Welcome to my personal website.

My name is Davidmac Olisa Ekeocha, and I’m a Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at De Montfort University. I earned my PhD in Economics from the University of Liverpool, and my work sits at the intersection of AI economics, electricity markets, and the energy transition. My current works focus on a simple but increasingly urgent question: "What happens when the electricity system meets a fundamentally new kind of demand?"

Artificial intelligence is introducing load that is not just enormous but synchronised, volatile, and capable of disappearing instantly. At the same time, decarbonisation is removing the physical inertia that once cushioned the grid from shocks. My research looks at this collision—how the AI buildout and the energy transition interact to create new system‑level risks and costs—and then follows those implications through to market design. I ask which of these costs current rules fail to price, whether prices or mandates are the right tools to govern them, and who ultimately pays when the system isn’t designed for the demand it now faces.

Alongside this work, I continue research using field experiments, Bayesian econometrics, and natural experiments to study renewable energy microgrids in Africa, renewable curtailment, emissions leakage, the winner’s curse, and the relationship between modern energy access and human capital.

My research appears in The Energy Journal, with additional papers under review at leading economics journals.

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