Senior Manager/Manager, Nodal Market and Data Analytics, Grid Strategy & Analytics

Company Summary

Recurrent Energy is one of the world's largest and most geographically diversified utility-scale solar and energy storage project development, ownership, and O&M platforms. It is a subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc. and partially owned by BlackRock. Recurrent Energy is focused on bringing low-cost clean energy and meaningful economic development to communities across the globe.

With a strong track record of originating, developing, financing, and building nearly 9 GWp of solar and 3 GWh of battery storage power plants across six continents, Recurrent Energy has established a leadership position in both solar and battery storage project development. With a total pipeline of 25 GWp in solar and 47 GWh in battery storage, of which 14 GW and 12 GWh respectively already have interconnections (as of January 31, 2023). In addition, Recurrent Energy’s services business has 6 GW of projects under operations and maintenance contracts, either operational or contracted projects.

Position Title:Senior Manager/Manager, Nodal Market and Data Analytics, Grid Strategy & Analytics

Department:Development

Reports To:Associate Director, Grid Strategy & Analytics

Location:Austin, TX (hybrid) or remote

Position Summary

Recurrent Energy is seeking an experienced Senior Manager/Manager, Nodal Market and Data Analytics to join the Grid Strategy & Analytics team. The successful candidate will work on highly technical, quantitative, and analytical initiatives and projects, including, but not limited to, power flow analysis, market simulation, locational marginal price (LMP) analysis, renewable integration studies, and evaluating the impact of market rule changes on these forecasts and analyses. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of nodal market operations, power flow analysis experience, and experience working in the renewable energy industry

Responsibilities

• Provide input to the early-stage development process regarding strategic interconnection siting and interconnection facilities
• Perform and automate power flow study and production cost study
• Develop workflows and internal processes, as well as manage relationships with internal customers and external resources
• Represent Recurrent Energy and actively participate at utility and ISO technical policy stakeholder meetings, working groups, and renewable trade groups.
• Train junior engineers in performing technical studies, reviewing and analyzing utility pre-screen reports, System Impact Studies, and Facility Studies.
• Manage external consultants performing interconnection modeling and studies, develop scopes of work, and review study results

Knowledge & Abilities:

• Deep understanding of transmission system and power flow fundamentals, LMP formation, and relevant sensitivities.
• Demonstrated experience with ISO market operations with respect to LMP modeling and working with optimization models, including detailed knowledge of optimization and quantitative methods and data underlying market simulations, power flow, contingency and congestion analysis, unit commitment, and economic dispatch
• Software knowledge: PROMOD, PowerWorld, TARA, PROMOD, PSS/E, PSLF
• Programming language knowledge: Python
• Knowledge of utility system operation and interconnection process
• Knowledge of renewable project development

Education & Requirements:

• A minimum bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (power system emphasis desired), Mathematics, or related quantitative field with strong preference given to candidates with a solid educational background in power systems analysis 
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in transmission and market simulation modeling or equivalent experience (may consider candidates with less experience at a lower level)
• Professional with a strong work ethic and a positive attitude
• Comfortable in and excited about working in a dynamic organization
• Strong organizational skills enable the candidate to manage many projects simultaneously