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Giorgos Petrou

University College London

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Air Conditioning and the Future Electricity System in Great Britain

Energy Research & Social Science, volume 136, 2026[10.1016/j.erss.2026.104727]
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 30 Jul 2025 Last Revised: 06 May 2026
Charles H. Simpson, Sapna Halai, James Price, Giorgos Petrou, Clare Heaviside and Michael Davies
University College London - Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, University College London, University College London, University College London - Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering and IEDE
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air conditioning, united kingdom, renewable energy, overheating

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Adapting care homes to heat: a comparison of building retrofit interventions in London, UK

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 09 Sep 2025 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2026
Eleni Oikonomou, Nishesh Jain, Giorgos Petrou, Ioanna Tsoulou, Anna Mavrogianni, Rajat Gupta, Alastair Howard, Ai Milojevic and Michael Davies
University College London - Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, University College London, University College London, University College London, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford Brookes University, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and IEDE
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care homes, overheating risk, climate adaptation, Building retrofit, passive cooling interventions, air conditioning

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Assessing the vulnerability of care homes in England to overheating during air conditioning failure

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 30 Jul 2025
Charles H. Simpson, Giorgos Petrou, Eleni Oikonomou, Clare Heaviside and Michael Davies
University College London - Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, University College London - Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London - Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering and IEDE
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air conditioning, care homes, health, climate change, heatwaves, vulnerability, health impacts of climate change