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Ava Community Energy Job Opportunity: Distributed Energy Resource Associate

Ava Community


Posted February 2, 2024

Position Summary
Ava is seeking to hire a full-time Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) Associate, focused on DERs reporting to the Sr. Manager of Programs. Ava is looking for candidates who support the deployment of DERs as well as their coordinated management via distributed energy management software (DERMS) to make the best use of local, renewable energy. This is an exciting opportunity to increase local renewable energy use, improve energy resilience, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Position Details
Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The Distributed Energy Resources Associate will engage with programs that maximize the benefit from local renewable energy generation in two primary program areas: 1) operationalize Ava’s DERMS to optimally manage local, renewable DERs to benefit Ava customers and 2) incentivize the adoption of solar and storage in Ava’s service. Key tasks for these areas include:

  • Manage and collaborate with Ava’s DERMS provider to ensure that DERMS operations result in the greatest benefit for Ava customers through activities such as:

  • Develop timelines, manage deliverables, and coordinate execution with internal and external stakeholders, such as in the following ways:

  • Draft Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for third-party vendor services that support the implementation of programs, with collaboration with Programs and other relevant Ava teams; propose and seek input on RFP objectives and evaluation criteria; manage vendor RFP response and contracting

  • Manage third-party vendor contracts, ensuring tasks and deliverables are met on budget, evaluate vendor effectiveness and quality of work, and vocalize the need for corrective actions when needed

  • Document and disseminate program results to external stakeholders through reports, presentations, conferences, and meetings  

  • Draft Board memos and resolutions 

  • Provide input to program budgets 

  • Other duties as required

CLICK HERE to read the full job description and apply.

 

 

LUMIN’S SMART ELECTRICAL PANEL SELECTED BY SUNNOVA TO SUPERCHARGE ITS SOLAR AND STORAGE OFFERING

Lumin

Lumin Smart Panel integration provides Sunnova Adaptive Home™ customers with whole-home backup, extended battery life, and energy savings through intelligent load management.

Posted January 30, 2024

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE) - Lumin, the pioneer and leading provider of responsive energy management solutions, today announced a collaboration with Sunnova Energy International, Inc. (“Sunnova”) (NYSE: NOVA), an adaptive energy services company, to integrate the Lumin Smart Panel and its intelligent energy management platform into the Sunnova Adaptive Home™ offering. The Lumin Smart Panel will be available to tens of thousands of homeowners through Sunnova’s extensive dealer network starting in Q1 2024. The Lumin Smart Panel will also be installed in Sunnova’s new Adaptive Technology Center (ATC), which is comprised of state-of-the-art energy testing and integration technologies, opening in Q1 2024.

The Sunnova Adaptive Home™ combines solar power, battery storage, and smart energy management to make clean energy even more affordable, reliable, and resilient. By integrating the Lumin Smart Panel into the Adaptive Home offering and its energy management software into the Sunnova app, Sunnova provides its customers with superior comfort, insight, and control over their energy usage.

Lumin’s Control What MattersTM load management approach and hardware-agnostic platform provide the Sunnova Adaptive Home™ with a scalable and highly cost-effective tool for advancing home electrification. While typical home battery systems are limited to backing up only a few circuits, Adaptive Homes powered by Lumin Smart panels provide homeowners access to all circuits through responsive load management, enabling and extending whole-home backup. By dynamically managing loads to stay below the customer’s power threshold, the Lumin Smart Panel gives homeowners access to the circuits that matter to them. It enables longer battery life during a power outage and intelligently responds to user preferences and environmental conditions. Features include setting circuit schedules and limits based on time-of-use rates, net metering policies, and demand charges to optimize energy use and save homeowners money on utility bills.

“Lumin’s smart energy management platform is a well-designed combination of performance, compatibility, and affordability that aligns with Sunnova’s commitment to powering energy independence,” said Michael Grasso, Chief Revenue Officer at Sunnova. “Integrating Lumin into our Sunnova Adaptive Home™ offering expands the options for consumers and dealers to ensure energy goals are achieved in the home. We look forward to growing our collaboration to deliver the highest-value home energy experience to our customers.”

CLICK HERE to read the full press release.

 

 

EnergyHub Job Opportunity: Senior DevOps Engineer - DevSecOps

EnergyHub


Posted January 19, 2024

EnergyHub empowers utilities and their customers to create a clean, distributed energy future. We help consumers turn their smart thermostats, EVs, batteries, and other products into virtual power plants that keep the grid stable and enable higher penetration of solar and wind power.

