Diego Moya

Diego Moya is a 4th year PhD candidate from the Energy Systems Modeling Group of the Sustainable Gas Institute (SGI) of Imperial College London, and is part of the Grantham Institute’s Doctoral Training Program. He is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Ambato, UTA-Ecuador, where he teaches Non-Conventional Energy Resources and Thermal Machines. His research area is Energy Transition and Policy using methods based on Geographic Information Systems (SGI) and Techno-economic Models based on Agents (MBA).

Diego is also keen to investigate more areas related to energy conversion from solar and geothermal energy, energy conversion from solid waste, and the use of natural gas.

Diego performs energy systems modeling to evaluate sustainable scenarios for the implementation of energy policy, planning and transition in the medium and long term worldwide, using GIS and MBA. These two tools allow to include in the energy model more real characteristics in decision-making when you want to adopt new technologies, the use of fuels, define subsidies or estimate the impact of a decision in the energy area. For example, SGI makes it possible to carry out a subregional study focused on areas with higher energy density, while MBA allows to simulate the behavior of investors in these areas when they invest in new technologies. Diego is currently focused on the residential sector and the demand for heat, cold and electricity worldwide and on a case study for the industrial sector in India. In addition, he conducts case studies for China and Ecuador. The methodologies developed in Diego’s research can be applied to all sectors of the energy system, including the use of natural resources, transformation, transmission, industry, transportation, residential.