Senior Clean Energy Quantitative Analyst

Requisition ID # 165406 

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

PG&E’s Strategy team leads the development and facilitation of enterprise strategy, co-creates and supports planning and policy initiatives related to energy systems, and incubates emerging business opportunities. With PG&E’s core values of serving our planet and delivering for our hometowns at heart, the team assesses cross-functional and line of business-specific industry trends and opportunities, provides internal consulting to support functional area strategy development and performance improvement, and leads high-profile utility initiatives.

The Senior Clean Energy Quantitative Analyst position resides within the System Planning team. System Planning is responsible for forecasting volumes, costs and impacts of demand- and supply-side energy resources. The team is also responsible for market assessment of supply-side and demand-side energy resources. System Planning supports long-term planning for supply-side and demand-side resources, electric transmission and distribution infrastructure, and business strategies to meet the future energy needs of PG&E’s customers reliably, at a reasonable cost, and consistent with company and regulatory/legislative environmental policies.

Position Summary

PG&E is seeking a highly motivated Senior Analyst who will contribute a combination of subject matter expertise in distributed energy resources, retail choice, analytics, data management and visualization, and the regulated utility business environment.

The California energy landscape is rapidly evolving in response to the convergence of policy, technology and customer trends that are driving toward a cleaner and more decentralized energy future. The analyst will be part of a dynamic and innovative team responsible for quantifying the adoption and impact of emerging customer energy choices (e.g., load serving entity, building electrification, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, rooftop solar energy, energy storage, electric vehicles, and data centers). The team’s forecasts are critical inputs in PG&E’s development long-term business strategies, energy supply portfolios, and infrastructure plans.

The analyst will support senior team members and stakeholders in developing innovative and data-driven forecasts of customer energy choices, identifying emerging energy delivery trends and behind-the-meter energy technologies. The analyst will conduct market and policy research to identify and quantify critical inputs and assumptions for energy service and behind-the-meter energy technology forecasts. They will also lead the team’s efforts to explore large sets of energy technology, customer energy usage, customer behavior and customer demographics data to reveal insights that define the key inputs and assumptions in PG&E’s energy demand forecasts. The analyst will also develop analytic platforms and data visualization tools for forecast production and delivery. Finally, the analyst will support the team’s efforts to continuously improve the efficiency, quality, and client service around its forecasts.

The successful candidate will embody a balance of analytic capability, ambition, intellectual curiosity, structured thinking, written and verbal communication skills, and team-orientation.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The preferred work location is Oakland, CA. 

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​ This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs. 

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $102,000.00

Bay Area Maximum: $162,000.00

Job Responsibilities

1.     Forecasting Analysis: Generate high-value business insights by identifying, framing, and executing analyses related to the forecast inputs, assumptions and scenarios for various customer energy choices related to retail providers and behind-the-meter technologies. Create analytic tools in consultation with team members. Conduct systematic assessments of the energy technology landscape. Communicate results.

2.     Data Management and Visualization: Access, extract, clean and explore large data sets related to energy technologies, customer demographics, customer decision making and customer energy use patterns. Communicate approaches and findings and provide guidance to the team of analysts. Build tools to visualize forecasts.

3.     Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement to forecasting to increase the efficiency, persuasiveness, and pervasiveness of energy resource forecasting. Research and document forecasting best practices, client use-cases, product specifications, analytical methods, processes, and platforms for production and delivery of forecasts. 

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Physics, Econometrics or Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Applied Sciences, Statistics, Business or equivalent field.
• 4 years of relevant work experience OR 3 years of relevant work experience and a Master’s degree OR 1 year of relevant work experience and a Doctorate degree.

Desired:

• Advanced degree in a relevant discipline
• Demonstrated experience performing energy-related quantitative analysis
• Demonstrated project, process, or product management experience
• Work experience at electric or natural gas utilities, independent power producers, wholesale energy market participants, regulatory agencies, consulting firms, or similar organizations
• Advanced understanding of PG&E’s business model, including interdependencies and interrelationships of the electric and natural gas industries and supply/demand-side businesses
• Strong familiarity with California regulatory context for investor-owned utilities
• Demonstrated experience communicating complex information clearly, concisely, and effectively to officer-level stakeholders and external public policy makers
• Working knowledge of advanced applications programming: Python, R, SQL, SAS, Stata, MATLAB, or other data analysis/statistical software, namely Microsoft Excel