We're looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with a security/DevSecOps focus to join the DevOps team and help enhance the security of our infrastructure and software development lifecycle. This role will be hands-on with our cloud infrastructure and development toolchain, and you will get to focus on implementation to drive meaningful long-term improvements. You will have the opportunity to guide best practices for the entire EnergyHub engineering team and build and automate processes to enable fast and secure application delivery.

What You’ll Do

  • Keep raising the bar for EnergyHub’s infrastructure security to ensure customer data remains protected.
  • Enable our engineering team to be highly productive, safely. Make it easy to do things the right way.
  • Help guide the team in design and implementation of secure cloud infrastructure as we roll out improvements and new features.
  • Identify and implement new controls to enhance our defense in depth.
  • “Shift left” on application and container security by moving security testing farther upstream in the delivery process.
  • Operate and automate our vulnerability management programs for applications, containers, and VMs.
  • Manage core security tools and technologies such as SIEM, cloud security posture management, etc.
  • Participate in cross-company security and compliance management efforts in which DevOps plays a key role.
  • Partner with our parent security team (EnergyHub is an independent subsidiary of Alarm.com) to leverage additional tools and resources and capitalize on our collective strengths.
  • Other duties as assigned

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EnergyHub Job Opportunity: Sales Executive - West

EnergyHub


Posted January 19, 2024

EnergyHub empowers utilities and their customers to create a clean, distributed energy future. We help consumers turn their smart thermostats, EVs, batteries, and other products into virtual power plants that keep the grid stable and enable higher penetration of solar and wind power.

Are you a Sales Executive with experience working in the utility markets and passion for the clean energy field? EnergyHub has an opportunity available for you to join our expanding sales team. You will play a critical role and help grow our DERMS (Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems) business by initiating, developing, and building lasting relationships with utility customers. Our Sales Executives succeed by demonstrating domain expertise, thought leadership, and command of the sales process, developing strong relationships to build a robust pipeline and meet sales targets.

Main Responsibilities

  • Sell the company’s DERMS software and services to utilities in western North America (southwest, CAISO, ERCOT, mountain west, pacific northwest and western Canada)
  • Develop trusting relationships with clients and prospects 
  • Build and manage a robust sales pipeline, communicating progress and results while moving opportunities forward 
  • Provide utility prospects with business cases that support the value of EnergyHub’s offerings
  • Develop compelling proposals that position EnergyHub for success in utility RFP processes
  • Work closely with utilities to understand current and future market needs and identify new business opportunities
  • Collaborate with the sales, product and marketing teams to ensure that EnergyHub is building the right products and delivering the right messages to the market
  • Represent EnergyHub at conferences, trade shows, and industry events
  • Other duties as assigned

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Virtual Peaker and Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority Forge Strategic Partnership for Energy-Saving Demand Response Program

Virtual Peaker

This new initiative harnesses Virtual Peaker’s cutting-edge distributed energy platform, empowering OMPA’s 42 municipally owned utilities to offer residential electric customers new energy-saving opportunities.

Posted January 19, 2024

January 18, 2024; Louisville, KY – Virtual Peaker, a cloud-based SaaS company empowering modern utilities with the friendliest distributed energy platform on the planet, announced a strategic partnership with the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority (OMPA) to launch Turn Down the Watts, a new bring-your-own-device (BYOD) thermostat program to help reduce energy consumption during periods of high demand.

OMPA is a collaborative organization that serves as a wholesale power provider, supporting 42 municipally owned electric utilities in Oklahoma. Its members serve roughly 104,000 residential electric meters. OMPA’s structure and mission are centered around community ownership, joint action, and ensuring the well-being of its member municipalities and their residents.

Through this partnership with Virtual Peaker, OMPA’s 42 municipally owned utilities will be able to offer their residential electric customers the opportunity to enroll and participate in the program and earn incentives designed to support energy-saving practices and reduce overall utility system costs during peak grid demand periods.

Virtual Peaker’s distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) suite, Shift, and its engagement suite, Relay, are central to the program. Shift offers utilities innovative technology with a patented cloud-based real-time control system that automatically adds intelligence to “smart” devices to shave peak load, reduce costs, and execute controlled or behavioral demand response programs. Relay is an automated customer engagement suite that unifies and personalizes the energy customer experience with a connected approach to managing distributed energy resources (DERs).

“We are thrilled to collaborate with the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority on this innovative program. By providing municipally owned utilities and residential electric customers with the opportunity to save energy through qualifying smart thermostats, we empower them to positively impact both their energy bills and the environment,” said Colin Lamb, Vice President of Delivery, Virtual Peaker.

CLICK HERE to read the full press release.

 

 
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