Senior Consultant - Power Markets

Job Family:

Sustainability Consulting

Travel Required:

Up to 25%

Clearance Required:

None

What You Will Do:

The Wholesale Markets & Analysis Team’s work supports investors bringing in new grid-scale and community renewable and storage resources and helps utilities in their decarbonization and renewable integration efforts.

Our team develops and maintains a suite of quantitative market models that Guidehouse’s key clients, renewable and storage developers, and utilities depend on for capital investment decisions and grid reliability. Through our wholesale market expertise and modeling capabilities, we forecast energy prices across Europe and North America, along with generating resource additions and retirements, hourly optimization of assets across different price/revenue streams, and more.

On our team you will:

• Be an expert in European Power Markets, with knowledge ranging from Locational Marginal Pricing, to capacity auctions and ancillary services.

• Be intimately familiar with the economics and policies driving renewable and battery storage development across Europe.

• Run simulations of the operation of the electric grid using a production-cost model.

• Forecast the addition/retirement of generating resources using a capacity expansion model

• Be an expert in how utilities procure power, integrate renewables, and maintain reliability.

• Help us develop our Reference Case and make it even more valuable for our clients.
  

Senior Consultants support project teams both at client sites and internally. Responsibilities will include client management, solution implementation and generation of project results. As a Senior Consultant on the Wholesale Market Analysis team, a key function of your role will be to create and present quality deliverables that support essential project workstreams.  You will gather and analyze data, identify gaps and trends, and make recommendations related to baseline performance and structure, as well as established best practices and benchmarks.

Responsibilities include:

• Tracking and analyzing energy market trends

• 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 managing work plans, staffing, deadlines, and budgets for multiple complex projects simultaneously

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

• Performing data collection, manipulation, and analyses, which may involve spreadsheet and database creation and management

• The ability to assume complete ownership of significant projects is essential.

What You Will Need:

• Bachelors degree in business, policy, environmental, economics, finance, engineering, science and/or related discipline AND 3-5 years of relevant industry or consulting experience excluding internships/co-ops

• 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

• Demonstrated proficiency with researching, spreadsheets, databases, word processing, and slide presentation software.

• Ability to travel as required

• No sponsorship available for this position

• The successful candidate must not be subject to employment restrictions from a former employer (such as a non-compete) that would prevent the candidate from performing the job responsibilities as described

• The salary range for this role may vary based on relevant degree, work experience and physical location at time of hire

• Level of hire will be determined through Guidehouse interviewing process

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Masters Degree in business, policy, environmental, economics, finance, engineering, science and/or related discipline

• Experience with PLEXOS Energy Modelling Software, R, Python

• Experience with wholesale energy markets or renewable/storage finance

• Experience modeling energy prices or capacity expansion (Production Cost Modelling)

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

About Guidehouse
Guidehouse is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

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