Power Grid Engineer
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Overview
NRDC is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization. We use law science and the support of 3.1 million members and online activists to protect the planets wildlife and wild places and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air clean water and healthy communities. NRDC was founded in 1970 and our people helped write some of Americas bedrock environmental laws including the Clean Water Act and many of the implementing regulations. Today our team of more than 700 lawyers scientists economists policy advocates communications experts and others work across the United States and the globe from our offices in Beijing; Chicago; New Delhi; New York; San Francisco; Santa Monica; and Washington D.C.
Position Summary
NRDC is seeking a Power Grid Engineer to work with the Sustainable FERC Project (FERC Project) team in the Climate & Energy Department in our Washington New York or Chicago offices. The successful candidate is an expert in the field of power systems and electrical engineering and can serve as a mentor and advisor on power systems issues for FERC Project colleagues and others at NRDC. This person will lead initiatives with the scope of responsibilities outlined below and has the ability to communicate complex ideas anticipate potential objections and persuade others to adopt a different point of view.
The Power Grid Engineer will participate in and represent the interests of the FERC Project and NRDC at regional transmission organizations (RTOs) and other grid planning regions likely with an early focus in PJM Midcontinent Independent System Operator andSouthwestPower Pool. They willrepresentNRDC and the Sustainable FERC Project in relevant RTO stakeholder forums andwork closely with other members of the Sustainable FERC Project other NRDC staff and the Sustainable FERC Project coalition. They also will engage as circumstances require with federal and state energy regulators. This person will report to the RTO Director in the FERC Project and work closely with the FERC Project team. They will analyze transmission planning scenarios assumptions sensitivities and other inputs into the planning process and help to identify the regional and interregional transmission plans and projects necessary to advance NRDCs power sector goals. This person would also support our efforts to deploy advanced transmission technologies (e.g. high performance/advanced superefficient conductors dynamic line rating technology phase angle regulators) and apply smart from the start planning approaches to prioritize existing infrastructure corridors and minimize community and environmental impacts.
The position you are applying for is part of the bargaining unit represented by The Washington Baltimore News Guild (WBNG / The NewsguildCWA Local 32035).
Responsibilities
- Participate in and represent the interests of NRDC in RTO stakeholder forums addressing regional and interregional transmission planning and interconnection issues with the goal of improving transmission planning assumptions processes and outcomes.
- Provide input to grid planners for power flow model assumptions for load demand capacity generation shift and other variables.
- Analyze to what extent interregional transmission projects can better meet system needs than separate sets of regional projects.
- Identify opportunities and advocate for grid planners to integrate the use of advanced conductors highvoltage direct current lines gridenhancing technologies reuse of existing rightsofway and integration of distributed energy resources into their system plans wherever feasible including but not limited to meeting nearterm system needs as regional and interregional grids are being built out.
- Critique RTO analyses of plants designated as reliability mustrun units.
- Identify consolidated transmission solutions that are more cost effective than those identified via siloed RTO transmission planning processes such as reliability planning economic planning and interconnection planning and develop approaches for planning methods and processes to ensure RTOs look for such consolidated solutions as well.
- Develop technical justifications for RTOs to identify the most costeffective transmission solutions and ensure transmission additions are in the public interest.
- Help to identify benefit metrics to reflect the value that transmission and nonwires solutions bring to customers and offer methodologies and provide analysis to monetize these benefits.
- Work with NRDC staff and FERC Project coalition members to provide written input to grid planners and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on planning cost allocation and interconnection queue issues.
- Engage with federal and state energy regulators to advance objectives.
- Perform or direct technical analysis necessary to educate decisionmakers.
- Effectively articulate and communicate technical information both verbally and in writing to diverse audiences.
Qualifications
- BS or advanced degree in mechanical or electrical engineering or related concentration.
- Minimum of ten years or relevant work experience. Prior utility or government experience is desirable.
- At least two years of experience in transmission system planning and operations including complex power flow short circuit and stability studies.
- Experience in quantitative and qualitative analysis.
- Proficiency in relevant technical transmission system modeling approaches (e.g. capacity expansion production cost and power flow analysis) and tools (e.g. PLEXOS) including relevant open source models.
- Interest in understanding and applying power market dynamics and economics considerations to transmission planning processes and solutions.
- Ability to approach problems from an advocates perspective and develop engineeringbased solutions to those problems.
- Ability to understand and critique power flow analysis and transient stability analysis.
- Ability to analyze information formulate responses and convey them in writing and through oral presentations.
- Ability to build relationships effectively collaborate and engender trust from peers and colleagues.
- Demonstrate good judgment strong work ethic collegiality.
- Ability to travel approximately 20% annually (more travel is likely early in the candidates employment as they become familiar with RTO stakeholder forums.)
- Commitment to NRDCs mission values and DEI principles.
NRDC is committed to advancing diversity equity and inclusion both in our work and in our workplace. We believe that celebrating and actively welcoming diverse voices and perspectives is essential to solving the planets most pressing environmental problems and we encourage applications from candidates whose identities have been historically underrepresented in the environmental movement.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race color religion gender gender identity or expression marital status sexual orientation national origin citizenship age disability veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
NRDC operates under a hybrid work model. Employees are required to come to the office 8 days per month.
As a sciencebased organization NRDC aims to do our part to help contain the COVID19 public health crisis. For the sake of health safety and equity we ask that people be vaccinated unless they have an approved medical or religious accommodation or other exemption in accordance with state and local law. We consider a person to be vaccinated two weeks after receiving one full course of a CDCapproved vaccine. In accordance with state or local law new hires will be asked to attest to vaccination those wishing to do so may request medical or religious accommodations or other exemptions via NRDC Employee Relations. NRDC treats all vaccinerelated data confidentially in keeping with local state and federal laws.
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