Clean Energy Manager

Role Overview

The Distributed Generation Strategy Manager will lead the Company's strategy, policy, and regulatory work related to DG interconnection. You will bring together internal experts and external partners, including customers and developers, aggregators, DPS Staff, NYSERDA, Joint Utilities Interconnection Policy Working Group (IPWG), and other stakeholders to evolve policies and technical standards to expand integration of DG into Con Edisons grid, improve interconnection processes, DG customer service offerings, and data transparency and hosting-capacity guidance, and expand the Company's support for FERC Order 2222 market participation.

Your work will turn customer and operational insights, government and policy priorities, and stakeholder feedback into changes that make interconnection easier and expand progress towards DG goals.

Responsibilities

• Lead collaboration with stakeholders to advance policy and standards

• Work with internal and external stakeholders to develop and evaluate proposals and implementation plans to expand integration of DG into the grid, and lead development of financial and other models to understand business models and inform tariff and program design.

• Manage consensus building internally

• Work cross-functionally with your Operations counterpart in DG, partners in Distributed Engineering, Energy Services, Customer Operations, related teams such as E-Mobility, and leadership across all groups.

• Manage constructive stakeholder engagement with customers and developers, aggregators, Department of Public Service (DPS) Staff, NYSERDA, Joint Utilities (JU) Interconnection Policy Working Group (IPWG), and other stakeholders; turn feedback into actionable updates to procedures, settings, and specs.

• Manage a Strategy team of individual contributors that will support each of these efforts, coaching through challenges, developing their skills, and managing their performance.

• Turn analysis into outcomes to improve processes

• Study interconnection trends and pain points and recommend policy/process fixes that reduce rework and uncertainty to improve utility processes and the SIR so customers experience clearer steps and faster decisions.

• Support market participation

• Help with design of process for telemetry/control and distribution reliability needs for FERC Order 2222 so DG aggregations can participate while the local grid stays reliable.

• Lead monitoring of DG market demand and trends along with program performance to inform program strategy and customer services, while supporting the improvement of data and tools enhancements to PowerClerk integrations, maps, and guidance to help customers site and design projects more effectively.

• Lead development of regulatory filings

• Prepare DPS filings, guidance documents, and customer-facing resources that make requirements straightforward and consistent, and represent the Company at industry conferences and meetings with external stakeholders related to the development of DER projects.

• Collaborate with customer management team on customer experience improvements, end-to-end coordinate changes across teams so improvements on paper translate into better timelines and fewer surprises for customers.

• Ensure that safe work practices are followed, and the environment is fully protected in accordance with Company policy and governmental regulations.

Qualifications

• Education/Experience: Bachelor's Degree and Five years of relevant experience including energy policy, regulatory strategy, stakeholder engagement, or related analytical roles or Master's Degree and two years of relevant experience including energy policy, regulatory strategy, stakeholder engagement, or related analytical roles

• Preferred Education/Experience: Master's Degree in business administration, sustainability, data science, or other related technical, business or energy focus and two years of relevant experience including energy policy, regulatory strategy, stakeholder engagement, or related analytical roles

• Relevant Work Experience: Demonstrated ability to analyze and synthesize data into business insights and effectively communicate the information in oral and written deliverables, required. Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite (i.e. Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project), required. Ability to make decisions in real-time, under pressure, required. Intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm for learning new skills, required. Strong presentation and writing skills, required. Ability to deal with ambiguity and comfortable working in a dynamic environment, required. Two years of specific experience in utility DG programs, including work with utility DG program strategy, forecasting and reporting, preferred. Demonstrated ability to prioritize, analyze and solve complex strategic and tactical opportunities, preferred. Proven experience developing analytical tools leveraging techniques which may include statistics, predictive models, and/or machine learning, preferred. Knowledge of distributed generation and/or clean energy programs and technologies, preferred. Knowledge of national and New York State clean energy policy a plus, preferred. Experience analyzing or managing program performance and/or pipelines, preferred. Demonstrated organizational skills, and the ability to see the big picture while maintaining attention to detail, preferred. Experience working with diverse teams to align stakeholders around business solutions, and coach and work with these stakeholders through the implementation to drive business results, preferred. Demonstrated success in support of clean energy programs, preferred. Understanding of New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) participation models and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Order 2222 frameworks, preferred. Working knowledge of Standard Interconnection Requirements (SIR), Public Service Commission (PSC) orders, JU/ITWG guidance; familiarity with Cost-Sharing 2.0 and Utility Process governance, preferred. Tools & data: familiarity with Con Edison software platforms; skills in SQL/Python/Power BI/Tableau helpful for concise visualizations, preferred. Customer-centric mindset with examples of simplifying requirements and improving transparency, preferred.

• Additional Physical Demands: The selected candidate will be assigned a System Emergency Assignment (i.e., an emergency response role) and will be expected to work non-business hours during emergencies, which may include nights, weekends, and holidays.