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Posted 20 hours agoSenior Resource Planning Analyst
at Xcel Energy
Denver, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Prepare and perform generation expansion modeling studies.
- Prepare extensive reports for regulators.
- Present and defend recommendations to senior management.
- Investigate and develop quantitative techniques to improve analytical processes.
- Project manage development of these resource plans for larger Xcel Energy operating utilities.
- Lead team in preparing and performing the modeling studies required to discover the optimal portfolio of generation resources to meet customer energy and peak demand.
- Recommend plan to senior officers.
- Prepare and perform expansion and production cost economic modeling of alternative supply plans and resources to develop optimal supply-demand portfolios for each Xcel Energy operating utility, incorporating consideration of various risks (e.g. fuel prices, electric market prices, reliability criteria, environmental requirements, technology development scenarios, etc.).
- Develop new quantitative processes to analyze risk issues.
- Project manage resource solicitation processes including developing the proposal, overseeing the evaluations conducted by a team of analysts and outside consultants, assuring the process was fair to all parties, recommending and defending winning offers to senior management and defending evaluation processes and recommendations in public and regulatory forums.
Requirements
- experience in capacity expansion and production cost analysis, nodal analysis, regional transmission analysis, reliability studies, or operations research related to the electric utility industry.
- This includes familiarity with all generation and contracts for the utility, with the load and capability tables of the utility, rules and regulations of the states in which the utility operates.
- Requirements Bachelor's degree in engineering, mathematics, economics or quantitative analysis. At least eight years utility
- experience in work functions such as plant engineering or operations, forecasting, rates, load research, or similar function that provides candidate with understanding of generation planning and system modeling techniques.
- experience with expansion or production simulation models. Extensive system knowledge of at least one of the larger Xcel Energy utilities. Preferred
- Experience & Skills Master’s degree or higher preferred.
- Experience in operations research and optimization tools such as Gurobi or similar solvers; nodal analysis tools such as PROMOD or similar platforms; or electric and natural gas markets and price forecasting.
- Strong proficiency in Excel and Python.
Benefits
- These recommendations often lead to decisions valued in excess of $1 billion dollars, undergo intense public scrutiny and cost $.5 to 2 million to develop.
- These solicitations often involve decisions costing in excess of a billion dollars and expenditure of $500,000 to $2,000,000 to conduct the solicitation and selection process.
- Non-Bargaining The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $112,200.00 to $159,400.00 per year This position is eligible for the following
- benefits: Annual Incentive Program, Medical/Pharmacy Plan, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Dependent Care Reimbursement Account, Health Care Reimbursement Account, Health Savings Account (HSA) (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Limited-Purpose FSA (if enrolled in eligible health plan and HSA), Transportation Reimbursement Account, Short-term disability (STD), Long-term disability (LTD), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Fitness Center Reimbursement (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Tuition
Contact
- Individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to apply please contact us at recruiting@xcelenergy.com .
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- If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact Xcel Energy Talent Acquisition at recruiting@xcelenergy.com.
Additional details
- Are you looking for an exciting job where you can put your skills and talents to work at a company you can feel proud to be a part of? Do you want a workplace that will challenge you and offer you opportunities to learn and grow? A position at Xcel Energy could be just what you’re looking for.
- This modeling-focused team is responsible for model development, innovation, testing, and integration with the enterprise data fabric.
- The team is composed of technical experts in economics, engineering, and mathematics.
- Position Summary Model, analyze, and develop resource expansion plans to meet electric system growth
- requirements for the Xcel operating utility companies.
- Provide project management for resource solicitations and resource plan development, which requires developing recommendations based on extensive modeling and analysis by an analytical team including outside consultants.
- Be the generation planning expert for one of the larger Xcel Energy utilities.
- Accept responsibility for the most difficult analytical efforts required in the department. Essential
- Responsibilities Through extensive modeling and other quantitative techniques, develop comprehensive plans to obtain or add new capacity and energy resources (e.g. new generation plants) in the most cost-effective manner.
- Such plans and processes must be developed for each company and state, within resource planning / acquisition rules that govern the expansion of the system / addition of new generation and/or purchased power resources.