Senior Consultant, Regulatory Economics

Overview

Daymark Energy Advisors is a successful, growing consultancy. We are building our team to support clients' growing needs and are looking for experienced energy industry professionals with expertise in one or more key areas listed below to help lead Daymark's next chapter of growth. This role will lead the delivery of consulting engagements, working with our dynamic team of analysts, consultants, and trusted advisors to provide advice and analysis to clients across the U.S. and Canada.

Salary range for this position is $130,000 - $175,000 depending upon experience and qualifications.

Daymark brings deep knowledge and an integrated view of energy infrastructure, regulation, and markets to help our clients succeed in the face of transformative power industry change. We combine rigorous analytical methodology with our knowledge of RTO/ISO operations and market rules, transmission planning, state, provincial, and federal policies, and regulatory and rate structures, to provide comprehensive solutions that address client needs.

We work in partnership with developers, utilities, large loads, and state agencies, applying cutting edge thinking to decarbonize the power sector.

If you have a passion for the energy industry, want to work in partnership with clients and colleagues across our team, and are a high performer with a history of professional excellence and achievement, you'll find Daymark Energy Advisors offers a challenging and rewarding environment in which to further your career. We cultivate an inclusive and affirming environment that supports professional growth and rewards entrepreneurial risk taking.

Ideal candidates will have a desire to work in a team-oriented environment along with having experience of being part of and leading teams.

Daymark Energy Advisors is part of the Xodus Group.

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.

We invite applications from power industry professionals with experience in one or more of the following areas of expertise:

• 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…