Silicon Valley Clean Energy seeks a new Principal Power Analyst

SVCE is seeking to hire a full-time Principal Power Analyst (“Analyst”) who, under the general direction of the Director of Power Resources, supports efforts related to power portfolio planning, energy risk management, rate development, custom product offerings for large customers, and load analytics and forecasting. The Power Resources department (“Front Office”) is responsible for supplier and resource origination, meeting all wholesale energy needs, portfolio risk management, asset and portfolio optimization, settlements and compliance. The Analyst shall work with other members of the Front Office and independently on a range of complex strategic, administrative and analytical projects and tasks. The ideal candidate must possess experience with energy data analytics, energy trading and risk management and should have experience with industry standard modeling and simulation software packages.

• The ideal candidate should have strong analytical skills, knowledge of energy fundamentals and wholesale energy markets, risk management and accounting concepts (cost to serve load), forecasting, and ability to manage large sets of data. The Analyst will provide lead analytical support to the Front Office, with the following responsibilities:
• Design, program, modify, and operate systems for measuring, monitoring, and reporting financial risk from power supply
• Calculating Value at Risk, Mark to Market, Gross Margin at Risk, PPA valuation, and other risk
• Evaluate, recommend and support procurement of deal trade capture and/or enterprise systems to manage supply contracts from origination to
• Support/lead efforts to develop systems/processes to implement new renewable resources and ensure optimization of resources in wholesale energy
• Support/lead integrated resource planning, modeling and implementation
• Create and maintain various supply and demand-side models to support key forecasting, procurement and programmatic initiatives and/or compliance requirements including energy hedges, resource adequacy, carbon-free and
• Lead and support internal analysis and modeling of innovative rate design for new SVCE offerings or new program
• Provide internal technical analyses to assess impact of programs and policies on SVCE’s operations.
• Write staff reports and presentations for Board and Committee