Posted November 4 2024

Position Description
We invite you to join the Customer Energy Solutions' Design Management team of program managers and craft Seattle’s efficient and resilient energy future!

As a Senior Program Manager, you will lead cross-functional teams to develop and implement customer centric energy programs that enable an affordable, clean-energy future for our customers. Work assignments span strategic clean-energy initiatives such as efficiency, demand response, distributed energy resources, and more. You will report to the Energy Management Analyst Supervisor.
 
Seattle City Light, a department of the City of Seattle, is one of the nation’s largest municipally owned utilities in terms of the number of customers served. Over the years we have worked very hard to keep Seattle's electricity affordable, reliable, and environmentally sound. Today, City Light is a recognized national leader in energy efficiency and environmental stewardship.

Job Responsibilities
Here is more about what you’ll be doing:

Design Innovative Programs. Apply design-thinking and customer and contractor engagement tactics through an iterative program life cycle to craft, build, implement and be responsible for the operation of innovative clean-energy programs, ensuring that tools and documentation support efficient and effective program operation and delivery. 

Deliver on Business Objectives. Apply a standard program management framework to align partners and direct cross-functional teams to complete milestones and deliver on program objectives such as crafting a workplan, navigating sophisticated decision-making, handle budget and risk needs, and communicate success.

Manage Stakeholders. Establish and maintain positive working relationships with program stakeholders. Work with peers and leadership to identify resources and overcome barriers. Collaborate across divisions to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in our offerings. Represent City Light at public and professional events, maintaining relationships with industry associates and peer utilities.

Manage Contracts and Consultants: Build and lead consulting contracts to support effective program management. Identify scope of work and navigate purchasing and contracting processes to select, onboard, and coordinate ongoing delivery and invoicing of consulting resources.

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Posted November 3 2024

LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, October 2024 —Edo, a leading provider of demand flexibility solutions, is proud to announce it is a project collaborator in a newly awarded $2 million grant from the California Energy Commission. The project, led by independent, non-profit energy R&D institute EPRI, will utilize community-based virtual power plant (VPP) approaches and advanced energy management systems (EMS) to optimize energy use at two Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) schools.

The Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) program supports California’s clean energy goals by focusing on advancing early-stage clean energy technologies that provide direct benefits to ratepayers by improving grid reliability, lowering costs, and enhancing safety. Edo’s role in the project includes the deployment of its innovative VPP platform, which transforms existing building systems to become grid-interactive, efficient assets capable of responding to real-time grid needs.

The three-year demonstration will showcase the latest advancements in energy management systems and VPPs, focusing on enhancing the interoperability of energy management systems (EMS) and utilizing open-source standards. The project will also aim to significantly reduce energy consumption and effectively manage peak-hour loads during both summer and winter.

The project will focus on two disadvantaged community schools in LAUSD: Maywood High School and Maywood Center for Enriched Studies, encompassing over 285,000 square feet of building space. By using Edo’s innovative VPP technology, the schools will be transformed into grid-interactive buildings, reducing energy use while maintaining occupant comfort.

Edo’s VPP solution includes advanced controls and predictive load management to optimize heating, ventilation, and HVAC systems, and behind-the-meter distributed energy resources (DERs), such as energy storage and electric vehicle (EV) charging. This will allow the schools to contribute to grid stability while maintaining occupant comfort and minimizing costs.

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Posted October 30, 2024

Summary Description
As our Senior Energy Analyst, you'll be a key player in our power supply planning, load forecasting, advanced analytics, and risk management initiatives. You'll develop significant subject matter expertise in SCP’s operations and work independently on projects including model building, portfolio optimization, forecasting, customer energy data analysis & reporting, mapping, and database development. Qualified candidates must be able to autonomously and creatively explore and develop novel solutions to issues facing SCP as a 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.

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].

For full details on the position and directions on how to apply: https://sonomacleanpower.org/job-opportunities.

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Posted October 30, 2024

Position Description
Seattle City Light is seeking a Strategic Advisor II to ensure the utility’s programs, projects, and initiatives are aligned with electrification strategic objectives, with an emphasis on building electrification, clean energy workforce development, and grid readiness policy and partnerships.

Job Responsibilities

Here is more about what you’ll be doing:  

• Align utility programs and initiatives to strategic objectives identified in the utility’s Building Electrification Strategy and the Transportation Electrification Strategic Investment Plan
• Coordinate closely with portfolio managers across the utility to ensure strategies are aligned and moving towards common objectives
• Set and manage operational targets, support program development, and integrate stakeholder feedback on an ongoing basis to identify and implement solutions that meet customer, stakeholder, and business needs
• Seek out, engage, and collaborate with City Light and City departments to support goal development, execution, and change management
• Develop and track appropriate metrics to assist in evaluating program effectiveness and success
• Build and maintain effective relationships and partnerships with community-level organizations, stakeholders, and other agencies
• Oversee and coordinate external funding deployment, including Inflation Reduction Act rebates
• Advise and make recommendations to City Light and City executives as needed
• Manage regulatory and policy issues, including reporting requirements
• Stay abreast of market and technology developments relevant to electrification
• Develop and deliver executive presentations and communicate technical and policy information in a manner accessible for a variety of audiences
• Support strategic and business planning activities related to the Lighting Design Lab’s transition to electrification technologies and workforce development
• Other related duties of a comparable level/type as assigned. 

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