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About the Role

Guidehouse's Power Markets and Modeling Team supports utilities, developers, investors, policymakers, and corporate energy buyers in navigating the evolving energy landscape. Our work spans wholesale electricity markets, transmission and distribution planning, distributed energy resources (DERs), and community solar programs, helping clients make informed investment, planning, and policy decisions in support of grid reliability, affordability, and decarbonization goals. We are seeking a Senior Consultant with expertise in wholesale power market analysis and modeling, and community solar market development and strategy. The ideal candidate understands how distributed energy resources interact with wholesale market dynamics, transmission and distribution systems, and utility planning processes.

Responsibilities

Conduct wholesale power market analysis using production cost, economic dispatch, and capacity expansion models.
Develop long-term forecasts of energy, capacity, ancillary service, and renewable energy credit markets.
Develop long-term forecasts of retail supply, community solar credits, and state-level SRECs.
Evaluate the impacts of community solar, distributed generation, energy storage, electrification, and demand-side resources on wholesale market outcomes and utility planning.
Analyze resource additions and retirements, transmission constraints, congestion patterns, and reliability considerations.
Support community solar market assessments, including program design, subscriber economics, policy analysis, market sizing, and financial valuation.
Quantify the value streams available to distributed and utility-scale resources across retail and wholesale markets.
Perform integrated analyses connecting distribution-level resource adoption with bulk power system planning and market operations.
Support transmission planning, interconnection, and grid integration studies related to renewable energy and distributed resource deployment.
Develop analytical tools, databases, and visualization products.
Translate client challenges into actionable scopes of work and analytical frameworks.
Prepare reports, presentations, and client-ready deliverables.
Support project management activities, including work planning, quality assurance, budget tracking, and client communications.
Contribute to business development efforts, proposal development, and thought leadership initiatives.
Mentor junior consultants and support their technical and professional development.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. Permanent Resident.
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Economics, Energy Finance, Public Policy, Business, or a related discipline and 3+ years of relevant professional experience; or Master's degree and 1+ years of relevant professional experience.
Professional experience conducting wholesale power market analysis using economic dispatch, production cost, or capacity expansion models.
Demonstrated experience analyzing ISO/RTO markets, including energy, capacity, and ancillary services markets.
Experience with community solar, distributed generation, DER strategy, renewable energy development, utility planning, or clean energy policy.
Understanding of the relationship between distributed energy resources and bulk power system operations, planning, and market outcomes.
Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills.
Experience with data analytics, data management, and visualization.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to manage multiple priorities while working independently and collaboratively.
Ability to travel as required.
Ability to work in a Guidehouse office or client office location.
Currently reside in the contiguous United States.

Skills

Wholesale power market analysis
Production cost modeling
Economic dispatch modeling
Capacity expansion modeling
Power Systems Optimizer (PSO)
Community solar market development
Community solar market strategy
Distributed energy resources (DERs)
Wholesale market dynamics
Transmission and distribution planning
Utility planning processes
Data analytics
Data management
Data visualization
FERC
NERC
State regulatory frameworks
Community solar program design
Python
R
SQL
VBA

Location

Guidehouse office or client office location
Contiguous United States

Work Type

Up to 25% travel

Experience Level

Senior Consultant
3+ years of relevant professional experience (Bachelor's degree)
1+ years of relevant professional experience (Master's degree)

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Economics, Energy Finance, Public Policy, Business, or a related discipline
Master's degree

Salary/Compensations

$89,000.00-$148,000.00

Benefits

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Basic Life & Supplemental Life
Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
Student Loan PayDown
Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
Skills Development & Certifications
Employee Referral Program
Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
Mobility Stipend

About the Company

Guidehouse is a global AI-led professional services firm delivering advisory, technology, and managed services to the commercial and government sectors.
With an integrated business technology approach, Guidehouse drives efficiency and resilience in the healthcare, financial services, energy, infrastructure, and national security markets.
Built to help clients across industries outwit complexity, the firm brings together approximately 18,000 professionals to achieve lasting impact and shape a meaningful future.
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Equal Opportunity

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.
Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.