Tim
Dixon

Senior Consultant

Phone: +44 (0)1603 542144
Email: t.dixon@cornwall-insight.com

Tim is a Consultant in the Consultancy Team at Cornwall Insight, with more than six years’ experience at the company. 

He specialises in wholesale, renewables and flexibility markets, with particular areas of expertise in renewables policy, renewables revenue streams, generator routes to market, and wholesale power and gas market analysis. Tim’s specialisms helps him oversee Cornwall Insight’s subscription services spanning wholesale energy markets, PPAs, renewable asset revenue streams, policy cost forecasting, green certificates markets, and flexibility.  

Tim also contributes regularly to Cornwall Insight’s forum services, training business, and consultancy team. 

Tim joined the team in 2015 after completing his Master’s Degree in Sustainable Energy Engineering. 

Tim Dixon

Latest thinking

Power and gas networks

Considerations for forecasting non-commodity costs for large users

Electricity non-commodity costs, also known as Third Party Charges (or TPCs), are faced by the vast majority of end consumers that use electricity. They represent a significant proportion of the energy bill for domestic, SME and large industrial user types; however, their applicability and scale can vary depending on the...

Low carbon generation

CfD Auction Secures Greatest Amount Of Renewable Capacity To Date

Yesterday, the government released the results of the fourth round of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, securing almost 11GW of renewable capacity across 93 projects, nearly double the 5.8GW awarded in Allocation Round 3 in 2019. The greatest capacity – at 7.0GW - has been secured from new offshore wind projects,...

Low carbon generation

Surprising decision by the Secretary of State for BEIS regarding the Capacity Market auction

An interesting and surprising decision by the Secretary of State for BEIS regarding the Capacity Market auction parameters for the upcoming T-1 auction being held on 15 February. The procurement target has been lifted from 4.5GW (as set in the draft parameters in July 21) to 5.361GW. This is notably...

Low carbon generation

CfD Allocation Round 4 – let the competition begin

2022 is set to hold what could be the largest Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction to date, Allocation Round (AR) 4, with government aiming to secure around 12GW of new renewables through the scheme. It will see the re-introduction of Pot 1 technologies (“established” technologies such as onshore wind and...

Low carbon generation

Here we go again: Capacity Market auctions, what can we expect?

After recently issuing our latest Capacity Market Forecast, we wanted to highlight some of the key trends to look out for regarding the upcoming Capacity Market (CM) auctions being held in February 2022. This round of CM auctions begins with the T-1 for Delivery Year 2022-23 on 15 February followed...

Commercial and market outlook

2021’s most exciting ‘Charts of the week’

Some of our team have looked back throughout 2021 and picked their most exciting 'Chart of the week'. Read about their choices and click through to read the full 'Chart of the week'. To do so, you need a free Cornwall Insight account which is easy to create here. Green...

Commercial and market outlook

Divergent electricity prices in the wake of Brexit

On 1 January 2021, the UK left the European Union (EU) and as such is no longer part of the Internal Energy Market (IEM). While the UK and the EU agreed a post-Brexit Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on 24 December, outlining how energy markets, interconnectors and regulation will be affected,...

Low carbon generation

Mutualisation? Oversupply? Banking? Latest developments in the ROC market

We track the ROC markets closely through our within-year and long-term market forecasts of ROC values and supplier costs. In this blog we provide a view on the latest market developments and our current forecast levels. If you are interested in the Renewables Obligation, or our market forecasts for the...