Profile

Chris is a research analyst in the Lower Carbon Futures team and studies technologies for greenhouse gas emission reductions. Primarily, Chris's focus is on renewables, especially the use of solar photovoltaics within the household and on commercial buildings. The ECI has undertaken extensive monitoring of solar technologies in the PV-Compare project and as part of the Government's Large-scale Building-integrated Photovoltaic field trial. Chris is currently examining how massive numbers of small-scale renewables and microgeneration can be incorporated into the electricity grid as part of the SUPERGEN consortium on Highly Distributed Power Systems. The ECI's work on this consortium project involves scenario creation, electricity network modelling and policy requirements to support the development of a highly distributed power system.

Chris has also completed a number of other initiatives at the ECI, most notably accounting for the environmental impact of aviation emissions. Chris’s background in chemistry allows him to combine the impacts of atmospheric chemistry with energy and policy issues to produce models for calculating emissions for offsetting or corporate reporting purposes.

Chris has also undertaken a series of smaller projects at ECI including work on the 40% house, methane uk examining methane's role as a greenhouse gas, market transformation and developing a code of practice for green electricity suppliers.

Recent Publications

• Hawkes, A., Bergman, N., Jardine, C., Staffell, I., Brett, D. and Brandon, N. (2010) A change of scale? prospects for distributed energy resources. Chapter 8 in, Skea, J., Ekins, P. and M. Winskel (eds.) Energy 2050 - Making the Transition to a Secure Low Carbon Energy System. Earthscan, ISBN 9781849710848.
• Curtis, D and Jardine, C.N., "Electrifying Clinics in Rural Ghana", Final report by the Environmental Change Institute, 2009 for Sindicatum Climate Change Foundation
• Bergman, N. and Jardine, C. (2009) Power from the People: Domestic Microgeneration and the Low Carbon Buildings Programme. ECI Research Report No 34.
• Jardine, C.N. (2009) Calculating The Carbon Dioxide Emissions of Flights. Final report by the Environmental Change Institute
• C.N.Jardine and G. Ault (2008) Scenarios for highly distributed power systems. Proc. IMechE, Part A: J. of Power and Energy, 2008, 222(A7)
• Jardine, C.N., Performance of West Oxforsdhire District Council Office's Photovoltaic Arrays, PVSAT3, Durham, 2007
• Boardman, B., Jardine, C.N., Lipp, J., "Green Electricity Code of Practice", ECI, 2006
• Jardine, C.N. Calculating the Environmental Impact of Aviation Emissions, Climate Care, 2006.
• Brenda Boardman, Sarah Darby, Gavin Killip, Mark Hinnells, Christian N. Jardine, Jane Palmer and Graham Sinden. 40% house. ECI, University of Oxford, 2005.
• Christian N. Jardine, Brenda Boardman, Ayub Osman, Julia Vowles and Jane Palmer. methane uk. ECI, University of Oxford 2004
• Christian N. Jardine and Kevin Lane, "Photovoltaics in the UK: An Introductory Guide For New Customers". ECI Report 27, 2003.
• Christian N. Jardine and Kevin Lane, "PV-COMPARE: Relative Performance of Photovoltaic Technologies in Northern and Southern Europe", PV in Europe Conference and Exhibition, Rome, 2002.
• Christian N. Jardine, T.R. Betts, R. Gottschalg, D.G. Infield and Kevin Lane, "Influence of Spectral Effects on the Performance of Multi-junction Amorphous Silicon Cells", PV in Europe Conference and Exhibition, Rome, 2002.
• R. Gottschalg, C.N. Jardine, R. Rüther, T.R. Betts, G.J. Conibeer, J. Close, D.G. Infield, M.J. Kearney, K.H. Lam, K. Lane, H. Pang, R. Tscharner, "Performance of Amorphous Silicon Double Junction Photovoltaic Systems in Different Climatic Zones", 29th IEEE Conference for Photovoltaic Specialists, New Orleans, 2002.