[Hiring] Renewable Energy - Senior Nodal Advisory Consultant @Hitachi

Role Description

Renewable Energy - Sr. Nodal Advisory Consultant positions offered by Hitachi Energy USA Inc. (Atlanta, GA). Enhance Hitachi Energy's strategic consulting capabilities within the renewable developer community with best practice consulting advice.

• Establish client contacts at a senior level (e.g. Managing or Technical Director).
• Work with customers at a strategic level and coach them.
• Provide insight to Hitachi Energy product managers for software tool improvements and roadmaps for client use in best practices and valuable reports.
• Support consulting projects of high complexity, including:
  • Model renewable assets.
  • Energy storage.
  • Hybrid and/or colocated resources.
• Develop Nodal Simulation Ready Date updates each year.
• Support PROMOD related modeling tasks for Zonal studies.
• Prepare results and reports for external clients and present findings to clients to their satisfaction.
• Perform load flow analyses and contingency studies.
• Monitor large datasets and engage in production cost modeling.
• Develop long-term price projections for energy, capacity, renewable energy credit, and ancillary services.
• Identify and manage project issues and risks, including mitigation strategies and plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in engineering, economics, operations research, energy science, or a related field.
• 3 years of experience performing PROMOD Production Simulation Modeling.
• In lieu of a bachelor’s degree, a master’s or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 1 year of experience is acceptable.

Requirements

• 1 year of experience in each of the following:
  • Working with and analyzing power flow data for modeling electric transmission networks.
  • Assessing electrical transmission circuits and impact on energy flows on transmission networks.
  • Evaluating electrical transmission limits, constraints, outages, and contingencies for modeling electric transmission networks.
  • Reading and interpreting one-line diagrams for electric circuits.
  • Using Python and MS Excel to gather, organize, and process large input and output datasets.
  • Using Python to implement programming techniques and call calculation modules needed to facilitate the evaluation of electric power markets and to evaluate power market simulation results.
  • Programming data analysis and visualization tools with Python to support power market modeling and to develop deliverables for consulting studies.
  • Analyzing data sets used to model electricity markets and electric power networks with MS Excel and organizational tools.
  • Developing graphics, maps, and visualization tools to facilitate analyses of simulation input and output data, diagnose simulation results, and present study results to consulting clients.
  • Using Excel to manage and maintain large simulation datasets provided to clients under PROMOD simulation licensing arrangements.
  • Evaluating electric transmission conditions and impact upon electricity market operations and pricing and in modeling power networks to develop projections of Locational Marginal Prices.

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