Puget Sound Energy Job Opportunity: Supervisor Customer Energy Management (Demand Response)
Posted February 19, 2024
Job Description
Supervises the Customer Energy Management Demand Response (DR) team and third party contractors and consultants in delivering tariffed residential and commercial and industrial DR programs. Key responsibilities include oversight of DR offerings; program planning and budgeting; contract negotiation and management; coordination of regulatory compliance activities including evaluation, measurement and verification (EM&V) and reporting of program results; employee development and customer service.
Upholds the safety compliance standards inherent in PSE’s operating and/or field procedures related to work responsibilities. Promotes and supports a culture of total safety.
Demonstrates commitment to conduct business honestly, ethically and consistent with our core values and Code of Conduct. Ensures duties are performed in accordance with all regulatory compliance obligations.
- Employee Safety, Development & Team Building - Provides employees with coaching, feedback, and developmental opportunities and building effective teams:.
- Encourages a positive culture through empowerment, accountability, creativity, and trust.
- Leads appropriate program planning teams to develop a successful portfolio of customer energy management programs and services.
- Accountable for market analysis, product design, budget, program goals, deployment, and operations of services conducted by a team of energy professionals.
- Advances diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, including the equitable design and delivery of programs.
- Monitors service metrics and works with the team to ensure adjustments are being made as necessary to achieve desired results.
- Provides regular reports on program achievements and updates, including those for regulatory filings.
- Supports complex customer intake requests. Handles escalated customer issues.
- Collaborates with both PSE internal departments and vendors to resolve the root cause of an issue and to deliver an excellent customer experience.
- Facilitates solutions to unique problems by leveraging employees’ technical skills, and providing guidance with regards to PSE’s business initiatives.
- Assignments involve a substantial degree of complexity, with many interrelated elements, requiring considerations not previously encountered.
- Works closely with peer leaders across the company to ensure alignment of program design and activities such as program eligibility, customer service, training, and communications.
- Negotiates contracts, manages relationships, and reviews the work of program delivery vendors.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
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Advanced Energy Job Opportunity: Weatherization Program Manager
Posted February 19, 2024
Position Overview
Advanced Energy seeks to fulfill services under the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s State Energy Office, Weatherization Assistance Program, 5 Year Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), Weatherization of Single-Family Units for North Carolina Regions 2, 3, and 4.
The Weatherization Program Manager oversees and manages the BIL Weatherization program in these three NC regions and is responsible for supervising the rehabilitation and weatherization of homes. Ensures the work performed are in compliance with Federal, State and Agency regulations and guidelines pertaining to the Weatherization program.
Essential Functions
- Program Management
- People Management
- Program Technical Expertise
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Virtual Peaker and ICF Partner with Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation to Launch EV ChargeSmart Program
The EV ChargeSmart Program aims to achieve cost savings and grid resilience by encouraging participants to voluntarily adjust their EV charging patterns and earn year-round incentives for charging vehicles during off-peak hours.
Posted February 19, 2024
February 15, 2024; Louisville, KY – Virtual Peaker, a cloud-based SaaS company empowering modern utilities with the friendliest distributed energy platform on the planet, and ICF (NASDAQ:ICFI), a global consulting and technology services provider, collaborated with Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation (Central Hudson) to launch the EV ChargeSmart Program. EV ChargeSmart aims to achieve cost savings and grid resilience by encouraging participants to adjust their EV charging patterns voluntarily.
Central Hudson is a regulated transmission and distribution utility serving over 315,000 electric and 90,000 natural gas customers in New York State’s Mid-Hudson River Valley, from suburban New York City to Albany.
Virtual Peaker’s distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) suite, Shift, connects to at-home electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) or EV telematics and adjusts the charging of a participant’s device to ease the stress on the grid and benefit the community.
“We launched the EV ChargeSmart Program to support Central Hudson’s electric grid during periods of high electricity demand,” explained Marwa Chowdhury, Associate Program Manager at Central Hudson.
The EV ChargeSmart Program offers eligible customers a $25 incentive for enrolling their EVSE and/or EV and ongoing participation incentives based on their off-peak charging habits. Participants located in load-growth areas (areas where distributed energy resources can be used to defer or eliminate the need for upgrades to the grid) may be eligible to earn additional incentives by responding to conservation events during the summer season of June through September. During a conservation event, Central Hudson will use Virtual Peaker’s Shift suite to pause or reduce participants’ charging sessions to balance the demand on the grid.
