Energy Analyst - Electric Power Division

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

Energy Analyst - Electric Power Division - (260000JG)

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 tirelessly 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.

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, ensuring a positive and lasting impact on Massachusetts and its residents.

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.

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.

As part of our team, you will work both 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: reviewing and analyzing documentation and data filed by petitioning parties (typically the regulated utilities) and intervening parties, developing questions and information requests related to petitioner filings, questioning petitioner and intervenor witnesses during evidentiary hearings and technical sessions, developing, presenting, and defending policy positions of the DPU, and writing sections of DPU orders, decisions, and other correspondence.

The position requires excellent qualitative and quantitative analytical and writing skills, as well as the ability to express thoughts in a clear, methodical manner. Excellent oral communications and presentation skills are highly desirable.

• Review petitions filed by electric utility companies and provide technical support on matters such as competitive supply, basic service, rate making, energy efficiency, grid modernization, advanced metering infrastructure, electric vehicle infrastructure, net metering, long‑term contracts, utility‑owned solar and storage, the interconnection of renewable energy, service quality, and vegetation management.
• Execute analyses and procedural steps and participate in discovery and the drafting of DPU orders, decisions, and other correspondence.
• Collaborate…