Daniel Serrano Pascual

With over 16 years experience, Daniel specialises in energy systems operation, modelling and regulation, with a focus on wholesale energy markets and transmission systems. He has developed various software tools, including expansion planning of electricity generation and transmission systems, long-mid-short-term hydro/thermal dispatch models and power-to-x optimisation tools. He led the analytics practice at a previous company where state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and business intelligence tools were developed and utilised to provide data-based products. In Ricardo he has led the development of the SPARK tool, an optimization tool that calculates the optimal investment pathways required to achieve the decarbonisation targets of ports, airports, cities, green corridors or industrial hubs. 

Daniel has extensive experience working on diverse projects within the energy markets, providing regulatory, economic, and financial assessments to private clients (including independent power producers (IPPs) and leading utilities from Europe, Russia, Asia and the Middle East), international financial institutions (IFIs) and governments. He has guided numerous leading utilities in developing long term strategic plans for their gas and electricity generation business, encompassing thermal, hydro and renewable power plant portfolios. Daniel has cultivated substantial international experience in his field, having worked in more than 25 countries worldwide. 

Throughout his career, Daniel has collaborated on projects concerning the decarbonisation of the energy sector, providing strategic planning for renewable energy integration and energy hubs. He brings over a decade of expertise in developing and utilising planning tools and their applications for integrating renewables, including a benchmark study of such tools for the World Bank. 

Daniel holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in engineering from Pontificia Comillas University (ICAI) in Madrid, where he was recognised with academic scholarships in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Systems. He also earned a Master of Liberal Arts in extension studies, with a focus on finance, from Harvard University and a Master of Science in business analytics and big data from IE University.