Senior Consultant, Regulatory Economics

Daymark Energy Advisors is a successful, growing consultancy focused on energy infrastructure, regulation, and markets to help clients succeed in a transforming power sector.

We are seeking experienced energy industry professionals to lead consulting engagements and manage projects across the U.S. and Canada. The salary range for this position is $130,000 – $175,000 depending on experience and qualifications.

Daymark is part of the Xodus Group and is headquartered in Worcester, Massachusetts. We offer flexible work arrangements (remote, hybrid, or office) and our team is located throughout the United States and Canada.

• Energy infrastructure planning and cost‑benefit analysis, with focus on Integrated Resource Planning
  • Experience performing utility integrated resource planning; exposure to 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
  • Experience evaluating impacts of FERC policies and evolving transmission planning and interconnection policies on opportunities for deployment and development of energy infrastructure such as 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, and transmission.
• Utility economics, with focus on cost recovery policies, equity, regulatory policy, cost allocation, and 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 their 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 analysis, discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis,…