About the Role
The Energy Markets & Systems Integrated Modeling Team supports developers, operators, and sponsors in integrating new grid-scale and community renewables, storage, and green fuels resources. The team assists utilities and large commercial companies with ESG, decarbonization, and renewable integration efforts by developing and maintaining quantitative market models for client investment decisions, business improvement, and grid reliability. They forecast energy market conditions, resource additions/retirements, and optimize asset operations to identify opportunities and quantify risks.
Responsibilities
- Originating, closing, and leading large and complex client engagements.
- Managing staff and assisting in business development efforts.
- Tracking and analyzing energy market trends.
- Translating client inquiries and challenges into actionable scopes of work.
- Compiling reports, presentations, and other documents to communicate solutions, strategies, and analysis to clients.
- Supporting the day-to-day management of client relationships.
- Developing and using analytical models, programming, and simulations to forecast market prices, conduct research and development, and create tools to improve productivity and accuracy.
- Reviewing and approving model outputs via data collection, manipulation, and analyses, including spreadsheet and database creation and management.
- Being an expert in ISO/RTO markets across North America, including local energy pricing, capacity auctions, ancillary services, and shifts in load composition and demand response initiatives.
- Being intimately familiar with the economics, policies, and players driving renewables, battery storage development, green fuels, and new power generation technologies.
- Supervising simulations of the future dispatch of the power transmission grid using an economic dispatch model.
- Reviewing the addition/retirement of diverse generating resources using a capacity expansion model across ISO/RTO markets.
- Being an expert in how energy players procure power, integrate renewables, and maintain grid reliability.
- Helping develop the Reference Case while expanding the client base.
- Mentoring junior consultants in expanding their individual know-how and business acumen on energy markets, business development, and client management skills.
Requirements
- Must be a US Citizen or US Permanent Resident due to the nature of client engagements.
- Bachelor’s degree in a business, economics, energy finance, or engineering discipline AND Five (5+) plus years of post-graduation work experience in a related field (e.g., consulting, strategy, project development); OR Master's degree in a business, economics, energy finance, or engineering discipline AND Three (3+) plus years of post-graduation work experience in a related field (e.g., consulting, strategy, project development).
- Post-graduation work experience with economic dispatch models such as: Aurora, Origin, PLEXOS, BID3, or PSO.
- Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experienced with data analytics, data modeling, and visualization.
- Proactive and independent work style.
- Ability to assume ownership of significant portions of tasks while collaborating with a close-knit team.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to travel.
- Ability to work in a Guidehouse Office or Client Office location.
- Currently reside in the contiguous United States.
Skills
- ISO/RTO markets
- Renewables
- Battery storage development
- Green fuels
- New power generation technologies
- Economic dispatch models (Aurora, Origin, PLEXOS, BID3, or PSO)
- Data analytics
- Data modeling
- Data visualization
Location
- Guidehouse Office or Client Office location
- Contiguous United States
Work Type
- Up to 25% travel
Experience Level
- Five (5+) plus years of post-graduation work experience
- Three (3+) plus years of post-graduation work experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in a business, economics, energy finance, or engineering discipline
- Master's degree in a business, economics, energy finance, or engineering discipline
- Graduate degree (Masters, MBA, PhD) in business, policy, economics, energy finance, engineering
Salary/Compensations
- $130,000.00-$216,000.00
Benefits
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
- Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
- 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.
- guidehouse.com
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.
