Professor Pollitt is a member of the editorial boards of The Energy Journal, Review of Industrial Organization, Competition and Regulation in Network Industries and Utilities Policy. He is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research (CBR). He is currently a member of Ofwat's Water 2020 advisory board and on the National Infrastructure Commission's Regulatory Challenge Panel. He is also a Joint Academic Director at the CERRE Centre on Regulation in Europe. Since 2000 he has been convenor of the Association of Christian Economists, UK.

Professor Pollitt has advised the UK Competition Commission, the New Zealand Commerce Commission, Ofgem, Ofwat, ESRC, the Norwegian Research Council, the DTI, the World Bank and the European Commission. He has also consulted for National Grid, AWG, EdF, Eneco, Nuon, Roche and TenneT. He is the Coach on the Cambridge MBA's Energy & Environment concentration, and the University's Energy Lead for Policy, Economics and Risk. He is Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group, and a member of the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network.

Publications, Links, and Resources

Greve, T., Teng, F., Pollitt, M.G. and Strbac, G. (2018) "A system operator's utility function for the frequency response market." Applied Energy, 231: 562-569 (DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.09.088)

Newbery, D., Pollitt, M.G., Ritz, R.A. and Strielkowski, W. (2018) "Market design for a high-renewables European electricity system." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 91: 695-707 (DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2018.04.025)

Richter, L.-L. and Pollitt, M.G. (2018) "Which smart electricity service contracts will consumers accept? The demand for compensation in a platform market." Energy Economics, 72: 436-450 (DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2018.04.004)

Pollitt, M.G. (2018) "Electricity network charging in the presence of distributed energy resources: principles, problems and solutions." Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy, 7(1): 89-103 (DOI: 10.5547/2160-5890.7.1.mpol)

Sidhu, A.S., Pollitt, M.G. and Anaya, K.L. (2018) "A social cost benefit analysis of grid-scale electrical energy storage projects: a case study." Applied Energy, 212: 881-894 (DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.12.085)

Greve, T. and Pollitt, M.G. (2017) "Determining the optimal length of regulatory guarantee: a length-of-contract auction." The Economic Journal, 127(605): F325–F333 (DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12405)