AddressRequisition ID # 154744
Job Category: Energy Services / Trading
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Business Unit: Energy Policy & Procurement
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Oakland
Department Overview
PG&E’s Energy Policy and Procurement (EPP) organization procures energy-related products and manages PG&E’s policy activities for energy proceedings, actively participating in regulatory and legislative proceedings that shape the design and implementation of state, regional, and federal energy regulation and policy. In addition, EPP is responsible for long-term planning, risk management, and compliance functions related to PG&E’s energy portfolio.
Within EPP, Short Term Electric Supply (STES) manages the front office functions of managing our electricity portfolio, creating the bidding strategies for over 300 different generating resources, including wind, solar, battery storage, hydro, nuclear power plants, natural gas power plants, geothermal, and biomass. STES helps solve challenges that directly support California’s clean energy transition, like how to optimize battery storage and how to optimize hydroelectric resources with limited water. STES works very closely with the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) and adheres to regulatory compliance requirements, e.g., California Public Utility Commission’s (CPUC) Least Cost Dispatch mandate.
STES Planning & Strategy plays a vital role with development, management, and dynamic analysis of energy data that are essential in assuring timely and accurate Least Cost Dispatch and related compliance filings (testimony, data requests, and ad hoc questions). STES Planning & Strategy is an active stakeholder in CAISO market initiatives and analyses the millions of bids PG&E submits into the market for errors. STES Planning & Strategy also provides technical input on commercial and policy strategy.
Position Summary
This is an entry level position. This position reports directly to the Manager of STES Planning and Strategy and will support efforts to maintain and enhance a strong compliance culture in the STES organization. This individual must be very detail oriented with the ability to work with multiple databases and types of code. Key areas of responsibilities will include Energy Resource Recovery Account (ERRA) compliance efforts representing over $4 billion in transactions annually, regulatory reporting requirements to the CAISO and CPUC, and will include internal implementation of compliance risk reporting and controls.
This position will support development and processing of department metrics, telemetry compliance tracking, and help analyze energy scheduling accuracy. The above ensure daily compliance with Least Cost Dispatch and continuous improvement of STES Bidding and Scheduling processes. This position will work closely with senior analysts and will have the opportunity to learn about forecasting, optimization, and the technical frontier of energy policy. This position is responsible for collaborating with other teams to develop new reports, identify automation opportunities, and support data visualization needs.
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The preferred work location is Oakland, CA. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.
PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity.
A reasonable salary range is:
Bay Area Minimum: $75,000
Bay Area Maximum: $113,000
Job Responsibilities
- Perform data analysis and review data used to support Short-Term Electric Supply’s Least Cost Dispatch business processes
- Automate metrics and/or increase frequency with which high priority goals are reviewed
- Evaluate data and create user-friendly work products and interfaces to enable strategic decision-making
- Develop new data analysis tools, combining data across various databases
- Create reports and data visualization tools in Power BI
- Run ad hoc queries and analysis using SQL, developing a deep understanding of PG&E’s portfolio
- Maintain or update existing spreadsheets using visual basic (VBA)
- Develop solutions to increase efficiency of team operations
- Contribute and assist in the development of regulatory filings
- Develop a functional understanding of all activities of the electric procurement process (e.g., load forecasting, optimization, etc.)
Qualifications
Minimum:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Business, Engineering, Finance, Math, Economics or related discipline, or equivalent experience
Desired:
- Demonstrated ability to perform numerical analyses and creative problem solving
- Able to manage large databases and manipulate and extract data to perform analytics to support decision making
- Demonstrated attention to detail and ability to write clearly and communicate well
- High level of organization
- Working knowledge of electric markets
- Experience with Excel, SQL, Power BI, and Python
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
- Demonstrated focus on quality, efficiency, initiative and continuous improvement
- Demonstrated desire to expand knowledge of California energy markets and ability to learn quickly
