Senior Research Analyst, Power & Renewables

Wood Mackenzie is the global leader in analytics insights and proprietary data across the entire energy and natural resources landscape.

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The Team

You will be part of Wood Mackenzies APAC Power & Renewables research team. You will work together with a group of experienced analysts across key APAC markets who combine rigorous long-term modelling market intelligence and structured research workflows to support world-class insight generation. The team collaborates closely across geographies and research areas contributing to both market-specific deep-dives and integrated regional views on power and renewables industry.

Main Responsibilities

• Serve as Wood Mackenzies subject-matter expert on APAC solar and BESS markets owning the research coverage and delivering authoritative views on market trends investment dynamics policy developments and long-term outlooks. Primary markets include Australia New Zealand and other developed markets.
• Author Wood Mackenzies high-profile research deliverables including market reports quarterly updates proprietary datasets as well as timely ad-hoc insight pieces responding to market events and client demand.
• Develop and maintain proprietary analytical models and datasets covering solar and BESS deployment capacity forecasts cost trajectories policy frameworks and market economics.
• Work closely with regional Power & Renewables team to formulate holistic integrated views on solar and BESS trends across broader APAC.
• Serve as a trusted thought leader and industry expert and deliver professional presentations at Wood Mackenzie and industry events client briefings and webinars.
• Engage directly with research clients through one-on-one client briefings inquiry response and ongoing dialogue building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders at developers utilities financial institutions and government bodies.
• Collaborate with Wood Mackenzies consulting marketing and commercial teams to amplify research reach through conferences media coverage and joint client engagements.
• Monitor and assess policy regulatory and market rule developments in key markets (and selectively across APAC) for their implications on solar and BESS market evolution.

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About You

• 710 years of relevant experience in the power and renewables sector with a strong preference for candidates with direct exposure to Australia and other APAC power markets.
• Demonstrated expertise in solar and/or BESS market analysis including technology costs project economics grid integration policy mechanisms and competitive dynamics.
• Proven track record of producing high-quality commercially oriented research publications and presenting findings confidently to senior industry and client audiences.
• Experience working with long-term power market forecasting models (e.g. Aurora Plexos or equivalent) and proficiency in data analysis tools including Excel SQL and/or Python would be a plus.
• Strong analytical capabilities with the ability to apply both quantitative and qualitative methods to answer complex market questions.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and capable of producing concise compelling insight pieces and engaging credibly with expert audiences in a client-facing setting.
• A natural intellectual curiosity about the energy transition with the instinct to connect market-level findings to broader technology policy and investment trends across the region.
• Quantitative degree background (e.g. engineering economics finance or related field) preferred.

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