C3 Senior Consultant - Energy Markets

About the role

The Energy Markets & Systems Integrated Modeling Team supports developers, operators, and sponsors in integrating new grid-scale and community renewables, storage, and green fuels resources. The team also assists utilities and large load companies in optimizing their long-term power supply strategies. Our models are used by Guidehouse’s clients, renewable and storage players, and utilities for capital investment decisions, business improvement, and grid reliability.

Through wholesale and retail market expertise and modeling capabilities, we forecast energy market conditions across North America, including generating resource additions and retirements, intra-day commercial optimization of assets, and identification of business opportunities and risks. The team maintains an independent view of North American wholesale power markets in its bi-annual Reference Case.

Responsibilities

• Support large and complex client engagements.
• Track and analyze energy market trends.
• Translate clients' inquiries and challenges into actionable scopes of work.
• Compile reports, presentations, and other documents to communicate solutions, strategies, and analysis to clients.
• Develop and use analytical models, programming, and simulations to forecast market prices, conduct research and development, and create tools to improve productivity and accuracy.
• Review and approve model outputs via data collection, manipulation, and analyses, which may involve spreadsheet and database creation and management.
• Develop expertise in ISO/RTO markets across North America, focusing on local energy pricing, capacity auctions, ancillary services, and shifts in load composition and demand response initiatives.
• Become familiar with the economics, policies, and players driving renewables, battery storage development, green fuels, and new power generation technologies.
• Supervise simulations of the future dispatch of the power transmission grid using an economic dispatch model.
• Review the addition/retirement of diverse generating resources using a capacity expansion model across ISO/RTO markets.
• Understand how energy players procure power, integrate renewables, and maintain grid reliability.
• Help develop the Reference Case while expanding the client base.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen or US Permanent Resident due to the nature of client engagements.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, energy finance, or engineering discipline and three (3+) plus years of post-graduation work experience in a related field (e.g., consulting, strategy, project development); or Master's degree in a business, economics, energy finance, or engineering discipline and two (2+) plus years of post-graduation work experience in a related field.
• Post-graduation work experience with economic dispatch models such as Aurora, Origin, PLEXOS, BID3, or PSO.
• 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.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.
• Ability to work in a Guidehouse Office or Client Office location.
• Currently reside in the contiguous United States.

Preferred Qualifications

• Preference will be given to candidates within reasonable driving distance of a core Guidehouse Office or Client Office location.
• Graduate degree (Masters, MBA, PhD) in business, policy, economics, energy finance, or engineering.

Pay

The annual salary range for this position is $89,000.00–$148,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on skill sets, experience, training, security clearances, licensure, certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Basic Life & Supplemental Life
• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Student Loan PayDown
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
• Skills Development & Certifications
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
• Mobility Stipend