Director of Power Supply Planning

CLIENT PROFILE

LIPA was established in 1986 as a corporate municipal instrumentality of the State of New York under the Long Island Power Authority Act (the LIPA Act). In 1998, the Authority became the retail supplier of electric service in most of Nassau and Suffolk Counties and the Rockaway Peninsula of Queens by acquiring the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO). LIPA's assets currently consist of a transmission and distribution system that is used to serve approximately 1.4 million customers in an approximately 1,230 square mile service territory.

Service:
Our work is service. Everything we do is for the benefit of our customers.

• Filter all our actions and decisions through the lens of putting our customers first.
• Demonstrate high ethical standards.

• Everyone knows the plan, the status, and the areas we need to work on together.
• Communicate fiercely. Be open, honest, candid, and transparent. No surprises.
• Assume positive intent. We are all here to perform and grow.
• Bring a “find-the-way” attitude to the problem.
• Respect, listen, help, and appreciate each other.
• Give and seek constructive feedback often. Feedback is our fuel.
• Have fun — enjoy the journey and each other

• Be accountable. Deliver on your responsibilities and commitments.
• Expect the unexpected and expect to deal with it.
• Facts and data support our conclusions.
• Make clarity your responsibility. If you aren’t clear, ask questions.
• Work with purpose. Know why we do what we do.
• Do great work. Never settle. If there is a better way, find it.

The Director of Power Supply Planning is responsible for fulfilling LIPA’s purpose of clean, reliable, and affordable electric service for our customers in Long Island and the Rockaways by reviewing, monitoring, and assessing power supply planning, including long-range power procurement, renewal of power purchase agreements, long-term generation plans and oversight of the management of power supply contracts, to ensure the Service Provider is abiding by the standards established in the Operations Service Agreement (OSA).

• The Service Providers’ performance within Contract Standards
• The evaluation of on-going and proposed new programs and initiatives, management and administration of the power supply portfolio, proposed power supply contracts and other major decisions, including their consistency with the Board’s policies, and analytical support of LIPA’s participation in wholesale markets and regulatory processes
• The monitoring of progress in accordance with approved plans and goals
• Overseeing the operations conducted by PSEG ER&T to ensure cost-effective procurement of fuel and purchases and sales of power. This Director shall also be a model of promoting LIPA’s corporate values of Responsiveness, Excellence, Integrity, Stewardship, Sustainability and Teamwork while managing the responsibilities of the position and leading the Power Supply team.

• Reviews and assesses the Service Provider’s long-range power supply and resource planning process, including the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) and plans for resource procurement, to ensure clean, reliable, and affordable power in accordance with the policies of the Board of Trustees and governmental authorities.
• Oversees long-range power procurement and reviews Service Provider’s issuance of requests for proposals (RFPs), monitors the evaluation and selection of proposals, makes recommendations to LIPA senior management on the acceptability of proposals and contracts, and prepares documents to submit to the New York State Office of State Comptroller for power purchase agreement approval.
• Reviews and provides policy guidance to the Service Provider on its negotiation and administration of Power Purchase Agreements and other contractual arrangements.
• Works with legal teams on litigation, arbitration, disputes and property arrangements with contractual counter parties.
• Reports to LIPA executive management on significant power supply-related activities carried out by the…