25/11/2024

Dr. Jamie Bright

Jamie has an academic background, obtaining a PhD in solar energy resource assessment through data science application (University of Leeds 2012-2017). He has applied that research in real-time solar forecasting using satellite imagery, feeding intellectual property into a startup called Solcast, later acquired by DNV (Australian National Uni 2017-2019). 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) and since joining UKPN in 2021 he has created our first short term operational forecasting software in the newly formed Data Science & Development team in the DSO.