Posted November 30, 2023

Environmental sustainability is a crucial area of study for the United States. This role requires leadership and oversight of exciting research tackling some of today’s most important topics of conversation, including decarbonization, electric vehicles, energy conservation, and environmental justice.  

As a Principal Consultant, you are the cornerstone of a project team, connecting our energy industry clients (e.g., utilities, government entities, and program administrators) with the internal expertise needed to answer their key research questions. In this role, you will be responsible for project and staff management. This includes leading the design and execution of research and evaluation projects in the energy industry, as well as working closely with our clients to make sure we’re being responsive to their current needs and helping them look ahead to the next set of research questions, challenges and opportunities.  

In this role, you will be responsible for the following on a day-to-day basis: 

• Developing research and evaluation plans that adhere to energy program research and evaluation best practices 
• Overseeing, and contributing to the execution of research plans, ensuring that objectives are achieved, results are accurate, and recommendations are actionable 
• Conducting quality control of work products including surveys, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, and reporting 
• Effectively managing market research and evaluation study project scopes, schedules, and budgets to meet client needs and contract specifications 
• Designing research strategies and methods in collaboration with other team members and functional teams (e.g., data analytics and management, market insights and engineering) 
• Authoring memos, reports and presentations for clients and other external audiences 
• Developing and presenting executive-level results and recommendations 
• Providing training and mentorship to less experienced consulting staff 
• Writing proposals to win new projects 

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Posted November 29, 2023

Summary Description
As our Senior Risk Manager, you'll be a key player in our market monitoring, risk oversight, compliance, and regulatory planning initiatives. You'll collaborate with our Leadership, Power Procurement and Planning & Analytics Teams to analyze and evaluate data for various purposes. Leading SCP's internal Risk Oversight Committee, you will be instrumental in maintaining our risk management policies and documentation.

Qualified candidates must be able to autonomously and creatively explore and develop novel solutions to issues facing SCP as a relatively new kind of load-serving entity (LSE), to allow SCP to meet its core mandates of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to a new climate, while maintaining competitive and stable electric rates, supporting local Sonoma and Mendocino County economic development and meeting SCP’s obligations under various legislative and regulatory mandates (including RPS, RA, IRP, and Energy Storage, among others). This position will work closely with other energy professionals.

Visit www.sonomacleanpower.org to learn more about SCP.

To apply, please email a cover letter, resume, and references as a single PDF to: [email protected].

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• Piclo Max will unlock global electricity market visibility and access, and maximise revenue stacking opportunities for flexibility sellers, from a single place.
• Piclo Max will be rolled out in 2024, initially in the UK, targeting renewables, battery and electric vehicle (EV) operators amongst others.
• The platform has generated significant interest across the UK’s market operators and experienced flex sellers.

Posted November 27, 2023

London, UK, 23 November 2023 – Piclo, the world’s leading flexibility marketplace provider, has today announced its plans to launch a new market access platform, “Piclo Max”, offering sellers and buyers of flexible electricity a one stop shop for all electricity markets globally.

Piclo Max will be rolled out in 2024, starting in the UK, to simplify and unlock broader electricity market access for flexibility service providers. The platform matches sellers of surplus electricity (or flex sellers) to system operators (or flex buyers), enabling an increasingly thriving flexibility market. Piclo Max responds to widespread calls from flex sellers to tackle barriers to market entry and represents a significant step towards a fully flexible electricity system.

CEO of Piclo, James Johnson said: “The launch of Piclo Max will be a crucial step in our mission to decarbonise grids. We are incredibly excited to take electricity and flexibility markets to the next stage, building on our track record in the UK, Europe and the US. We’ve already seen strong commitments from industry leading flex sellers, who, like us, want to make real strides towards a more aligned UK electricity market. Flexibility is a tangible, viable tool for decarbonisation, today. It is a proven tool for efficiently balancing the grid and reducing the cost of future grid reinforcement, globally, delivering immediate value for our customers and wider society.”

Flex buyers or System Operators (SOs) in the UK include National Grid ESO (who is responsible for national system balancing and resolving transmission grid constraints) and six distribution network operators (who are responsible for the last mile of electricity delivery and need access to flexibility to manage bottlenecks on the local grid). Flex sellers typically own and operate ‘distributed’ energy resources – including renewables generation, batteries and EVs – that are capable of responding to SO requests and modifying their electricity generation or consumption accordingly.

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Posted November 21, 2023

BGE is looking for a Principal Energy Acquisition Analyst to join their Energy Acquisition Team.  The successful candidate will:

• Serve as a BGE subject matter expert
• Lead and train other team members on day-to-day responsibilities
• Manage department business processes and systems,
• Identify and implement process and system improvements required for Exelon Utilities to purchase power in the PJM marketplace and deliver energy to retail customers under a restructured retail environment.
• Have management responsibility for the design, testing, implementation, documentation, and ongoing performance of daily operational and financial processes.
• Represent the Energy Acquisition Team on cross-functional teams evaluating or implementing strategic initiatives such as the design of new procurement methodologies and credit policies, and evaluation and implementation of wholesale market structure changes.

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