Production Cost Modeling Specialist - PLEXOS Energy Modeling Software

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Credits and provides complex and multidisciplinary analysis to support resource planning activities.
• Presents clear, concise, and accurate reports to consultants, managers, executives, and regulators.
• Maintains and executes computer models that support major resource decisions and strategies including resource procurement, resource operations, resource retirements and integrated resource plans.
• Prepares and communicates written summary resource modeling inputs and results.
• Completes ad-hoc fundamental market analysis in support of resource investment, resource acquisition, and structured commercial transaction opportunities.
• Participate in meetings and proceedings with stakeholders requiring technical input and the representation of modeling assumptions and analysis.
• Provides regulatory support on behalf of the Company.
• Prepares written testimony in support of regulatory filings and provides responses to data requests used to support resource planning activities.
• Participates as expert witness in regulatory proceedings.
• Complete industry research and identify major trends to be included in future regulatory filings.
• Participates in workshops and interprets and explains results of analyses to other team members, management and external stakeholders.
• Covers compliance aspects of position and understands and complies with all policies, codes and regulations applicable to position and company.

Skills and Certifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 8-12 years of related experience in utility production cost modeling, energy supply fundamentals and regional market behaviors.
• Have performed production cost modeling for an electric utility.
• Have evaluated/troubleshot the results of electric utility production cost modeling.
• Experience of resource planning for an electric utility.
• Variety of modeling, analytical, statistical, monitoring, or reporting software.

Other Functional Skills

• Generation, transmission, gas transportation, wholesale power markets, environmental regulation.
• Quantitative, Project Management, Planning, Presentation, Interpersonal organization skills.