Renewable Energy - Sr. Nodal Advisory Consultant

Hitachi•Atlanta, GA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Enhance Hitachi Energy's strategic consulting capabilities within the renewable developer community with best practice consulting advice. Establish client contacts at a senior level (e.g. Managing or Technical Director), and work with customers at a strategic level and coach them. Provide insight to Hitachi Energy product managers for software tool improvements and roadmaps for client use in best practices and valuable reports. Support consulting projects of high complexity, including: model renewable assets, energy storage, and hybrid and/or colocated resources. Develop Nodal Simulation Ready Date updates each year. Support PROMOD related modeling tasks for Zonal studies. Prepare results and reports for external clients and be able to present the findings of studies to clients to their satisfaction. Perform load flow analyses and contingency studies. Monitor large datasets and engage in production cost modeling. Develop long-term price projections for energy, capacity, renewable energy credit, and ancillary services. Identify and manage project issues and risks, including mitigation strategies and plans.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in engineering, economics, operations research, energy science, or a related field and 3 years of experience performing PROMOD Production Simulation Modeling.
In lieu of a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in in engineering, economics, operations research, energy science, or a related field and 3 years of experience as stated, employer will accept a master’s or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 1 year of experience as stated.
Must have 1 year of experience in each of the following: Working with and analyzing power flow data for modeling electric transmission networks; Assessing electrical transmission circuits and impact on energy flows on transmission networks; Evaluating electrical transmission limits, constraints, outages, and contingencies for modeling electric transmission networks; Reading and interpreting one-line diagrams for electric circuits; Using Python and MS Excel to gather, organize, and process large input and output datasets; Using Python to implement programming techniques and call calculation modules needed to facilitate the evaluation of electric power markets and to evaluate power market simulation results; Programming data analysis and visualization tools with Python to support power market modeling and to develop deliverables for consulting studies; Analyzing data sets used to model electricity markets and electric power networks with MS Excel and organizational tools; Developing graphics, maps, and visualization tools to facilitate analyses of simulation input and output data, diagnose simulation results, and present study results to consulting clients; Using Excel to manage and maintain large simulation datasets provided to clients under PROMOD simulation licensing arrangements; and Evaluating electric transmission conditions and impact upon electricity market operations and pricing and in modeling power networks to develop projections of Locational Marginal Prices.

Responsibilities

Enhance Hitachi Energy's strategic consulting capabilities within the renewable developer community with best practice consulting advice.
Establish client contacts at a senior level (e.g. Managing or Technical Director), and work with customers at a strategic level and coach them.
Provide insight to Hitachi Energy product managers for software tool improvements and roadmaps for client use in best practices and valuable reports.
Support consulting projects of high complexity, including: model renewable assets, energy storage, and hybrid and/or colocated resources.
Develop Nodal Simulation Ready Date updates each year.
Support PROMOD related modeling tasks for Zonal studies.
Prepare results and reports for external clients and be able to present the findings of studies to clients to their satisfaction.
Perform load flow analyses and contingency studies.
Monitor large datasets and engage in production cost modeling.
Develop long-term price projections for energy, capacity, renewable energy credit, and ancillary services.
Identify and manage project issues and risks, including mitigation strategies and plans.