Principal Analyst - Energy Market Analysis

How you can make an impact:

• Lead and oversee projects involving production cost modeling, economic transmission planning, and transmission economic evaluations.
• Serve as the technical lead and subject matter expert for assigned service areas, providing guidance and supervision on study methodologies, assumptions, scenarios, and analytical approaches.
• Interpret modeling results and translate complex technical findings into actionable insights, strategic recommendations, and client-ready reports and presentations.
• Advise utilities, ISOs/RTOs, regulators, and other stakeholders on planning studies, stakeholder processes, and strategic decision-making.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, staffing, quality, and client expectations to ensure successful project delivery.
• Own and continuously improve one or more service offerings by advancing methodologies, workflows, QA/QC procedures, templates, automation tools, and best practices.
• Support proposal development, project scoping, level-of-effort estimates, and technical marketing efforts, including thought leadership and industry engagement activities.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships while identifying opportunities to expand existing services and support business growth.
• Collaborate across disciplines, including transmission planning, reliability, market analysis, and regulatory strategy, to deliver integrated planning solutions.
• Mentor and develop engineers and analysts through technical leadership, coaching, training, and knowledge sharing.

Bring your passion, here's whats needed:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Economics, Energy Systems, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in economic transmission planning, market analysis, resource planning, or system planning within a utility, ISO/RTO, or consulting environment.
• Strong experience with PROMOD or other production cost modeling tools with similar functionality and purpose such as PLEXOS, EnCompass, UPLAN, etc.
• Working knowledge of power flow analysis tools such as PSS4E, TARA, PowerWorld, or equivalent platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to serve as a technical lead and trusted advisor on complex utility planning and market analysis engagements.
• Experience developing study methodologies, defining analytical frameworks, and establishing quality assurance and quality control processes.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor technical staff and build organizational capability through coaching, training, and knowledge sharing.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects while balancing technical quality, schedule, budget, and client expectations.
• Experience supporting proposal development, scope definition, project budgeting, staffing plans, and level-of-effort estimation.
• Recognized expertise in one or more areas such as production cost modeling, resource adequacy, capacity expansion, transmission planning, and integrated system planning.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Lead the Change!

Be a part of an innovative team shaping the grid of the future through advanced energy intelligence. For more than half a century, Electric Power Engineers (EPE) has partnered with power and energy clients across the globe, providing consulting expertise and energy intelligence software solutions for complex engineering and grid modeling challenges. As leaders in the renewables space, we are focused on building a modern, secure, and resilient grid. Join us in making an impact on the communities we serve and the environment in which we live. Together we can transform the future of energy.

How we support you:

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, and vision with 100% premium coverage foryou
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• MyShare Employee Ownership Program
• Work with industry leaders
• 401K, up to a 4% match (100% vested from day 1)

Location: This position will be located in US

Travel: Occasional travel may be needed (10% or less)

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