Kate
Hill

Lead Research Analyst

Phone: +44 (0) 1603 542136
Email: k.hill@cornwall-insight.com

Kate is a Lead Research Analyst in our Research team where her role is to develop and deliver research that expands our market expertise and knowledge base. She has extensive experience on the domestic retail market and has previously led the research, delivery and ongoing enhancements of our domestic retail services in our Consumer Markets team. Kate is also involved in delivering our training services.

Kate joined Cornwall Insight in September 2011 after graduating from the University of East Anglia with a BSc (Hons) Environmental Science with a Year in Industry.

Kate Hill

Latest thinking

Heat networks

Evolving Business Models for Heat

Heating is responsible for nearly a quarter of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions and therefore decarbonising heat is an essential stage in the transition to net zero. While they currently only provide 3% of total UK heat, heat networks could provide a mechanism for decarbonising heat. Zoning could help remove...

Low carbon generation

Battery storage in Japan: An up-and-coming market?

This paper includes exclusive insights from Cornwall Insight’s Japan Benchmark Power Curve. In this insight paper, we discuss the demand and challenges accompanying Japan's changing energy mix. Aiming to address whether, as the transition to net zero creates greater need and opportunities for faster dispatch electricity storage, could Japan represent...

Low carbon generation

Is Germany going green? Charting Germany’s energy transition (2nd edition)

This paper includes exclusive insights from Cornwall Insight’s North West Europe Benchmark Power Curve. The first edition of this report was published in June 2023. Using exclusive insights from our new North West Europe Benchmark Power Curve, our insight paper assesses the impact of macroeconomic and geopolitical challenges on Germany’s...

Low carbon generation

Is Germany going green? Charting Germany’s energy transition (2nd edition)

This paper includes exclusive insights from Cornwall Insight’s North West Europe Benchmark Power Curve. The first edition of this report was published in June 2023. Using exclusive insights from our new North West Europe Benchmark Power Curve, our insight paper assesses the impact of macroeconomic and geopolitical challenges on Germany’s...

Home supply and services

Rocketing energy prices and failing suppliers—what is happening?

Sky high gas prices and energy suppliers going out of business have been key headlines in the news over recent weeks, but what is actually happening?  Through the COVID-19 pandemic we saw much lower gas prices, which have been surging upwards since the spring and risen rapidly through the summer, a time...

Commercial and market outlook

The digital transition and its lessons for the energy sector

Digitalisation of data is happening across all sectors globally. It has become pivotal to developing, modernising and transforming sectors from banking to healthcare. With COP26 on the horizon, a net zero target by 2050 enshrined in UK law and the sixth carbon budget aiming to reduce emissions by 78% by...

Business supply and services

Responses to COVID-19 boost energy suppliers’ reputations with customers

2020 is, unfortunately, proving to be a year that we will never forget. It has been a year of change and adaptability for us all, including domestic energy suppliers, with many suppliers having had to adapt to increasing numbers of customers in distress while operating at reduced capacity and/or with...

Commercial and market outlook

Editor’s Pick | H119 energy switching up 17%

Some 5.8mn electricity and gas switches were reported in the first six months of 2019 (H119), up from 4.97mn a year early. Energy UK reported on 22 July that electricity switching in June was 440,323. While the figure was down 9% year-on-year, the H119 total of 3.047mn was up 10%...