Managing Consultant-Energy Markets
Job Family: Power Systems Engineering Consulting. Travel Required: Up to 25%. Clearance Required: None.
About the role
The Energy Markets & Systems Integrated Modeling Team’s work supports developers, operators and sponsors to bring in new grid‑scale and community renewables, storage and green fuels resources. The team assists utilities and large commercial companies in their ESG, decarbonization and renewable integration efforts. It develops and maintains a suite of quantitative market models that Guidehouse’s clients, renewable and storage players, and utilities depend on for capital investment decisions, business improvement and grid reliability. Through wholesale and retail market expertise and modeling capabilities, the team forecasts energy market conditions across North America, along with generating resource additions and retirements, intra‑day commercial optimization of assets using different market instruments, in an effort to identify business opportunities and quantify business risks. The team maintains its independent view of North American wholesale power markets in its bi‑annual Reference Case.
Responsibilities
- Originating, closing, leading large and complex client engagements.
- Managing staff and assisting in related business development efforts.
- Tracking and analyzing energy market trends.
- Translating clients' inquiries and challenges into actionable scopes of work.
- Compiling reports, presentations, and other documents to communicate solutions, strategies, and analysis to clients.
- Supporting the day‑to‑day management of client relationships.
- Developing and using analytical models, programming, and simulations to forecast market prices, conduct research and development, and create tools to improve productivity and accuracy.
- Reviewing and approving model outputs via data collection, manipulation, and analyses, which may involve spreadsheet and database creation and management.
- Being an expert in ISO/RTO markets across North America, at the crossroads of local energy pricing, capacity auctions, ancillary services and shifts in load composition and demand response initiatives.
- Being intimately familiar with the economics, policies and players driving renewables, battery storage development, green fuels and new power generation technologies.
- Supervising simulations of the future dispatch of the power transmission grid using an economic dispatch model.
- Reviewing the addition/retirement of diverse