Senior Consultant - Power Markets & Community Solar Modeling

Senior Consultant, Power Markets and Modeling Team

Guidehouse's Power Markets and Modeling Team supports utilities, developers, investors, policymakers, and corporate energy buyers in navigating the evolving energy landscape. Our work spans wholesale electricity markets, transmission and distribution planning, distributed energy resources (DERs), and community solar programs, helping clients make informed investment, planning, and policy decisions in support of grid reliability, affordability, and decarbonization goals.

We are seeking a Senior Consultant with a unique combination of expertise in wholesale power market analysis and modeling and community solar market development and strategy. The ideal candidate understands how distributed energy resources—including community solar, distributed storage, and flexible demand—interact with wholesale market dynamics, transmission and distribution systems, and utility planning processes. This individual can clearly articulate how community solar deployment affects load growth, capacity needs, congestion patterns, resource adequacy, wholesale market prices, and long-term system planning.

As part of Guidehouse's Power Markets and Modeling Team, you will support a wide range of client engagements, including wholesale market forecasting, resource planning, community solar market assessments, DER valuation, transmission planning studies, and integrated grid strategy development.

Key responsibilities:

• Conduct wholesale power market analysis using production cost, economic dispatch, and capacity expansion models such as Power Systems Optimizer (PSO) or similar tools.
• Develop long-term forecasts of energy, capacity, ancillary service, and renewable energy credit markets across North American ISO/RTO regions.
• Develop long-term forecasts of retail supply, community solar credits, and state-level SRECs across multiple state programs.
• Evaluate the impacts of community solar, distributed generation, energy storage, electrification, and demand-side resources on wholesale market outcomes and utility planning.
• Analyze resource additions and retirements, transmission constraints, congestion patterns, and reliability considerations across regional power systems.
• Support community solar market assessments, including program design, subscriber economics, policy analysis, market sizing, and financial valuation.
• Quantify the value streams available to distributed and utility-scale resources across retail and wholesale markets.
• Perform integrated analyses that connect distribution-level resource adoption with bulk power system planning and market operations.
• Support transmission planning, interconnection, and grid integration studies related to renewable energy and distributed resource deployment.
• Develop analytical tools, databases, and visualization products to improve modeling efficiency and communicate complex findings.
• Translate client challenges into actionable scopes of work and analytical frameworks.
• Prepare reports, presentations, and client-ready deliverables that communicate technical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support project management activities, including work planning, quality assurance, budget tracking, and client communications.
• Contribute to business development efforts, proposal development, and thought leadership initiatives.
• Mentor junior consultants and support their technical and professional development.

On our team you'll:

• Serve as a subject matter expert at the intersection of wholesale power markets, distributed energy resources, and community solar.
• Analyze how local resource adoption influences regional market outcomes, including energy pricing, capacity procurement, congestion, and reliability.
• Work with utilities, developers, investors, regulators, and corporate clients on some of the industry's most complex energy transition challenges.
• Support Guidehouse's market outlooks and Reference Case development while helping expand our client base.
• Collaborate with experts across power markets, transmission planning, distribution systems, utility strategy, and clean energy policy.
• Help shape the future of renewable energy integration, grid…