Energy Analyst - Global Storage Team

About Private Energy Partners

Private Energy Partners (PEP), a wholly owned affiliate of the Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners (QIP). PEP is established in Australia, UK and the US providing specialist services to QIP and their managed portfolio companies such as greenfield and brownfield project development, project management, construction oversight and supervision, equipment procurement, operations & maintenance, asset management, and origination of new projects, partners and off-taker relationships.

About the role

The Energy Analyst is crucial part of the Private Energy Partners (PEP) Global Storage team, support in fulfilling all the energy modeling needs of QIP and the regional PEP entities. Representative of the diversity of initiatives led by Quinbrook, this position will be exposed to a variety of regions/markets, project business use-cases and counterparts. Some of the projects this role will support include novel energy parks providing green firm power for industrial loads and energy storage applications in deregulated power markets.

Key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Lead the modeling efforts requested by the regional PEP teams on an ongoing basis. This task includes running in-house and commercial energy models and processing the results in an actionable form.

• Act as a liaison between the Global Storage team and regional PEP team on specific projects with energy modeling needs.

• Review of the analyses developed by the regional teams on an ongoing basis. Make recommendations that build on the knowledge accumulated by the Global Storage team over time and across regions

• Present findings on a variety of topics such as LDES technology landscape, LiB cost outlook, market opportunities, to the regional PEP and QIP teams

• Support the continuous development of in-house modeling tools including testing beta versions, providing feedback and suggesting new features to align with business needs

• Support the review of inputs to investment papers on behalf of the Global Storage team

About the ideal candidate:

• General understanding of the utility-scale energy infrastructure project development process and electricity markets, with a focus on Solar and Battery storage systems

• Familiarity with simulation and optimization tools such as HOMER, NREL SAM, or equivalent.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret and model complex data sets, summarize and present large amounts of data/information in a format that is intelligible and actionable for non-experts

• Basic programming and/or scripting skills

• Basic understanding of querying databases using SQL

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and tackling problems that aren’t necessarily well defined. Enjoy and excel at tackling new challenges facing different stakeholders.

• Passionate about driving innovation and committed to accelerating the transition to clean energy.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, Renewable Energy, Environmental Science, Economics, or a related field.

• Proven experience in data analysis

• Product management experience in clean technology or other energy sectors

• Familiarity with project cashflow models

• Proficiency in: Python, Excel, PowerPoint