Jamie is the Data Science and Development Manager at UK Power Networks’ DSO. He has an academic background, obtaining a PhD in solar energy resource assessment through data science application at the University of Leeds. He applied that research in real-time solar forecasting using satellite imagery, feeding intellectual property into a startup called Solcast, later acquired by DNV, part of the Australian National University.

He has further applied his research in developing real-time operational solar PV forecasting for Singapore Power Network (Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, 2019-2021). Since joining UK Power Networks in 2021 he has created our first short-term operational forecasting software in the newly formed Data Science & Development team in the DSO.