What is an Energy Efficiency Evaluation Analyst?

An Energy Efficiency Evaluation Analyst supports the New York Energy Efficiency programs available to our customers in the Mid-Hudson Valley region. Analysts are responsible for the planning, implementation and evaluation of energy efficiency and demand response programs including compilation and analysis of important program metrics and reporting to key stakeholders. Additionally, Analysts are responsible for energy savings calculations and other technical computations. Title/level is commensurate with experience.  

What does an Energy Efficiency Evaluation Analyst do?

• Analyzes data, assesses energy efficiency & demand response implementation processes, and oversees quality assurance protocols and procedures

• Researches new cost-effective measures and program enhancements to offer to customers and conducts cost-effectiveness analyses to assist in the planning of energy efficiency programs

• Performs energy computations including the ongoing evaluation of methodologies within the New York State Technical Resource Manual

• Oversees process, impact, baseline, potential, market saturation, and other related studies

• Tracks monthly expenditures and savings for all energy efficiency programs

• Forecasts and tracks Earnings Adjustment Mechanism potential

• Collaborates with the Joint Utilities and NYSERDA on statewide evaluations and benefit cost analyses

• Provides support to develop budgets for all proposed energy efficiency programs to ensure management has access to up to date and accurate information 

• Participates in measure reviews as an active member of the New York State Technical Resource Manual Management Committee

• Supports the day-to-day relationship with contract or external service providers including negotiation, interpretation, and application of established contractual agreements and/or service level agreements to ensure adherence to standards and best outcomes for Central Hudson

• Participates in regulatory efforts related to pre-approval filings, shareholder incentive filings, results reporting, etc. including participation in technical sessions, hearings, and preparing responses to information requests

• Develops regulatory filings such as the System Energy Efficiency Plan through interaction with program implementation group and represents the company's position throughout the regulatory process

• Assists with pre-approval filings, program design, implementation/operations, evaluation efforts, reporting, and regulatory oversight

• Represents Central Hudson at community events

• Supports storm/emergency restoration efforts
  
  

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DERMS, Customer Engagement, & Forecasting Suites Provide Unified, End-to-End DER Approach for Modern Utilities

Louisville, KY – Virtual Peaker, a cloud-based SaaS company that empowers modern utilities with the friendliest distributed energy platform on the planet, has expanded its platform to include Customer Engagement and Forecasting suites of products in addition to its leading DERMS suite. This suites-based approach allows utilities to customize and scale their SaaS solutions to gain greater value from distributed energy resources. 

Virtual Peaker is known as an international leader creating distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS) that help utilities seamlessly manage their distributed energy resources, including rooftop solar, wind, residential battery storage, and electric vehicles (EVs). As these renewable sources become more common, utilities are increasingly seeing the value of utilizing software that can manage and unify the end-to-end lifecycle of these DERs.  

“The energy industry is constantly changing and evolving, so utilities are searching for software options among a plethora of complex and disparate choices. Virtual Peaker’s new product suite approach highlights the surge we’re experiencing with utilities that see DERMS as critical to their success, but also understand that they need a scalable and unified solution to manage all aspects of DER program management,” said William (Bill) Burke, the founder, and CEO of Virtual Peaker. “We expect that the transition to suites will dramatically impact how our utility clients scale and manage their DER programs to deliver renewable energy that ultimately leads to a more sustainable planet.”

The three core suites are grouped thematically into independent stacks, each with a base set of functionality plus additional services loaded on top. This allows DERMS to be decoupled from the other functions and offers tiered levels (e.g., Basic, Professional, and Enterprise. Virtual Peaker’s three suites are:

• Shift, the DERMS Suite – Device Enrollment and Control, Baselining, Time-of-Use (TOU) Optimization (and coming soon!) virtual power plants (VPP)
• Relay, the Customer Engagement Suite – Seamless customer engagement features to drive program enrollment and adoption
• Envision, the Forecasting Suite – Load forecasting made easy with custom reporting, predictive, and real-time data.

Utilities including CoServ, the second-largest electric cooperative in Texas, already are gravitating to Virtual Peaker’s flexible, scalable suites-based approach.

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Shifted Energy (Shifted) is a venture funded, Hawaii-based technology startup working to advance renewable energy integration by managing behind the meter energy loads such as water heaters, thermostats, and EV chargers. Shiftedʻs platform, Grid Maestro, aggregates Internet connected controllers using patent pending software to provide advanced energy management services to electrical grid operators. Shifted operates projects in Hawaii, multiple U.S. cities, and several countries. Shifted operates in the fast growing Demand Response industry providing modern energy services that will be required on nearly every electrical grid worldwide.

This position will lead core parts of Shiftedʻs cloud applications in AWS. Shifted's systems, Grid Maestro, manages large data sets and comprises multiple applications that manage these data sets for use in the Demand Response industry. This includes machine learning based forecasting, advanced analytics such as leak detection from electrical telemetry, custom control strategies that balance end user comfort with maximum energy shifting potential, renewable energy optimization such as managing loads to optimally coincide with available wind resources, and API integrations with a large number of partners. Shiftedʻs stack is a modern AWS Serverless system.

Ideal Qualifications:

• 1-2 years of experience implementing and administering AWS serverless and non-serverless services including Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, and CloudFormation, StepFunctions, Infrastructure as Code (SAM), etc.
• Hands-on experience implementing monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and metrics reporting.
• Experienced in support processes, runbook management, adhering to SLA's, and issue resolution/management.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, OS, Networking, problem solving, and performance tuning.
• Experience with one or more scripting languages like Python, Bash/Shell, or PowerShell. NodeJS is a plus. Experience with Git/GitHub required.
• OpenAPI Specification experience
• Docker / Container experience
• Data Science / Machine Learning fundamental knowledge is a plus
• Strong technical documentation skills.
• Evaluate new application, infrastructure and cloud decisions in an existing context of applications, infrastructure, standards, current business strategy and future business strategy.
• Able to work around changing product requirements
• Ensure security is integrated into all architecture solutions.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment with minimal supervision.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
• AWS Solutions Architect - Associate Certification or equivalent

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