Director, Grid Integration
Company: Bluewave Strategies LLC
Location: Boston
Posted on: October 27, 2024
Job Description:
BlueWave's mission is to protect our planet by transforming
access to renewable energy. As a pioneering renewable energy
company that develops and owns solar and battery storage projects,
BlueWave has a long track record of success and is developing
several gigawatts of solar and battery storage projects throughout
the United States to ensure our grid is reliable and efficient in a
clean energy future. BlueWave is proud to be a certified B Corp,
recognized by B Labs as "Best in the World" in Governance. About
the role: The Director of Grid Integration shall have overall
responsibility to administer the firm's grid integration practice -
for distribution and transmission-level interconnection requests.
The role is effectively one of a player-coach - partly a specialist
individual contributor and partly a team manager. The Director
reports to the Vice President of Grid Integration and may oversee
and support the senior engineers on the team. What you'll do:
- Identify optimum locations on the grid with potential for
interregional transmission expansion or interconnecting large
volume of generation resources in the MW & GW range.
- Develop strategies for site acquisition based on
interconnection characteristics and specifics of markets. Support
engineers in developing and maintaining market specific
interconnection strategy.
- Collaborate with internal teams on interconnection aspects
(costs, schedules, options). Assist, especially critical path and
late breaking issues, in delivering portfolios of projects to COD.
Continuously improve intra- and inter-team processes.
- Gain a deep understanding of various interconnection
configurations and engineering parameters to reduce interconnection
costs and turnaround.
- Support interconnection engineers on strategies and approaches
to negotiating alternatives, lower costs and shorter timelines to
BW's benefit with utilities/RTOs. Assist in difficult project
issues.
- Assist in justification of financial case for interconnection
payments.
- Actively follow various RTO stakeholder meetings and state
industry advocacy groups to both stay abreast for policy changes
that could impact company's development portfolio. Advocate for
policy and regulatory change towards lower market level
interconnection barriers.
- Research and analyze ratings and other grid service paths to
identify optimum upgrades for potential projects.
- Oversee due diligence on potential projects to assess
interconnection and commercial viability of projects.
- Oversee timeliness of interconnection applications and
process.
- Oversee contractual arrangements with consultants and
subcontractors necessary to support a broad range of grid analyses
- Drive down costs.
- Negotiate complex transmission and/or generator interconnection
agreements with various transmission service providers across the
US and Canada.
- Support commercial analytics team in performing detailed nodal
and zonal market analysis with power flow analyses.
- Have a commercial mindset and creativity with the willingness
and flexibility to work in a fast-paced work environment with
constantly shifting priorities.
- Maintain strong relationships with key players internally and
externally.
- Manage interconnection team of 4-8 employees. Maintain employee
engagement. Qualifications:
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills.
- Ability to work well on a team in a fast-paced environment and
manage tight deadlines.
- Be detail oriented and possess interpersonal and organizational
skills.
- Strong engineering, analytical and quantitative skills.
- At least 10 years of experience with relevant interconnection
work.
- Bachelor's degree in electrical or power engineering
required.
- Master's degree in electrical engineering, or relevant
power-related field is preferred.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal,
with utility and ISO representatives, external engineering firms,
and company personnel from varied technical backgrounds.
- Strong experience in ISO-NE/NYISO or Distributed Generation
markets preferred.
- Self-starter and willing to persevere with solving thorny
problems.
- Demonstrated knowledge of grid planning and/or electric market
principles with experience utilizing at least one of the common
grid analytics tools like PSS/E, PSLF, Powergem TARA, PROMOD,
GRIDVIEW, UPLAN, PLEXOS, AURORA, etc.
- Planning level knowledge of substation configurations,
transmission line design and ratings, and cost estimates.
- Understand solar and storage project single line diagrams and
layouts, utility infrastructure and interconnection processes,
technical aspects of utility interconnection materials, policy,
incentives and tariff implications on interconnection applications.
BlueWave provides employees with a robust benefits package,
including unlimited paid time off, dedicated volunteer days, cell
phone reimbursement, summer Fridays and 13 paid holidays. In
addition, we offer a 401k and Roth 401K option with company match,
subsidized health, dental and vision plans, as well as life
insurance and long/short-term disability. Inclusion at BlueWave: As
a mission-driven B Corp, as environmentalists, and as humans, we
hold ourselves accountable to creating a workforce that celebrates
diversity on our team and within our communities. Our inclusive
culture and core values inspire us to develop more innovative,
bolder solutions to support our customers and partners in the solar
industry. When you join BlueWave, you join a collaborative team
doing all that we can to be transparent, sustainable and inclusive
as we fight for our shared vision of protecting the planet.
BlueWave is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive
workplace and will do so by actively seeking to hire and promote
diverse individuals throughout the company. Providing equal
employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for
employment is critical to our identity and we do not discriminate
on the basis of race, color, religion, religious creed, national
origin, ancestry, sex, age, handicap (disability), sexual
orientation, gender identity/ or expression, genetics, veteran
status, marital status, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition,
military status or obligation or other protected status, in
accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
Compensation will be influenced by a wide array of factors
including but not limited to internal pay equity, job-related
knowledge, skills, education, licenses/certifications, essential
job duties and the necessary experience relative to the job's
minimum qualifications.
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