Engineer, Strategy and Economics; hybrid

Eversource will not offer immigration-related sponsorship for this position (e.g., H-1B, O-1, J-1, TN, E-3, etc.). Applicants requiring visa sponsorship to start employment with Eversource will not be considered.

Eversource is looking for an Engineer, Strategy and Economics to support Transmission
. This position is responsible for supporting the team lead with electricity market simulation modeling, data analysis, and industry research. This includes collaboration with a team of engineers and analysts to provide the most accurate and useful information to inform how electric transmission can best enable the growth of clean energy technologies and meet the aggressive decarbonization goals of the New England states.

This position will have a particular focus performing research and analysis of electricity and emissions data and supporting electric power market forecasting activities. This will require interfacing with internal and external experts to gather data and useful knowledge. This position is responsible for supporting the team lead with electricity market simulation modeling, data analysis, and industry research. This includes collaboration with a team of engineers and analysts to provide the most accurate and useful information to inform how electric transmission can best enable the growth of clean energy technologies and meet the aggressive decarbonization goals of the New England states.

This position will have a particular focus performing research and analysis of electricity and emissions data and supporting electric power market forecasting activities. This will require interfacing with internal and external experts to gather data and useful knowledge.

• Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis of electricity demand, traditional and clean energy resources, consumer cost impacts, power sector emissions trends, and the transmission grid.
• Research, analyze, and document power sector modeling input assumptions and simulation results.
• Support carbon flow modeling software development, testing, and implementation.
• Support implementation of process improvement initiatives related to economic analysis.
• Support other groups within Eversource through research and ad hoc data analysis.
• Track federal and state clean energy policies and transmission development opportunities.
• Develop reports, prepare presentations, write procedures, and perform other activities as needed.

Required Technical Knowledge/

Skills:

• Working knowledge of ISO New England wholesale electricity markets or transmission planning procedures.
• Demonstrates strong analytical skills, ability to apply knowledge to solve problems and strong team building skills.
• Understanding of economic theory and wholesale electricity markets.
• Understanding of state and federal utility industry regulation.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to use Microsoft Suite, including some advanced functions in MS Excel such as lookup functions, pivot tables, power query, etc.

Preferred Technical Knowledge/

Skills:

• Experience with electric production cost modeling tools such as PLEXOS, Gridview, PROMOD, or any software with similar functionality and purpose. If no experience with production cost modeling, experience with power system analysis software such as PSS/E, TARA, Powerworld, ASPEN Oneliner, etc. is preferred.
• Experience with Python, particularly for scraping web data, analyzing, and transforming data, and interfacing with APIs.

Education:

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or the equivalent in combined education and experience is required; preferred Bachelor’s degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering.

Experience:

• Minimum of (3) years related…