As a member of RAP’s team in Europe, Dominic Scott focuses on the power sector, including demand response, market reform and maximising the potential of the Clean Energy for All Europeans package. He came to RAP with more than a decade of experience in energy and environmental regulation and policy, spanning the public, private and academic sectors.
Before joining RAP in 2021, Scott lectured in energy economics and policy at the University of Reykjavik and provided advice to clients including Icelandic utilities and the Institute of Economic Studies.
Prior to that, he worked for 10 years in the British civil service, in the energy ministry (now the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy), the competition authority (now the Competition and Markets Authority) and the energy regulator Ofgem. His work with the energy regulator included designing and implementing reform of imbalance price formation as well as broader electricity market reform to facilitate participation of demand-side resources.
Dominic Scott earlier worked for Transparency International, a nongovernmental organisation, on a global initiative to promote transparency in targeted sectors.
Scott is an economist with degrees from the London School of Economics and Trinity College Dublin.
How Dominic Scott is Energizing Change
Balancing act – Two-sided contracts for difference for a speedy, cost-efficient and equitable energy transition: A Power System Blueprint deep dive
The European energy sector is facing a triple challenge: ensuring a speedy and cost-efficient rollout of renewables,… Read More +
Capacity markets — six mitigations for six drawbacks: A Power System Blueprint Deep Dive
Over the last 10 years Europe has witnessed the growth of capacity remuneration mechanisms (CRMs) — tools… Read More +
How did you catch the “energy” bug?
I realised in the 2000s that combating climate change would be a defining struggle of my generation, and that my skill set was well-suited to addressing it.
What is something that makes you feel hopeful about the future?
The incredible cost reductions of renewables make me hopeful. I worked on modelling of levelised costs in DECC around 2010, and the change is breath-taking.
When I was 5, I was pretty sure I'd be a Lego engineer when I grew up.