Power Market and Technical Diligence Analyst

Huntington National Bank•Denver, CO

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Power Market and Technical Diligence Analyst supports Huntington’s Project Finance & Infrastructure (PFI) team as part of its Technical Diligence and Asset Management team. The role provides technical, operational, commercial, and market analysis for renewable energy debt and tax equity financing, conventional power generation, midstream energy, public-private partnerships (P3), electrical transmission, and monitoring of financed projects. Projects may include solar, battery storage, wind, geothermal, natural gas power generation, LNG facilities, midstream facilities, and P3 projects. The analyst’s assessments inform financing opportunities and investment decisions. The successful candidate performs technical due diligence, evaluates project risks and opportunities, conducts power market assessments, and supports investment decisions across energy infrastructure assets. The role requires knowledge of power generation technologies, energy infrastructure development, wholesale power markets, and market fundamentals, including experience with solar, wind, and natural gas projects and their contracts, construction, production modeling, operations, and independent engineers. The position may be located at any Huntington corporate location. The stated workplace type is office; specific work arrangements are provided by the hiring team. The annual base compensation range is $93,000–$208,000, with eligibility to participate in an applicable incentive compensation plan. The position is exempt from overtime pay.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, Energy Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
At least 5 years of experience in renewable energy, conventional power generation, energy infrastructure, energy consulting, or power market analysis.
Knowledge of power markets, generation dispatch, congestion management, basis risk, and curtailment dynamics.
Experience evaluating conventional and renewable energy projects, LNG facilities, midstream infrastructure, transmission projects, and/or P3 projects.
Experience analyzing independent engineer and market consultant reports.
Experience developing and interpreting power market simulations and dispatch models.
Knowledge of asset valuation, project finance, due diligence, and investment analysis.
Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
Strong organizational and project management skills.
Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively independently and within multidisciplinary teams.
Strong attention to detail, initiative, and commitment to client service.
Intellectual curiosity and desire to continuously learn about energy markets and emerging technologies.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Engineering, Energy Systems, Economics, or a related discipline.
Advanced quantitative and analytical modeling skills.
Understanding of U.S. wholesale power markets, market design, transmission systems, resource adequacy, and generation economics.
Experience with power market simulation and forecasting tools such as PROMOD®, PLEXOS®, Aurora®, PSLF®, or similar platforms.
Experience conducting basis, congestion, and SCED analysis, congestion studies, capacity market assessments, and price curve development.

Responsibilities

Perform quantitative, economic, and technical analyses of U.S. power markets using commercial market models, proprietary tools, and large datasets.
Analyze third-party market consultant assumptions and forecasts, including Security-Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED) studies and simulations.
Conduct nodal and basis risk analyses and congestion and curtailment assessments.
Perform scenario and sensitivity analyses involving fuel prices, load forecasts, generation buildouts, transmission upgrades, policy changes, and capacity market conditions.
Develop independent market views to support investment recommendations.
Assess project feasibility and technical risks, including project design, technologies, energy production, construction, operations and maintenance, contracts, environmental considerations, and estimated useful life.
Provide practical and commercially reasonable solutions to technical and market-related challenges.
Assist in negotiating financing agreements from technical, operational, and market-risk perspectives.
Support development of downside, upside, and stress-case scenarios.
Manage relationships with independent engineers, market consultants, technical advisors, and industry experts.
Monitor the performance of financed projects across renewable, conventional, LNG, midstream, transmission, and infrastructure sectors against underwriting assumptions.
Maintain technical, operational, and market performance databases.
Monitor and report on production, availability, outages, congestion, basis exposure, curtailment levels, and market revenues.
Participate in regular client meetings regarding project operations and performance.