Resource Modeling Analyst

Date: May 29, 2023

Location(s): Juno Beach, FL, US, 33408

Company: NextEra Energy

Requisition ID: 64650

provides renewable energy consulting services using industry-leading scientific analysis. As a NextEra Energy Resources company, the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun, we thrive on solving the toughest problems facing the energy industry, and creating innovative forecasting and optimization solutions that lead the way into the next era of energy. Do you want to help accelerate the transition to low-cost sustainable energy? Join our world-class team today!

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Position Specific Description

NextEra Energy and its affiliate entities represent the world’s largest generator of wind and solar renewable energy. We are currently seeking a Resource Modeling Analyst for our team. In this role, your primary responsibilities will be to work among multi-disciplinary project teams to numerically model Demand Energy Management systems for Utility and Commercial/Industrial Customers. Applicants with backgrounds in Distribution and Power System Analysis, Electricity Markets, Optimization, Operations Research, Decision Analysis, and Renewable Energies (Wind, Solar, and Storage) are highly encouraged to apply.

This role will support all Utility and Distributed Generation scale projects. The candidate for this position will be responsible for leading complex energy optimization projects that include and are not limited to: Microgrid applications, Demand Energy Management, Solar and Storage Design, Generation stack, Market Analytics, Renewable Investments, and more. The ideal candidate will have excellent professional skills (problem-solving, critical thinking, time management, organizational skills), the ability to create solutions through our optimization tools and data analytic processes, an inherent passion for renewable energy and complex microgrid applications, strong independent decision-making skills, and leadership qualities.

This position will work on creating ad-hoc optimization efforts analyzing site-specific resource(s), estimating long-term power production estimates, and communicating/presenting results to upper management. Employees in this role are also responsible for independent production responsibilities and multi-tasking across a range of diverse customer projects. Core services and deliverables include but are not limited to: Demand Energy/Charge Management, State-wide REC programs analysis, Power Market Analysis, data collection and filtering, long-term energy production estimates, investment approval processing, financing support, and special projects. Individuals in this position apply knowledge to support customers and new product development. The role also has opportunities to support the science and solutions teams with application testing and advancement. This position offers abundant opportunities to work with internal and external stakeholders, get exposed to both short and long-term process improvements and new product developments

Other duties include:

• Utilize NEA proprietary Optimization Tools to analyze Customer Power Systems and optimize ideal Energy projects.

• Create Ad-hoc optimization models to solve complex problems

• Communicate with customers to gather required inputs for optimization efforts (ex: anticipated cost of generators, customer load profiles, revenue streams, site-specific tariffs, etc.

• Advancement of processes for conducting ad-hoc optimization efforts for new energy types (Hydro, CHP, Etc.)

• Reviews and analyzes customer load profiles/generation facilities

• Exposure to Power Markets and State-wide Renewable Energy programs such as the NY Value of Distributed Energy Resources (VDER).

• Conduct Solar, Wind, and Battery Energy Assessments as assigned.

• Reviews electrical and structural drawings of commercial and utility-scale solar farms

• Provides investment due diligence and financing support

• Applies technical knowledge in support of new product development

• Prepares written reports and presentations for both internal and external customers

• Programming Experienced in R, Python, or similar programming languages as well as modeling languages such as GAMS, Julia, etc are highly desirable.

Job Overview

This job is responsible for running sophisticated wind flow, solar irradiance, statistical and GIS models to produce long-term wind or solar energy production estimates. Employees in this role are responsible for independent production responsibilities and multi-tasking across a range of diverse customer projects. Core services and deliverables include, but are not limited to, data collection and filtering, long-term wind or solar energy production estimates, power curve testing, investment approval processing, site suitability testing, financing support, and special projects. Individuals in this position apply knowledge in support of customer service and new product development and support Senior Quant Analysts with prototype coding, code/application testing, and process/application documentation.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Reviews on-site wind and meteorological data from various sensing devices

• Sets up, monitors and analyzes numerical weather models (both meso- and micro-scale) to accurately understand the long-term wind/energy resource across a given area

• Sets up and executes in-house software and prediction tools to translate the long-term wind resource into energy production for a wide variety of turbine configurations

• Performs geospatial analysis using ArcGIS software and other industry-standard tools to identify turbine locations with maximum energy output and minimal impact to local land use

• Collects and filters solar irradiance and solar farm operational data

• Reviews electrical and structural drawings of commercial and utility scale solar farms

• Analyzes system energy loss due to wiring, transformers, soiling, snow etc.

• Diagnoses operating assets for plant optimization

• Provides investment due diligence and financing support

• Applies technical knowledge in support of new product development

• Provides site intelligence and field services, including construction screening, on-site instrumentation audits and shading analyses

• Provides meteorological instrumentation and siting recommendations

• Prepares written reports and presentations for both internal and external customers

• Travels to project sites to collect data, assists in permitting and community outreach, and participates in industry conferences - travel expectancy is between 5% and 25% of time

• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree

• Experience: 1+ years

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree

Employee Group: Exempt

Employee Type: Full Time

Job Category: Science, Research, and Technology

Organization: NextEra Analytics Inc

Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

Where permitted by applicable law, NextEra Energy requires all employees and new hires to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccination on or before the first day of employment.

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