s next for climate and COVID? – Lee White on ABC Radio Canberra
ANU RegNet’s Lee White speaks to Linda Mottram on ABC Radio on the uptake of electric vehicles in Australia, including emission standards, availa
How Australia’s coal country past is scuppering its renewable energy future
The crucial climate change summit in Glasgow has just begun, and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is bringing his widely criticised
RegNet scholars awarded APIP grant
We are delighted to announce that Associate Professor Christian Downie, Dr Yandisa Ngqangashe and Dr Lee White have secured funding from the Asia-Pacific Innovation Program (APIP
Involving renters in energy transition: ANU energy experts receive funding from Energy Consumers Australia
Exploring ways for renters to benefit from solar power and renewable energy transition is the focus of a new project at The Australian National University (ANU).
RegNet scholars awarded APIP grant
We are delighted to announce that four RegNet scholars have secured funding from the Asia-Pacific Innovation Program (APIP) for the completion of the following projects:
ANU-ActewAGL project seeks to better understand electricity use
A unique research project at The Australian National University to explore home insulation and electricity use has been named the 2020 winner of the Icon Water and ActewAGL Perpetual Endowment Fund
Energy transition, like coronavirus response, is a global scale problem that will rely on sub-national actors to pick up the slack where national and international action falls short
Dr Lee White Research Fellow with the Zero Carbon Energy in the Asia Pacific Grand Challenge program, writes blog post in Nature
Time-of-use electricity tariffs could hit vulnerable households with high costs - Dr Lee White featured in Renew Economy
Dr Lee White talks about her research on time-of-use electricity tariffs in the article “Time-of-use electricity tariffs could hit vulnerable households with high costs”.
Time-of-Use Electricity Rates May Hit Vulnerable Groups Harder, Study Finds - Dr Lee White featured in IEEE Spectrum
Dr Lee White featured in article where she talks about her research on time-of-Use Electricity Rates.
Current
Maximizing consumer ability to manage electricity demand
Working with ActewAGL, the research team will evaluate the extent to which poorly insulated homes limit people’s ability to control bills when on demand management rates such as time-of-use.
What do cities have to learn from each other about the best tools to get to 100% renewable city-wide electricity?
Globally, many national governments such as those in Australia and the USA are reluctant to take meaningful action on climate change.
