Job Energy Manager,Power Supply,Jobs Geldern Nordrhein-Westfalen,Stellenangebote in Deutschland,Energie,Meta

Location: Geldern

Summary:

Our data centers are the foundation upon which our rapidly scaling infrastructure efficiently delivers our innovative services. Meta’s Energy Team is seeking a commercially-experienced and self-motivated energy professional to help us grow and manage our data center portfolio, ensuring a reliable, cost effective, risk-aware, and sustainable energy supply that meets business capacity planning needs. This role will focus on both regulated and organized electricity markets, as well as the natural gas transactions that increasingly underpin our ability to bring new capacity online addition, this person will help manage electricity and gas regulation, policy, and utility and pipeline relationships for our growing fleet of data centers.

The Energy Manager will support the continued development and execution of Meta’s global energy strategy centered on meeting data center capacity needs of the business – addressing cost, risk, timelines, and energy targets within complex, large scale energy supply transactions. A growing share of that strategy depends on securing firm fuel supply and transportation for gas-fired generation, whether utility-owned, developer-owned, or on-site, and this role will help structure and execute those transactions.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of commercial success with utility negotiations and other energy suppliers/project developers (such as behind-the-meter/on-site generation or bridging-power contract structures), and experience working in both regulated markets like WECC or SERC, and RTO markets like ERCOT or SPP. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of a broader spectrum of energy supply issues including commercial, regulatory, market, technical and financial expertise, including familiarity with natural gas supply, transportation, and storage markets and how gas fundamentals drive power prices and generation economics.

Required Skills:

Energy Manager, Power Supply Responsibilities:

Actively manage commercial relationships for data centers located in a variety of energy markets in the United States, including relationships with utilities, generators, gas pipelines and marketers

Take an active role in regulatory processes and influence rate-making and energy supply solutions offered by utilities, other suppliers, and market operators, including gas transportation tariffs and rate cases where relevant to our supply

Develop and grow relationships with key utility partners, market participants, regulators, policymakers, and other stakeholders

Negotiate and deliver new commercial agreements that enable capacity and create fungible options to allow us to deliver capacities in new and creative ways, spanning electricity, generation, and fuel supply arrangements

Source, negotiate, and execute natural gas supply, transportation, and storage agreements where needed to support data center power supply strategies

Support development of new supply solutions for bridge power, on-site generation, and behind-the-meter projects, including the fuel and transportation arrangements required to make them viable

Evaluate gas market fundamentals and generation economics, including basis, pipeline capacity, and heat rates, and translate them into siting, contracting, and cost of energy recommendations

Partner with legal resources to develop and refine commercial arrangements for existing facilities while managing the structures required to serve our facilities with reliable, cost-effective, sustainable energy

Partner with the Site Selection Team to help identify new locations in the United States that provide the necessary energy requirements for new data centers, including electric and gas infrastructure availability

Interface with internal organizations,…