Remote within NY State

Some limited travel may be required within NY State

This role will support the execution of the Energy Infrastructure Development Plan modeling work

General Guidance for Expected Years of: Experience: 3-6 years

Primary Responsibilities, and Minimum and Preferred Qualifications

Skills Required

• Experience in electric system modeling.
• Capacity expansion and production cost modeling experience required
• Ability to develop inputs needed to simulate NY electric markets, e.g. infrastructure representation, resource operating profiles
• Understanding of energy markets concepts
• Understanding of NY energy system, stakeholders, and policy environment
• Excellent project management experience and analytic attention to detail
• Ability to communicate modeling results to the public and key stakeholders at agencies, utilities, and interest groups
• Understanding of electric infrastructure options needed to alleviate congestion

Specialized skills 

• Production Cost Modeling Experience
• Capacity Expansion Modeling Experience
• Understanding of issues related to energy markets

Education, Certifications, Degree requirements

• Undergrad required in e.g. economics, energy systems, engineering, policy, or data science
• Masters/PhD is also valuable but not required

IT systems that will be used

• Client SharePoint
• Microsoft Suite

Tasks

• Manage a team of consultants working to develop a nodal production cost model for NYS. This includes managing to timelines and budgets, also ensuring high quality work product

• Working with consultants to accurately represent NY market operations within the production cost model
• Helping to implement a process for translating zonal capacity expansion results into the nodal production cost model
• Engaging with stakeholders at e.g. utilities and sister agencies to socialize tools, processes, and results
• Supporting the execution of the Energy Infrastructure Development Plan
• Supporting other electric system modeling needs for the EIDP process
• Other support for ongoing modeling requests and policy exploration related to the electric system
• Other duties as assigned that contribute to the key outcomes of the Policy, Analysis, & Research team