Economics Intern

Job Description

What's In it for You

Our purpose is to lead the way to tomorrow's energy network. Your work as an intern can impact millions of people who depend on electricity for their everyday lives.

• You will get "real world" experience to begin or further your career pursuits in the energy industry. This is a paid intern position for 10 -12 weeks during summer 2026.
• You get to work on interesting and challenging assignments that will help grow your skill set.
• Opportunities to interact with the CEO and the Executive team of the ISO.
• Invitations to seminars on the latest energy industry topics such as renewables, electric cars and micro grids.
• Social activities with other interns.
• You have the opportunity to work at our "green" LEED certified Folsom, California campus with some of the brightest people in the industry if you are local.

What You Will Be Doing

Past Assignments have included work such as:

• Assist in the management of the CAISO stakeholder initiative processes related to market design, infrastructure planning, and generation interconnection.
• Perform detailed economic and engineering analysis of existing and future market design rules, as well as participate in Market design and development efforts to identify new measures to validate market results that will improve market performance.
• Developing and designing new statistical metrics to monitor the changes in the electricity market.
• Designing and calculating indices for monitoring market performance and market participant behavior.
• Preparing and analyzing data queries, reports, charts and slide presentations to support special studies, investigations, and Board Meetings and Market Monitoring Assessment reports.
• Perform complex mathematical and engineering analysis of market software and advanced power systems application’s results to determine optimality of solutions.

Qualifications

Level of Education and Discipline

• Currently in an Undergraduate, Master’s degree (MS) or PhD program in Economics or related field.
• Graduating December of 2026 or later.

Amount of Experience

• Previous internships, research or work experience using economic analysis is desired.
• Research and or studies in energy industry highly desired.

Type of Experience

• Proficient in Microsoft office suite.
• Good presentation, oral and written communication skills highly desirable. 
• Must be able to work effectively in a team environment. 
• Excellent analytical and problems solving skills required.    

Additional skills and abilities

• Strong quantitative skills.
• Competence in statistical software such as R, SAS and STATA desired but not required

Additional Information

The pay range for economics interns at the CAISO is $27 - $32 per hour.