Distributed energy resources Analyst

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Job Description

Job Title - DER Analyst

Job Type - 7 Months to begin with

Location - Portland, OR (Two days onsite needed)

Pay Rate - 92.50 $/hr

Summary

Open to Fully remote candidates.Financial Jobs with expertise in Cost Effectiveness Methodologies specific to DERs. Resume to showcase the experience of the DER program

Top 3 Must-Haves (Hard And/or Soft Skills)

• DER Modeling Experience: The worker must possess established experience in distributed energy resource (DER) modeling, including conducting cost-benefit analysis for DERs, with a focus on flexible loads and demand response (DR) programs.
• Utility Sector Knowledge: Strong understanding of utility regulatory environments, utility business operations, and best practices in DER assessment methodologies are essential. This includes familiarity with utility regulatory constructs and associated public processes.
• Analytical and Communication Skills: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills are crucial for assessing cost-effectiveness inputs and methodologies, as well as enhancing DER value assessment practices. Additionally, the worker must have the ability to communicate complex concepts effectively to diverse stakeholders, both internally and externally, to facilitate collaboration and alignment on new methodologies and strategic implementation plans.
  
  

Roles & Responsibilities

CLIENT has actively developed internal processes to design, test, and scale various Distributed Energy Resource (DER) product and program offerings for customers. Currently these offerings fall under the umbrella of Flexible Loads and amount to approximately 95 MW of nominated available capacity for load shift/shed and include typical peak load curtailment Demand Response (DR), more actively managed load shifting as in smart water heaters with CTA-2045 enabled controls, and emerging pilots like residential battery storage.

To-date, CLIENT’s efforts have been significantly centered on curating the customer experience and understanding adoption levers to scale the DR resource, as well as the various internal coordination steps to getting through to approval of IT, Marketing, and other business units necessary to launch and maintain successful customer programs. However, as the resource is growing and integrating more formally with CLIENT’s Power Operations activity, CLIENT seeks to retain qualified consultant(s) to enhance the engineering and technical rigor applied to valuing this aggregate Flex Load resource.

The vision for this role is therefore to help CLIENT’s Distributed Resource Planning (DRP) team in introducing and managing new processes related cost-effectiveness valuation activity. CLIENT has previously explored avenues to refine and enhance its current cost-effectiveness methodologies but has not fully executed on implementation of these identified improvements.