What The Role Is

Reporting to the Director of Grid Integration, the Associate of Grid Integration is responsible for managing project development and integration of Clearway’s 11 GW of solar, wind, and battery storage project pipeline in multiple states throughout the U.S Eastern and ERCOT Interconnections. The Associate will directly support Clearway’s Project and Business Development teams in applying for, managing, and obtaining interconnection agreements for all solar, wind, and storage projects. Additionally, the Associate will perform interconnection feasibility studies, support, and provide direction to consultants and third-party development partners to process interconnection agreements, meet with utilities, coordinate interconnection engineering activities, and manage the overall grid integration process through commissioning.

This position will also be responsible for coordinating work with Clearway’s Engineering, Construction, and Operations departments. This is a hybrid position open to any of our office locations in San Francisco, CA, Carlsbad, CA, Scottsdale, AZ, Houston, TX, Denver, CO or Princeton, NJ.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Provide strategic, commercial, and technical input to the Development, Engineering, and Construction teams regarding the development and grid integration of the company’s growing project pipeline located in the Eastern and ERCOT Interconnects.
• Provide a detailed and complete understanding of the interconnection and grid integration process for MISO, ERCOT, SPP, PJM, NYISO, and ISO-NE.
• Manage the interconnection study and grid integration process for Clearway’s utility pipeline.
• Attend utility, ISO/RTO project-specific, and stakeholder meetings.
• Communicate the project’s utility interconnection requirements to the Development and Project Engineering Departments.
• Perform internal feasibility and system impact studies to support greenfield project screening and development.
• Manage outside power systems engineering consultants in performing feasibility and system impact studies.
• Work with Clearway’s development engineering team to submit interconnect applications; identify critical interconnection study milestones, cost estimates, and capital exposure risks and clearly communicate necessary information to stakeholders.
• Manage quality of interconnection work and processes led by third-party developers and EPCs for the company’s portfolio.
• Support engineering in optimizing projects’ AC design and equipment selection considering grid interconnection requirements.
• Support construction management and operation & maintenance in project commissioning.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum of 4 years of related power systems modeling, transmission planning, or grid integration experience.
• Experience with power system analytical tools such as PSS®E, TARA, PSLF, Power World.
• Working knowledge of general FERC interconnection process and specific requirements for MISO, ERCOT, SPP, PJM, ISO-NE, and NYISO.
• Excellent knowledge of interconnection study procedures with expert knowledge of performing power flow, short circuit, and dynamic studies.
• Proven problem-solving and negotiation skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment.
• General knowledge of technical standards applicable to the project interconnection design.
• If you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications but see yourself contributing, please submit your resume.

What Would Be Nice

• Master’s degree in Electrical Power Systems is preferred.
• Experience in projects in MISO, ERCOT, and SPP.

Clearway will not sponsor nonimmigrant visas for this position (H-1B, TN, E-3, etc.).