Commercial Analyst- Power
Job Title: Commercial Analyst
Location: Houston, TX
Job Overview:
A growing energy infrastructure developer is seeking a Commercial Analyst to support the valuation and commercialization of large-scale transmission projects across North America. The position sits at the intersection of power markets, transmission planning, resource adequacy, and commercial strategy.
Job Responsibilities:
- Build, maintain, and analyze probabilistic resource adequacy models to evaluate reliability metrics, capacity value, ELCC, and resource accreditation across various market frameworks.
- Conduct and interpret production cost, congestion, and capacity expansion studies to support project valuation and commercial decision making.
- Assemble, validate, and maintain large datasets including load forecasts, generation data, transmission topology, and weather inputs.
- Develop commercial analyses related to capacity value, congestion relief, transmission benefits, and energy market opportunities across ERCOT, MISO, SPP, WECC, PJM, and other regional markets.
- Support regulatory initiatives through quantitative analysis, technical reports, white papers, and stakeholder presentations.
- Partner with commercial, regulatory, development, and finance teams to ensure analytical work supports project development, financing, and commercialization efforts.
- Automate analytical workflows and data pipelines using Python and SQL to improve efficiency and scalability.
- Translate complex modeling results into clear recommendations and presentations for internal leadership, customers, and external stakeholders.
Job Qualifications:
- 3-5+ years of experience in energy analytics, wholesale power markets, transmission planning, resource adequacy, market fundamentals, or a related quantitative field.
- Experience with probabilistic resource adequacy modeling, loss of load studies, ELCC analysis, or similar reliability-focused frameworks.
- Familiarity with production cost and capacity expansion tools such as SERVM, AURORA, PLEXOS, PROMOD, GridView, EnCompass, or similar platforms.
- Strong Python and SQL skills with experience analyzing large datasets and automating workflows.
- Understanding of power market fundamentals, capacity markets, transmission systems, congestion dynamics, and resource accreditation methodologies.
- Experience working within one or more organized power markets including ERCOT, MISO, SPP, PJM, WECC, NYISO, or ISO-NE.
- Strong attention to detail with an ability to produce accurate, well-documented, and defensible analyses.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Finance, or another quantitative discipline. Advanced degree preferred but not required.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.
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