Senior Consultant, Regulatory Economics

Role:

We seek an energetic team‑oriented person with expertise in energy infrastructure planning, policies, and/or economics to join our firm. You will work closely with Daymark’s dynamic team of analysts, consultants, trusted advisors, and practice area leads to deliver advice and analysis to clients, including developers, utilities, large loads, and state agencies across the U.S. and Canada, helping them evaluate options and navigate the technical, economic, and commercial issues that characterize today’s rapidly evolving power sector.

Energy infrastructure planning and cost‑benefit analysis
, with focus on Integrated Resource Planning

Experience performing utility integrated resource planning; exposure to issues involving load forecasting, generation resource selection, transmission and distribution investment options, distributed demand‑side resources

Experience designing and implementing cost‑benefit analyses that articulate, quantify, and forecast infrastructure benefits within the context of changing market conditions, policy landscapes, and reliability constraints

Experience evaluating renewables and the interconnection and market integration of renewables

Experience establishing decision criteria and designing and implementing optimal selection frameworks

Experience reviewing the integrity of resource acquisition through public/private procurement

Experience designing and/or administering competitive resource procurements (evaluating alternative resources and regulatory requirements, designing request for proposals documents and processes, evaluating bids received by clients, advising on markets and energy supply)

Clean energy and renewable policies
, with focus on impacts and implications of policies on commercial opportunities, including state, provincial, and regional renewable portfolio standards and other programs, legislative activity, etc.

Experience evaluating impacts of FERC policies and evolving transmission planning and interconnection policies on opportunities for deployment and development of energy infrastructure like renewable energy, energy storage, and power transmission

Understanding of FERC market design policies, organized RTO/ISO structures, and OTC opportunities across regions along with potential impact on clients' business

Understanding of federal, provincial, and state laws related to energy development and power industry, incentives, loans and subsidies available for renewables, electrification, hydrogen hubs, transmission

Utility economics
, with focus on cost recovery policies, equity, regulatory policy, cost allocation, rate structures

Experience with utility economics, policies, and analyzing the implications of utility tariff and cost allocation approaches using appropriate models

Experience analyzing and implementing utility rate designs, revenue requirements, and cost of service models and policy

Experience applying skills to problems characterized by structural changes, evolving legal and regulatory requirements, cost uncertainty, and changing customer preferences -- interest in value‑based pricing versus historical structures, blurring market lines, evolving set of competitively provided services

Experience designing and reviewing programs such as critical peak pricing and net metering

Ability to apply skills to find new approaches to customer segmentation to address policy changes and cost shifts or new allocation strategies

Ability to help clients negotiate with utilities on electricity tariff structures that are fundamentally sound and meet those clients’ strategic objectives

Economics
, with focus on cost benefit analysis, economic modeling, macro‑economics, and labor market dynamics

Experience analyzing macro‑economic variables and estimating discount rates

Experience analyzing the generation and/or transmission sector supply chain and labor market

Experience assessing societal impacts including environmental justice and energy justice

Regulatory finance
, with focus on (regulatory) cost accounting and asset management

Regulatory finance and accounting experience performing tariff analysis, assessing and modeling capital structure, debt…