Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Brightsmith is a growing utility-scale renewable energy company focused on solar, battery storage, and hybrid energy projects across U.S. power markets. The Commercial Analytics Associate will conduct electricity market research, develop production cost models and forecasts, support project valuation and portfolio strategy, and build automated analytical tools using quantitative analysis and programming.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and execute production cost models to evaluate future market conditions across multiple ISOs and balancing authorities
- Analyze energy, ancillary service, congestion, capacity, and renewable attribute markets to forecast project revenues and identify market opportunities
- Support long term forecasts of generation expansion, retirements, transmission development, load growth, and policy changes affecting wholesale electricity markets
- Evaluate market fundamentals to support greenfield development, project acquisitions, and strategic portfolio planning
- Support commercial valuation of utility scale solar, storage, and hybrid projects throughout the development lifecycle
- Develop scenario analyses that quantify the impact of changing market assumptions, transmission expansion, renewable penetration, and load growth
- Assist in evaluating congestion, basis risk, curtailment, and costs of transmission service on project economics
- Prepare technical summaries and presentations that communicate project benefit analyses to development, executive leadership, potential offtake and investment partners
- Develop and maintain automated workflows using Python, SQL, or similar programming languages to improve model preparation, execution, and post processing
- Build and maintain databases supporting production cost modeling, market forecasts, and commercial analytics
- Improve data quality, repeatability, and analytical efficiency through automation and standardized processes
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI assisted tools for data processing, scenario generation, report development, and analytical workflows
- Research and maintain assumptions related to fuel prices, generation technologies, storage performance, emissions policies, and market design
- Support development of forward looking market scenarios that improve investment decision making
- As the company continues to grow, this role offers the opportunity to develop deep expertise in wholesale electricity markets, take ownership of key analytical initiatives, and play an increasingly influential role in shaping the company's commercial analytics capabilities and investment strategy
- Continuously improve understanding of production cost modeling, nodal pricing, congestion analysis, storage optimization, and renewable energy valuation
- Work closely with the Senior Director of Commercial Analytics to enhance the company's commercial analytics framework and internal modeling capabilities
- Contribute new ideas that improve the speed, consistency, and quality of commercial decision making
Skills
- • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, or another quantitative discipline
- • 2–5 years of experience in electricity market analysis, production cost modeling, renewable energy analytics, consulting, or a related field
- • Strong quantitative analysis and programming skills using Python, SQL, R, or similar languages
- • Excellent Excel modeling skills and experience working with large datasets
- • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly
- • Experience using production cost modeling software such as PROMOD, PLEXOS, Aurora, GridView, or similar
- • Familiarity with wholesale electricity markets including congestion, basis, ancillary services, capacity markets, and renewable energy valuation
- • Experience working with ISO/RTO market data
- • Experience building automated analytical workflows and data pipelines
Benefits
- Annual bonus commensurate with experience
- Eligibility for participation in Shareholder Program
- Market competitive Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life
- 401(k) match
- Paid Time Off
- Parental leave
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