Distributed energy resources Analyst

Summary
Open to Fully remote candidates.Financial Jobs with expertise in Cost Effectiveness Methodologies specific to DERs. Resume to showcase the experience of the DER program

Top 3 MustHaves (Hard and/or Soft Skills):
1. DER Modeling Experience: The worker must possess established experience in distributed energy resource (DER) modeling including conducting costbenefit analysis for DERs with a focus on flexible loads and demand response (DR) programs.
2. Utility Sector Knowledge: Strong understanding of utility regulatory environments utility business operations and best practices in DER assessment methodologies are essential. This includes familiarity with utility regulatory constructs and associated public processes.
3. Analytical and Communication Skills: Excellent analytical and problemsolving skills are crucial for assessing costeffectiveness inputs and methodologies as well as enhancing DER value assessment practices. Additionally the worker must have the ability to communicate complex concepts effectively to diverse stakeholders both internally and externally to facilitate collaboration and alignment on new methodologies and strategic implementation plans.

Roles & Responsibilities

CLIENT has actively developed internal processes to design test and scale various Distributed Energy Resource (DER) product and program offerings for customers. Currently these offerings fall under the umbrella of Flexible Loads and amount to approximately 95 MW of nominated available capacity for load shift/shed and include typical peak load curtailment Demand Response (DR) more actively managed load shifting as in smart water heaters with CTA2045 enabled controls and emerging pilots like residential battery storage.

Todate CLIENTs efforts have been significantly centered on curating the customer experience and understanding adoption levers to scale the DR resource as well as the various internal coordination steps to getting through to approval of IT Marketing and other business units necessary to launch and maintain successful customer programs. However as the resource is growing and integrating more formally with CLIENTs Power Operations activity CLIENT seeks to retain qualified consultant(s) to enhance the engineering and technical rigor applied to valuing this aggregate Flex Load resource.

The vision for this role is therefore to help CLIENTs Distributed Resource Planning (DRP) team in introducing and managing new processes related costeffectiveness valuation activity. CLIENT has previously explored avenues to refine and enhance its current costeffectiveness methodologies but has not fully executed on implementation of these identified improvements.