Analyst South Asia Power and Renewable Research
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About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use):
09TheRole: Analyst South Asia Power and Renewables Research
The Team: Energy-CERA seeks an analyst for power and renewable market research for South Asian countries.
The South Asia Power and Renewable Research group operates within the broader APAC research team which is part of the Global Power team under CERA. The team provides forward-looking market analysis and delivers actionable insights to clients through written reports presentations and direct engagement with clients.
The Impact: This position supports the new and existing research & analysis and power modeling activities. He/she will be responsible to produce accurate timely analytical deliverables and provide valuable market insight and analytics to support our clients. As researcher for South Asia you will be covering content on South Asian power and renewables markets. This includes topics such as policy regulation market reforms trends and forecasts and market modeling. Furthermore the position requires coordinating market insights with the Global Gas and Power team and engaging local clients on relevant topics.
Whats in it for you:
- Opportunity to become an expert on the South Asia power and renewables market
- Develop power modelling capability and know-how
- Exposure to global power markets and renewables technologies while working with bunch of enthusiastic and experienced professionals
- Opportunities to develops tools and processes to improve the business operations
- Work in a friendly environment with a results-oriented team that values learning and performance
- Have company support for learning and growing of new skills
This role offers significant opportunities to enhance your professional expertise and influence in the energy sector.
Responsibilities:
- Lead power market modeling activities in South Asia region using PLEXOS Models (Covering one or more markets from India Bangladesh Sri Lanka and Pakistan)
- Structure model scenarios and sensitivity cases in collaboration with different teams
- Daily/ monthly tracking of power and renewable websites to configure and maintain database for modeling / forecast
- Responsible for publication of data tables and market dashboards for power & renewables for South Asian countries
- Do power project tracking for the South Asia countries (India Pakistan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka)
- Support international team for timely data feeds on the power project database for South Asia region and adhoc support for other regions as and when required
- Work with research team to support on database consolidation and data verification required for research/consulting deliverables
- Maintain and develop large databases around power and renewable markets assets PPAs project performance etc.
- Represent SPGI in events - webinars energy briefings forums seminars/ conferences and ability to build network
What Were Looking For:
Basic Qualifications:
- Graduate/ Post-graduate (Engineering Mathematics Statistics Operational research Energy policy etc.) with less than 3 years of experience.
- Working knowledge of database tools / softwares like Python VBA excel macros etc.
- High critical-thinking skills to evaluate the quality and relevance of the information.
- Comfortable working with large data and large set of numbers
- Good English communication skills with the ability to effectively present forecasts and supporting materials to clients through reports calls emails and live/web-based conferences.
- A commercially driven mindset paired with excellent interpersonal skills for engaging with both internal teams and external clients.
- Outstanding attention to detail ensuring precision in research and deliverables.
- A self-driven individual excellent problem-solving abilities with a demonstrated capacity to perform well under tight deadlines.
- Desirable:
- Knowledge of South Asia power and renewable energy markets with understanding in areas such as power trading market operations data-base creation and policy-analysis.
- Familiarity with complex energy modeling tools like PLEXOS PROMOD IPM MARKAL/TIMES LEAP (the Low Emissions Analysis Platform) GAMS PyPSA Aurora tools etc.
- Familiarity with tools / softwares like MS Access PowerBi snowflake ADW etc.
- Working knowledge of various AI tools for research activities and use of AI prompts to automate repeat tasks.
This role is one of the primary role we need for conducting our PLEXOS modeling and forecasting exercise. This role would take up the ownership of india PLEXOS model - keep it updated and prepare long-term forecasts. this forecast feeds into various deliverables across different teams. The person is also responsible for preparing assumptions and coordinating with different teams to finalize the assumptions.
Further this person also acts as support to our various on-going report/project work. Some of the other key deliverables which will be also be impacted (i) India Power and renewable market profiles (Wholesale market) and (ii) South Asia LCOE assessment for 2 SA countries (India and Sri Lanka).
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