Managing Consultant- Energy Markets & Systems Integrated Modeling

Job Posting

What You Will Do:
The Energy Markets & Systems Integrated Modeling Team’s work supports developers, operators and sponsors bring in new grid-scale and community renewable, storage and green fuels resources and assists utilities and large commercial companies in their ESG, decarbonization and renewable integration efforts.

Our team develops and maintains a suite of quantitative market models that Guidehouse’s clients, renewable and storage players, and utilities depend on for capital investment decisions, business improvement and grid reliability. Through our wholesale and retail market expertise and modeling capabilities, we forecast energy market conditions across North America, along with generating resource additions and retirements, intra-day commercial optimization of assets using different market instruments, in an effort to identify business opportunities and quantify business risks. The team maintains its independent view of North American wholesale power markets in its bi-annual Reference Case.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Support client engagement activities.

• Tracking and analyzing energy market trends.

• Compiling reports, presentations, and other documents to communicate solutions, strategies, and analysis to clients.

• Supporting and assisting in client relationship development as needed.

• Developing and using analytical models, programming, and simulations to forecast market prices, conduct research and development, and create tools to improve productivity and accuracy.

• Building and validating model outputs via data collection, manipulation, and analyses, which may involve spreadsheet and database creation and management. 

On our team you’ll:

• Leverage your expertise and knowledge of ISO/RTO markets across North America, local energy pricing, capacity auctions, ancillary services and shifts in load composition and demand response initiatives.

• Be intimately familiar with the economics, policies and players driving renewables, battery storage development, green fuels and new power generation technologies.

• Run simulations of the future dispatch of the power transmission grid using an economic dispatch model.

• Review the addition/retirement of diverse generating resources using a capacity expansion model across ISO/RTO markets.

• Become an expert in how energy players procure power, integrate renewables, and maintain grid reliability.

• Support and assist in the develop of our Reference Case.

• Mentor junior consultants in expanding their individual know-how and business acumen on energy markets, business development and client management skills.

What You Will Need:

• Must be a US Citizen or US Permanent Resident due to nature of client engagements.

• Managing Consultant-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).

• Associate Director-Bachelor’s degree in a business, economics, energy finance, or engineering discipline AND Seven (7+) 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 Five (5+) 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.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Preference will be given to candidates within reasonable driving distance of a core Guidehouse Office.

• Graduate degree (Masters, MBA, PhD) in business, policy, economics, energy finance, engineering.

• Experience in generation and storage asset management.

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