Senior Consultant, Regulatory Economics

Xodus Group•Worcester, MA

6h•$130,000 - $175,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Daymark Energy Advisors is a growing consultancy seeking experienced energy industry professionals to support client needs. This role involves leading consulting engagements and providing advice and analysis to clients across the U.S. and Canada. Daymark offers expertise in energy infrastructure, regulation, and markets, combining analytical methodology with knowledge of RTO/ISO operations, market rules, transmission planning, policy, and regulatory structures. The company works with developers, utilities, large loads, and state agencies to decarbonize the power sector. Daymark fosters an inclusive and affirming environment that supports professional growth and rewards entrepreneurial risk-taking. The ideal candidate will have a passion for the energy industry, a desire to work collaboratively, and a history of professional excellence. Daymark Energy Advisors is part of the Xodus Group.

Requirements

Expertise in energy infrastructure planning, policies, and/or economics.
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).
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.
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.
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 and accounting experience performing tariff analysis, assessing and modeling capital structure, debt analysis, discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, ROE, and calculating revenue requirements.
Bachelor’s degree required.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in law, economics, finance, or another related field.

Responsibilities

Provide expert advice to address client needs, lead client engagements, and build consulting team’s skill set.
Work with cross-functional teams on integrated infrastructure, regulatory, and market projects.
Project management and project oversight responsibilities for projects ranging in size and complexity.
Business development responsibilities, including working in teams to develop relationships, networks, and proposals for consulting projects.
A hands-on approach with a can-do attitude along with an overriding curiosity and desire to help others succeed in a team environment.
Ability to communicate at all levels in the organization and externally with clients, both verbal and written.
A commitment to constructively engaging together to solve problems and continuously improving through thoughtful, respectful, and direct information and feedback.
Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and influence decision-making processes.
Analytical skills, sound judgment, creative problem solving, and commercial awareness.
Broad familiarity with the matters most impacting investment risk, affordability, and reliability; such matters include FERC wholesale market and transmission policies, retail markets and state or provincial jurisdictional resource planning and cost recovery, environmental and siting issues.
An understanding of the relevant existing federal, state, and provincial energy regulations and policies and the demonstrated ability to analyze and advise clients regarding the impacts of proposed regulations and policies.