Interconnection Director
- Posted 03 February 2025
- Salary Competitive Salary (DOE)
- LocationUnited States of America
- Job type Permanent
- Discipline Renewable Energy & Infrastructure, Energy Storage & DSR
- ReferenceSM-4138636354
- Contact NameSamantha Molloy
Job description
Interconnection Director
Location: Chicago, IL or Austin, TX (hybrid)
Please note this position is not fully remote
TGRC is working alongside an energy infrastructure company focused on the development, construction, and operation of energy storage assets in wholesale electricity markets. Our client has a long history of successful ventures in the power industry and commenced development of both its project pipeline and proprietary software technology in 2017. In 2019 they partnered with a leading private equity firm to roll out its project portfolio and is constructing its first assets this year.
The Interconnection Director will be responsible for understanding transmission system in various ISOs and performing necessary analysis to support commercial activities, primarily focused on power flow analysis but not limited to, market simulation, locational marginal price (LMP) analysis, renewable integration studies, and evaluation of the impact of market rule changes on these forecasts and analyses in ERCOT and CAISO regions.
Responsibilities:
Advise development team on project’s siting with performing necessary transmission planning studies.
Develop required modeling package for interconnection applications submittal in various ISOs
Act as a liaison with various ISOs and manage the interconnection process
Lead/supervise consultants to perform interconnection related studies
Develop necessary documents to participate in capacity markets with solid understanding of capacity market rules and assist in decision making in capacity auction related market activities in various ISOs
Participate in meetings related to regional planning to track and understand transmission/generation changes driven by regional reliability or public policies in various ISOs
Lead in various pre-operational activities such as registration as market participants in related ISOs, NERC and asset registration to advance projects’ targeted COD
Provide support to engineering team to review project engineering drawings and advance projects commissioning and testing process.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Master’s degree in electrical engineering with emphasis on power system is preferred
6+ years of experience in transmission planning for utility, IPP, ISO, consultancy, or related organization
3+ years of project management experience
Capability of performing load flow and short circuit studies with power system analysis software such as PSSE, PSLF, Powerworld, TARA and ASPEN.
High technical and commercial acumen to integrate commercial strategy with grid dynamics
Comfortable with ambiguity and making business decisions with limited information
Eager to wear multiple hats depending on business need and project priorities
High comfort level with small teams & organizations, with the curiosity and enthusiasm to innovate and formulate new ideas and to bring the best out of co-workers.
Unafraid to take ownership and initiative, in order to be to be effective within a highly motivated, fast-moving team.
Deep understanding of stability analysis, capability of tuning control parameters for dynamic models preferred
Familiarity with energy storage technologies and deployments preferred