Energy Analyst - Electric Power Division

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Job Description - Energy Analyst - Electric Power Division (260000CZ)

Job Description

Energy Analyst - Electric Power Division - ( 260000CZ )

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Who We Are: The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) seeks to protect, preserve, and enhance Massachusetts’ environmental resources and create a clean energy future for all residents. Through the stewardship of open spaces, the protection of environmental resources, and the advancement of clean energy, EEA works to make Massachusetts a wonderful place to live, work, and raise a family.

Our commitment to environmental justice ensures that every resident, regardless of background or location, can live in a safe, clean environment and shares equally in the benefits of the clean energy transition.

Who We Are as an

Employer:

At EEA, we create meaningful, inclusive opportunities that empower our employees to make a real difference in shaping the environmental future of Massachusetts. We foster a workplace culture where diversity is valued, innovation is encouraged, and collaboration thrives. Our employees play a vital role in advancing sustainability, environmental justice, and clean energy solutions.

DPU: The Department of Public Utilities (DPU) is the state agency responsible for overseeing investor-owned electric power, natural gas, and water companies in Massachusetts. It regulates the safety of bus companies, moving companies, transportation network companies, and oversees the safety of natural gas pipelines and the MBTA.

Job Description: Join the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) for an opportunity to influence investment in the electric grid in Massachusetts and help shape the Commonwealth’s affordable clean energy future! The DPU is seeking an exceptional Energy Analyst / Economist III to join the Electric Power Division (EPD). Department priorities include safety, security, reliability, greenhouse gas emissions reductions, affordability, equity, consumer rights, transparency, responsiveness, and public engagement.

The EPD works to ensure the regulated electric utilities in Massachusetts provide their customers with the most reliable service at the lowest possible cost. EPD also oversees and implements initiatives that encourage clean and renewable energy and helps implement policies and rules resulting from the enactment of the 2008 Green Communities Act, the 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act, the 2021 Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy Act, the 2022 Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind Act, and other energy and climate related legislation.

Role: As one of our Energy Analysts, you will play a key role by supporting, and in some cases, leading particular aspects of three broad categories of EPD-related issues and cases: (1) the provision of reliable, cost-effective electric supply to customers, including competitive supply, basic service, and rate making; (2) initiatives and activities aimed at achieving a more efficient, modernized, and environmentally sustainable electricity system, including energy efficiency, grid modernization, advanced metering infrastructure, electric vehicle infrastructure, net metering, long-term contracts, utility owned solar and storage, and the interconnection of renewable energy;

and (3) supporting the reliability and safety of the electrical system, including service quality and vegetation management.

Team and Work Style: You will work individually and as a team member with other economists/analysts, engineers, accountants, regional planners, and attorneys on multiple issues and cases. You will participate in all facets of assigned cases, which include: (1) reviewing and analyzing documentation and data filed by petitioning parties (typically the regulated utilities) and intervening parties, (2) developing questions and information requests related to petitioner filings, (3) questioning petitioner and intervenor witnesses during evidentiary hearings and technical sessions, (4) developing, presenting, and defending policy positions of the DPU, and (5) writing sections of DPU orders,…