Our client has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Consultant (Eastern Markets) in the Planning & Advisory team. The Senior Consultant will provide client guidance with an emphasis on eastern power markets, regulatory and market design oversight.
Location - remote, anywhere in the US
Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage projects from initiation to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and meet the required scope and quality
- Work directly with clients (G&T cooperatives, muni's, developers, IPPs) regarding eastern regulatory and market design issues (PJM, MISO, SPP are the most important)
- Lead and support resource adequacy capacity market design and policy development across the U.S.
- Prepare and/or review regulatory filings in energy-related administrative proceedings before regulatory agencies
- Review, analyze, and report on filings of other parties in energy-related administrative proceedings before regulatory agencies
- Carry out policy and economic analysis to support regulatory and legislative advocacy
- Provide assessments of market fundamentals, analyze changing landscape of market design in power markets, provide insight into changing market rules and impact to client critical planning functions
- Summarize analysis results for client management teams and seek peer review of material to support delivery of high-quality client-specific projects
- Actively track stakeholder developments across markets with support of existing staff
- Develop relationships with existing clients and help facilitate ongoing needs as a client liaison
Experience and Skills:
Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics, economics, or other energy industry-related fields. Master's degree preferred.
- Minimum 11 years of analytical and modeling experience in one or more structured power markets (e.g. CAISO, ERCOT, MISO, ISO-NE, NYISO, PJM, SPP, etc.). Familiarity with one or more of the power markets within the Eastern Interconnection preferred (PJM, MISO, SPP) including practices, procedures, and protocols.
- May directly manage one or more employees.
- Experience in RTOs analyzing congestion, ARR/FTRs, resource adequacy requirements, capacity market design and pricing, and / or RPS requirements.
- Experience with the assessment and analytical interpretation of regulatory and legislative rule-making advancements and their associated impacts on utility operations and/or costs preferred
- Knowledge of resource planning/IRP, production cost modeling, electricity generation, transmission, distribution and infrastructure a plus
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in a team environment, with strong communication skills.
- Up to 25% travel to client sites and to attend industry meetings.
