Niall Farrell

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 877 citations indexed

About

Niall Farrell is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Niall Farrell has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 877 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 11 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Niall Farrell's work include Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (10 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (9 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (5 papers). Niall Farrell is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (10 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (9 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (5 papers). Niall Farrell collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, United Kingdom and Germany. Niall Farrell's co-authors include Thomas Morstyn, Malcolm McCulloch, Sarah Darby, Seán Lyons, Karyn Morrissey, Mel T. Devine, Jacquelyn Pless, Cameron Hepburn, Cathal O’Donoghue and William T. Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Applied Energy and Energy Policy.

In The Last Decade

Niall Farrell

22 papers receiving 844 citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Using peer-to-peer energy-trading platforms to incentivize prosumers to form federated power plants
    2018 585 citations Thomas Morstyn, Niall Farrell et al. Nature Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Niall Farrell Ireland 10 583 279 148 129 90 26 877
Martin Weibelzahl Germany 18 705 1.2× 119 0.4× 247 1.7× 156 1.2× 36 0.4× 43 1.0k
Anke Weidlich Germany 17 798 1.4× 207 0.7× 147 1.0× 124 1.0× 36 0.4× 59 1.1k
Samuli Honkapuro Finland 16 714 1.2× 205 0.7× 206 1.4× 58 0.4× 35 0.4× 121 934
Sinan Küfeoğlu Finland 15 614 1.1× 386 1.4× 109 0.7× 77 0.6× 78 0.9× 40 878
Peter Cappers United States 15 902 1.5× 322 1.2× 312 2.1× 110 0.9× 16 0.2× 38 1.1k
Ryan Hledik United States 13 726 1.2× 193 0.7× 276 1.9× 62 0.5× 17 0.2× 19 848
Marc-Fabian Körner Germany 12 331 0.6× 77 0.3× 155 1.0× 74 0.6× 59 0.7× 29 575
Tiago Soares Portugal 17 1.4k 2.3× 645 2.3× 170 1.1× 27 0.2× 113 1.3× 77 1.5k
Rahmatallah Poudineh United Kingdom 14 358 0.6× 83 0.3× 228 1.5× 161 1.2× 16 0.2× 38 719
Fabian Scheller Germany 16 586 1.0× 100 0.4× 226 1.5× 71 0.6× 22 0.2× 46 987

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Fields of papers citing papers by Niall Farrell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Niall Farrell

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Farrell, Niall, et al.. (2025). The equity and efficiency effects of energy subsidy cost-recovery. The Journal of Economic Inequality. 23(4). 1309–1335.
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Lynch, Muireann Á., et al.. (2024). The impact of extended decision times in planning and regulatory processes for energy infrastructure. Utilities Policy. 91. 101824–101824. 3 indexed citations
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Farrell, Niall, et al.. (2024). Are energy performance certificates a strong predictor of actual energy use? Evidence from high-frequency thermostat panel data. Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy. 13(2).
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Farrell, Niall. (2023). Policy design for green hydrogen. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 178. 113216–113216. 58 indexed citations
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Farrell, Niall, et al.. (2023). How well do building energy performance certificates predict heat loss?. Energy Efficiency. 16(7). 4 indexed citations
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Farrell, Niall. (2022). Energy Subsidy Cost Recovery. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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O’Donoghue, Cathal, et al.. (2022). Impact Assessment Modelling for the Ocean Economy: A Review of Developments. 8(2). 5 indexed citations
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Pless, Jacquelyn, Cameron Hepburn, & Niall Farrell. (2020). Bringing rigour to energy innovation policy evaluation. Nature Energy. 5(4). 284–290. 33 indexed citations
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Farrell, Niall. (2020). The increasing cost of ignoring Coase: Inefficient electricity tariffs, welfare loss and welfare-reducing technological change. Energy Economics. 97. 104848–104848. 9 indexed citations
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Farrell, Niall, Mel T. Devine, & Alireza Soroudi. (2018). An auction framework to integrate dynamic transmission expansion planning and pay-as-bid wind connection auctions. Applied Energy. 228. 2462–2477. 13 indexed citations
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Mattauch, Linus, Richard Millar, Rick van der Ploeg, et al.. (2018). Steering the Climate System: An Extended Comment. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations
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Morstyn, Thomas, Niall Farrell, Sarah Darby, & Malcolm McCulloch. (2018). Using peer-to-peer energy-trading platforms to incentivize prosumers to form federated power plants. Nature Energy. 3(2). 94–101. 585 indexed citations breakdown →
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Devine, Mel T., Niall Farrell, & William T. Lee. (2016). Optimising feed-in tariff design through efficient risk allocation. Sustainable Energy Grids and Networks. 9. 59–74. 14 indexed citations
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Farrell, Niall, Mel T. Devine, William T. Lee, James P. Gleeson, & Seán Lyons. (2016). Specifying An Efficient Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff. The Energy Journal. 38(2). 53–76. 14 indexed citations
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Farrell, Niall & Seán Lyons. (2015). Who should pay for renewable energy? Comparing the household impacts of different policy mechanisms in Ireland. Energy Research & Social Science. 7. 31–42. 31 indexed citations
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O’Donoghue, Cathal, et al.. (2015). Modelling the Spatial Distributional Agricultural Incomes. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations
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Devine, Mel T., Niall Farrell, & William Lee. (2014). Managing investor and consumer exposure to electricity market price risks through Feed-in Tariff design. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 4 indexed citations
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Farrell, Niall, Cathal O. Donoghue, & Karyn Morrissey. (2014). Quantifying the uncertainty of wave energy conversion device cost for policy appraisal: An Irish case study. Energy Policy. 78. 62–77. 20 indexed citations
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Morrissey, Karyn, Cathal O’Donoghue, & Niall Farrell. (2013). The Local Impact of the Marine Sector in Ireland: A Spatial Microsimulation Analysis. Spatial Economic Analysis. 9(1). 31–50. 21 indexed citations

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