Energy Resource Planner

Responsibilities

The Energy Resource Planner conducts complex technical analysis to support OPPD's resource planning activities. This includes calibration and use of detailed electricity market models to develop generation and fuel forecasts, analysis supporting OPPD's Integrated Resource Plan, evaluation of both traditional and emerging generation and demand‑side‑management technologies as part of a portfolio of energy investments, and reporting and communicating portfolio information internally and externally.

The Energy Resource Planner leverages portfolio and decision analysis tools and principles to optimize system cost, financial risk, and environmental sustainability to achieve OPPD's goals while maintaining high system reliability. The modeling and analyses produced by this position will support and coordinate with corporate financial planning, operations planning, economic development, systems planning, and pricing.

• Electricity Market Forecasting & Budgeting:
  Develops periodic forecasts for asset fuel consumption, generation, and market performance utilizing specialized industry market modeling tools.
• Models generation assets and system energy requirements within the SPP Integrated Marketplace utilizing generation dispatch software.
• Supports development of forecasts for natural gas, coal, and power prices in collaboration with OPPD’s fuel and electricity market technical experts.
• Calibrates dispatch modeling software based on historical observations and provides variance analyses as required.
• Supports economic optimization of the generation outage planning to minimize negative financial impacts.
• Develops models to evaluate recommendations arising from Southwest Power Pool (SPP) working groups.
• Prepares formal 5‑year IRP in accordance with requirements outlined by the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA).
• Corporate Planning and Organization Support:
  Provides analytical expertise to support department and organizational planning activities.
• Provides state‑of‑the‑art expertise and creative problem solving to internal customers on a variety of non‑routine efforts.
• Coordinates with other departments to support parallel planning efforts, policy analysis, regulatory analysis, and economic analysis of potential projects or programs.
• Assists in the analysis, preparation, review and documentation support for the strategic financial, and operations planning, Rating Agency presentations, and other scenarios as requested by management.
• Provides quality assurance reviews and support for all modeling efforts of the department.
• Prepares and completes data submittals for external entities including SPP, EIA, and WAP.
• Integrated Resource Planning:
  Supports technical analysis in development of OPPD's Integrated Resource Planning efforts on an ongoing basis to support supply and demand side resource decisions.
• Conducts portfolio level analysis of energy resource investments including both demand and supply‑side options to optimize financial cost and risk while ensuring environmental sustainability goals and reliability requirements are met.
• Evaluates the value of traditional and emerging technologies within the utility industry and their potential current and future financial impacts.
• Creates clear and effective written reports and visual presentations to communicate results of analyses internally and externally.

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, engineering or other related business or scientific discipline.
• Minimum 2 plus years of analytical work related experience.
• Education and experience conducting complex economic, techno‑economic, and/or financial modeling including any of the following: forecasting, decision analysis, financial/economic modeling, stochastic analysis, time‑series analysis and/or quantitative risk analysis.
• Requires thoroughness, accuracy, excellent documentation skills, excellent oral and written communication skills, self‑motivation and management skills, effective presentation skills and the ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to work under time constraints and organize and manage several projects simultaneously.
• Ability to pass background check to obtain Critical Energy Infrastructure Information (CEII) clearance.

Desired:

• Master's degree in economics, finance, engineering, or related field is desired, (MBA and/or CFA preferred).
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of data management systems and data visualization tools with the ability to develop and use complex models or specialized computer applications.

• Salary Grade: S5
• Minimum: $98,877
• Midpoint: $123,596

EOE:
Protected Veterans/Disability

Apply online at  on or before January 23rd.

Recruiter:
Michael Fierro -