Senior Generation Planning Analyst

Job Summary

The Senior Generation Planning Analyst supports the operational, financial, regulatory, and long-term planning activities associated with the company’s generation portfolio. The position develops and maintains generation, fuel, outage, cost, emissions, performance, and resource-planning information used for business decisions, regulatory filings, compliance reporting, resource adequacy, and Integrated Resource Planning (IRP).

The position coordinates recurring and one-time reporting to organizations including Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), North America Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Federal Electric Regulatory Commission (FERC), Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC), and other organizations; supports generation forecasting, fuel and cost analysis, plant-performance evaluation, and MISO resource-adequacy activities; and prepares well-documented analyses for internal and external stakeholders.

The role works across generation operations, gas supply, environmental, accounting, regulatory, wholesale power marketing, and finance, to ensure that data and analyses are accurate, timely, traceable, and responsive to business needs.

Essential Functions

• Generation Data, Reporting, and Compliance

  • Collect, validate, reconcile, and maintain generation, fuel, outage, availability, cost, emissions, and plant-performance data.
  • Prepare recurring operational, management, planning, regulatory, and compliance reports for internal stakeholders and external organizations, including MISO, NERC, FERC, EIA, and state regulatory agencies.
  • Compile and report monthly Generation Operations production data and performance measures to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Serve as the Generating Availability Data System (GADS) data coordinator and compile, validate, and submit Generation Operations GADS data to NERC and MISO.
  • Complete recurring government filings and supplemental requests, including monthly and annual EIA-923 and EIA-860 submissions.
  • Develop and maintain information for submission to FERC’s market-based rate database.
  • Respond to recurring and one-time data requests and surveys from MISO, including fuel, outage-management, winterization, and related surveys.
  • Maintain reporting workbooks, databases, dashboards, procedures, controls, supporting documentation, and records for management review, audits, and regulatory inquiries.
  • Investigate data issues, coordinate corrections, resolve discrepancies, and ensure reported information is accurate, traceable, properly documented, and submitted on time.

  Generation Performance, Fuel, and Cost Analysis

  • Develop and maintain short-term and long-term generation forecasts, including the ten-year production forecast and recurring updates to operating assumptions.
  • Support fuel inventory, fuel forecasting, generation cost, budgeting, and cash-flow reporting activities.
  • Maintain coal inventory and quality data and report results to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Analyze actual results against forecasts, budgets, and prior periods and communicate material operational and financial drivers.
  • Develop and maintain monthly generation-cost updates for MISO Settlements and Wholesale Power Marketing.
  • Develop and maintain operational cost surveys for generating resources for the MISO Independent Market Monitor.
  • Support plant performance engineers and plant personnel with heat-rate, availability, and other performance-improvement initiatives.

Continued Essential Duties and Resposibilities

Resource Adequacy and Long-Term Generation Planning

• Support the MISO Planning Resource Auction and related resource-adequacy activities, including resource accreditation, MECT and tariff-related submissions, peak-load and energy forecasts, new generating resources, and generation retirements.
• Develop and maintain planning datasets, assumptions, analytical work papers, and documentation used in Integrated Resource Planning.
• Assist in evaluating existing generation, market purchases, renewable resources, energy storage, demand-side resources, and other resource alternatives.
• Assist in preparing the IRP report, modeling inputs, supporting documentation, reviewing materials, stakeholder communications, and responses for the public stakeholder process.
• Prepare analysis and supporting documentation for management, regulatory filings, and stakeholder requests.
• Provide analytical and documentation support for Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity filed with the IURC to acquire, construct, or retire generating resources, including wind and solar resources.
• Monitor relevant MISO stakeholder activities and requirements, including (Resource Adequacy Subcommittee) RASC, Market Subcommittee (MSC), Loss of Load Expectation Working Group (LOLEWG), and other groups affecting resource adequacy and generation planning.

Stakeholder Coordination and Continuous Improvement

• Build effective working relationships across generation operations, planning, market operations, regulatory, environmental, finance, accounting, information technology, and other business areas.
• Coordinate data collection across multiple departments and adjust priorities to meet changing internal and external customer needs.
• Communicate planning results, analytical methods, assumptions, and technical information clearly to internal and external stakeholders.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve data quality, streamline reporting, strengthen controls, and reduce manual work.
• Maintain procedures, training materials, and knowledge-transfer documentation to support business continuity and cross-training.
• Use business and financial judgment to understand the cost and enterprise impacts of planning assumptions, reporting decisions, and process improvements.
• Provide technical guidance, peer review, and knowledge transfer appropriate to the assigned job level.
• Support cross-functional projects and the Emergency Operating Plan when assigned.

Education Description

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, Finance, Accounting, Mathematics, Statistics, Business, Energy Management, Data Analytics, or a related field.

Experience

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Strong Microsoft Excel and data-management skills, including the ability to organize and analyze large datasets and produce controlled, repeatable work products.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, collaborate across teams, meet recurring deadlines, and document assumptions, methods, and results.
• Working knowledge of electric utility operations, generation, planning, energy markets, regulatory reporting, or a closely related area.
• Five or more years of relevant electric utility, energy, analytical, financial, engineering, or regulatory experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in electric utility operations, power generation, generation planning, energy markets, fuel management, or regulatory reporting.
• Knowledge of generating-resource design characteristics, performance metrics, heat rate, availability, fuel management, and generation economics.
• Experience reporting data to NERC, FERC, EIA, MISO, or state regulatory commissions.
• Familiarity with MISO resource adequacy and generation-planning processes, including the Planning Resource Auction, resource accreditation, MECT, applicable tariff requirements, RASC, RSC, and LOLEWG activities.
• Experience supporting Integrated Resource Planning, CPCN proceedings, production forecasting, or evaluation of supply-side and demand-side resources.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with Power BI, Power Query, SQL, Python, or other analytical and automation tools.
• Experience preparing regulatory, management, or stakeholder-facing analyses and submissions.