Dan Cook
Managing Principal Consultant
Offices: United Kingdom
Email: daniel.cook@technopolis-group.com
Dan Cook is a Managing Principal Consultant with 13 years of consulting experience. He has led and managed a number of studies in the energy and environment space in recent years. He combines his recent experience in delivering energy sector process and impact evaluations with a background and experience of quantitative energy sector modelling.
Dan currently leads the work of Technopolis as part of the £3.75m Heat Pump Ready Stream 3 Programme, that provides collaboration, learning, evaluation, and dissemination activities as part of the wider £60m Heat Pump Ready Programme.
Dan also has built an expertise in evaluation of electricity flexibility in the UK market, leading the evaluation of the Flexiblity Innovation Programme (FIP). The evaluation of FIP comprises 3 phases, with each phase comprising elements of process evaluation, impact evaluation and economic evaluation.
In recent years, Dan has laos delivered evaluations of the UK Capacity Market, Innovate UK Prospering from the energy Revolution (PFER) Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) and the Innovate UK Energy Catalyst Programme.
Dan also supports the delivery of the DESNZ (previous BEIS) Energy Innovation Programme (EIP) and its successor, the Net Zero Innovation Programme (NZIP) through the Technical Third Party Support (TTPS) contracts for both of these programmes. As part of the TTPS contracts, Dan has led projects shaping the design of a number of energy innovation evaluations, including the FleX Demonstrator Competition, the V2G Competition
Prior to working at Technopolis, Dan worked in strategic asset investment techno-economic modelling at both Mott MacDonald and Parsons Brinckerhoff (now WSP). He has contributed to assignments across a variety of regions and countries, including UK (Shetland), UAE, Ethiopia, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, and the Caribbean.