Public Utilities Specialist (Rates

Public Utilities Specialist (Rates)

This position is located in Portland, OR which boasts huge spans of amazing trees, foliage, landscape, and everywhere you look you can appreciate beautiful greenery! It is known as the most bike-friendly city in America, has a train system that greets you at the airport spanning across the city, and is home to the Portland International Rose Garden, the oldest in the country!

Portland is the one place where you will find lively festivals, energetic music, mouthwatering food, and for you basketball fans, the Portland Trail Blazers are a 7 minute walk from the HQs building! There is always something new to experience in this eco-friendly town! As a Public Utilities Specialist (Rates), you will:

• Serve as a technical expert responsible for conceptualizing, planning, coordinating, managing, calculating, executing, and reporting the critical work performed by the technical and analytical teams that support and determine BPA's Cost of Service and related rate directives, as encompassed in BPA's formal hearing process.
• Participate and lead teams within Power Services, as well as cross-BPA teams, that develop, evaluate, and recommend Cost of Service rate policies, including the 7(b) 2 Rate Test Study pursuant to section 7(b) of the Northwest Power Act, industrial margin studies pursuant to section 7(c) of the Northwest Power Act, allocation of costs pursuant to section 7(f) and 7(g) of the Northwest Power Act to BPA and non-BPA executive level management.
• Provide technical expertise to cross-BPA teams that perform product and rate design, revenue requirement studies, load and resource forecasts, electric and natural gas price forecasts, residential exchange average system cost determinations pursuant to section 5(c) of the Northwest Power Act, risk mitigation strategies and rate provisions, transfer services, and transmission rate development.
• Communicate technical or policy issues or concerns with executive level decision-makers, legal, financial and other internal parts of BPA.
• Serve as an expert witness on rate case panels for clarification and cross-examination of testimony and studies.
• Lead, coordinate, and participate on teams to prepare studies, reports, presentations, memoranda, briefing papers, and other written materials for internal policy making use or for outside publication, including rate case documents, rate analyses, or other rate studies.