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Puget Sound Energy Job Opportunity: EES Program Manager (Demand Response)
Posted February 19, 2024
Job Description
Develops and manages strategic design and delivery of Demand Response (DR) programs to PSE customers. Participates in all relevant program planning exercises including (but not limited to) goal setting, budget planning, market research, evaluation activities, and business case development. Identifies opportunities for continuous improvement in order to better serve our customers through innovative program design and implementation. Supports efforts around program marketing and outreach campaigns for successful customer engagement.
Upholds the safety compliance standards inherent in PSE’s operating and/or field procedures related to work responsibilities. Promotes and supports a culture of total safety.
Demonstrates commitment to conduct business honestly, ethically and consistent with our core values and Code of Conduct. Ensures duties are performed in accordance with all regulatory compliance obligations.
- Manages sizable customer-facing program(s) with complex scope and substantial budget.
- Develops and manages all program related activities including goal and target setting, budget planning, and program direction.
- Monitors program progress to ensure achievement of annual targets within budget while minimizing monthly variances through accurate forecasting.
- Developing cost effective product specifications, such as energy savings measures, through custom calculations or regionally developed deemed values.
- Drives program planning activities including strategic program direction and implementation as well as business case development.
- Conducts market research, critically analyzes multiple data sources, and incorporates best practices into program design.
- Develops strategic concepts and consistently pursues innovation.
- Manages third party vendor relationships including scope and contract management, budget negotiation, and vendor performance against key performance indicators.
- Manages and fosters positive relationships with trade professionals and internal/external stakeholders.
- Evaluates customer issues, proposes solutions, and manages customer expectations while providing excellent customer service.
- Managing the successful implementation of marketing and outreach strategies with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Works with senior management to maintain consistency across department.
- Demonstrated ability to execute high profile assignments with diligence.
- May provide input to the supervisor regarding program team performance.
- May provide training and development of team members, as needed, to support program objectives.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
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Berkeley Lab Job Opportunity: Energy/Environmental Policy Researcher
Posted February 9, 2024
Position Overview: As an Energy Policy Researcher, you will be a key player in the EMP Department which conducts technical, economic, and policy analysis, and provides technical support to a broad range of stakeholders. The role involves leading quantitative and qualitative research efforts, managing projects, and engaging with stakeholders. The position will focus on the energy services company (ESCO) research area, with potential involvement in Strategic Energy Management and other demand-side management/distributed energy resources program and policy topics.
Responsibilities:
Level 2 Policy Researcher:
- Contribute significantly to Berkeley Lab’s ESCO industry research, supporting the U.S. Department of Energy's goals.
- Develop and conduct policy-relevant research projects, including analyses of ESCO project trends, market studies, and ad hoc data analyses.
- Identify and define research needs, contribute to funding proposals, and present research results in webinars and at conferences.
- Manage project budgets, schedules, tasks, and deliverables, working with internal and external teams, including researchers, subject matter experts and the development team of the eProject Builder (ePB)/eProject eXpress web-based energy project tracking and reporting system.
- Foster partnerships and collaborations with industry stakeholders.
Level 3 Policy Researcher, in addition to the above:
- Lead Berkeley Lab’s ESCO industry research and related technical support projects.
- Identify research needs, develop funding proposals, and procure project funding from primary and non-DOE funders.
- Lead internal and contractor project teams, lead research, author technical reports and journal articles, provide oversight, and ensure high-quality, timely results
- Direct the development of complex technical concepts, methods, and research.
- Foster partnerships with a broad range of industry stakeholders and make significant contributions to nationwide working groups.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
For Level 2:
- Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent knowledge) in Energy & Resources, Public Policy, Economics, Business Administration, City & Regional Planning, Environmental Studies, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with increasing responsibility in program/project administration and research, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience related to the U.S. ESCO industry, electric utility demand-side management programs and policies, distributed energy resources programs and policies and/or electric utility regulation.
- Strong project management, communication and analytical skills.
- Experience with stakeholder engagement.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
For Level 3 (in addition to Level 2 requirements):
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience with increasing responsibility.
- Demonstrated leadership experience managing interactions with clients/funders and fostering partnerships with public agencies, industry organizations and other stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to develop, lead, complete and present research.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex projects and teams effectively.
Desired Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in relevant discipline.
- Familiarity with the ESCO industry and energy savings performance contracting.
- Experience with data analysis software (e.g., R, Python, Stata).
For full consideration, please apply by February 25, 2024.
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