Dan
Starman

Lead Consultant

Phone: +44 (0) 1603 542117
Email: d.starman@cornwall-insight.com

Dan is the Lead Consultant for New Markets at Cornwall Insight. He has eight years’ experience in the energy market, working on a range of roles including retail, wholesale, and regulation. Dan has assessed Power Purchase Agreements, advised on retail market landscaping, business models and market entry, led projects on supplier costs and third-party charges, performed due diligence on energy businesses, and delivered projects on local energy. He also delivers a range of training courses on topics including subsidy-free renewables, delivery models for local energy, network charging reform, and the decarbonisation of the heat sector.

Key projects and experience include:

  • Cornwall Insight lead multi-million-pound local energy market initiative
  • retail market entry and due diligence
  • advising market participants on the impacts of network charging reform, non-commodity costs, energy licensing and exemptions, regulatory and industry governance assessments
  • strategic management projects

Dan works with a range of established players and energy innovators, helping them understand the GB energy space and the implications any changes or modifications to industry rules will have on their businesses.

Outside of work, Dan can occasionally be found discussing network charging reform over an ale (he just can’t help himself). Otherwise, he is a busy dad for two young daughters, keeping up to date with the latest dinosaur fossil finds and discoveries, and playing or watching rugby and football.

Dan Starman

Latest thinking

Low carbon generation

Through the dark: Transformation for community energy

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Innovations

The Greater Manchester Local Energy Market – what is it?

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Low carbon generation

Paradise Lost: The changing face of Embedded Benefits

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Low carbon generation

Low-carbon levy costs to peak later than government expects

Cornwall Insight's new paper - Static Electricity: New Controls for Low Carbon Levies - has found that despite the efforts to control the costs of supporting low-carbon deployment, a continued overspend is locked in well into the next decade. Alongside the 2017 Autumn Budget the government issued details of a...