Senior Manager, Transmission Modeling

Job Description

Reporting to the Managing Director, Market Fundamentals & Structuring, this role will lead a team and perform transmission analysis across all US power markets with a focus on congestion and curtailment risk. This work will influence the company’s strategy for project siting and sizing for greenfield development, M&A activities, budgeting, and hedging basis risk for the operating portfolio of wind, solar, and storage assets.

If you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications but see yourself contributing, please submit your resume

What You'll Be Doing

Transmission Modeling & Analysis

• Lead the US-wide effort to perform short and medium-term SCED studies to develop the Company’s internal view on the basis, curtailment, and congestion associated with the Company’s development and operating fleet.
• Support energy optimization/trading team with scenario-based analysis to mitigate market risks via FTRs, DA, or term trading.
• Analyze market impacts due to planned generation, transmission, retirements, and evolving energy market fundamentals to draw inferences and present results in a clear and understandable format to internal stakeholders.
• Provide insights and analysis into congestion and curtailment in support of offtake structures (vPPAs, BESS tolls, etc.).
• Maintain updates to internal production-cost models based on changes to energy market fundamentals like transmission upgrades, new builds, retirements, load, and gas prices.
• Lead and manage engagements with external transmission consultants to develop independent transmission, congestion, and curtailment reports in support of third-party project financing.
• Participate in relevant ISO, RTO, and PUC transmission and planning stakeholder meetings and inform the Company of market developments that may impact system congestion and transmission capacity constraints.

Fundamental Analysis

• Work in conjunction with the fundamental team and other groups within the Company to develop Clearway’s market view and present insights for strategic decision-making.
• Support long-term fundamental market view development by analyzing interconnection queue & IRP, and the resulting new build over the near and medium term.
• Provide an updated view of zonal transfer flow limits based on transmission upgrades and expansion.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree required in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, or related field required.
• 8+ years of experience in an analytical role at a renewable energy developer, ISO, RTO, energy trading firm, or other relevant experience.
• 5+ years of related power systems, electric market design, or energy trading experience.
• 5+ years of experience performing production-cost modeling analyses using Security Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED) software platforms (ex. PLEXOS, Dayzer, PROMOD, UPLAN, or GridView).
• Previous experience leading and developing a team.
• Knowledge of power system and market analysis tools including power flow, contingency analysis, and production-cost modeling.
• Understanding of transmission systems, power flow, congestion, and curtailment.
• Fundamental knowledge of how solar, wind, and battery storage assets operate within the various energy markets.
• Working knowledge of SQL and Python OR another programming language.
• Knowledge of ISO and RTO wholesale market operations and applicable state regulations.
• Working knowledge of the various forms of capacity and ancillary services markets.
• Proven problem-solving and negotiation skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and a high level of attention to detail.
• Ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment.

What Would Be Nice

• Knowledge of interconnection standards and greenfield project development process.
• Working knowledge of PSS/E and power flow analysis.

Clearway will not sponsor nonimmigrant visas for this position (H-1B, TN, E-3, etc.).