Solar Provider Group

Interconnection Strategy Lead

Solar Provider Group

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Illinois • United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Python

About the role

  • Lead integration of battery energy storage with solar projects or standalone battery energy storage, including understanding and quantifying the business case.
  • Develop value propositions by understanding financial incentive programs in key target markets focusing on BESS.
  • Identify regions within utility territories with available hosting capacity and favorable queue conditions for generation and BESS, coupled or standalone.
  • Perform load flow and injection studies and complex analyses on distribution and potentially transmission networks.
  • Understand project financing models as a means to inform the impacts of interconnection costs and/or design changes on the financial viability of a project.
  • Build relationships and liaise with utilities to develop creative solutions and secure favorable access to the grid.
  • Review pre-applications and advise the project development and land acquisition teams regarding interconnection viability at prospective sites.
  • Suggest flexible interconnection arrangements to utilities/grid operators (e.g. curtailment) and enable larger capacity project development with less expensive upgrades.

Requirements

  • 5 –10 years’ experience with distribution-level interconnection for solar and BESS.
  • University degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related field.
  • MBA is a plus.
  • Familiarity with utility interconnection procedures in MISO, PJM, ISO-NE and other regions and FERC.
  • Experience working with publicly owned utilities, investor-owned utilities, independent system operators, regional transmission operators, load-serving entities, local distribution companies, public utility commissions, and regulatory bodies in the United States is preferable.
  • Proficiency with grid modeling and simulation tools (e.g., CYME, PSCAD, PowerFactory, or similar).
  • Strong Excel skills; experience with financial models for PV and BESS and data analysis tools such as Python or Power BI is a plus.
Benefits
  • Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
  • Accessibility accommodations provided in accordance with applicable laws
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
battery energy storage systems (BESS)financial modelingload flow analysisinjection studiesinterconnection cost analysisproject financing modelsdata analysisgrid modelingsimulation toolsquantitative analysis
Soft Skills
relationship buildingcommunicationproblem-solvingcreative solutionscollaboration
Certifications
MBA