Section Manager - Storage Strategy Storage Group

Job Info

112155

Posting Expiration Date:May 25, 2024

Schedule Type:Full-Time

Minimum Salary:$140000

Maximum Salary:$180000

Organization:Dist Resource Integration

Department:Distribution Planning

Section:DRI Distribution Planning

Location:NY-New York-4 Irving Pl Headquarters

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Job Description

Mission Statement

• Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison), Orange & Rockland Utilities (O&R), and Consolidated Edison Transmission (CET) employees are required to follow health, safety, and environmental policies, EEO, Standards of Business Conduct, and all other applicable company policy and procedures. We all share a responsibility to advance the company’s mission by excelling at our three corporate priorities – safety of our people and the public, operational excellence in all that we do, and ensuring the best possible customer experience.

Core Responsibilities

• Section Manager is responsible for leading the development, execution, tracking, and monitoring of the strategy to ensure Con Edison and New York State energy storage goals and targets are achieved.

• Conducts analyses, developing and leveraging analytics tools, tracking and optimization of existing economic models and programs, designing new Energy Storage programs, developing and incorporating market intelligence, ensuring seamless handoff to operational groups for third party programs and utility owned storage, and partnering with staff and external stakeholders to ensure successful program delivery aligned with state policy goals.

• Works closely with the Energy Storage leadership team to align the organization with a common strategy and support successful program design, implementation, and ensure operational excellence through analytical innovation and support of third-party programs and utility owned assets.

• Refine and implement the Company strategy for achieving NYS Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act (CLCPA) energy storage goals by working across other impacted groups within Customer Energy Solutions, Energy Management, and Central Operations.

• Lead energy storage needs including writing and managing regulatory filings such as petitions, rate cases, and/or whitepaper comments to represent the Company's interest, or in conjunction with internal or external parties, to convey the Company's position in energy storage related proceedings.

• Develop new energy storage opportunities to add business value and engage with stakeholders to promote the company's and customer's interests in energy storage.

• Lead effort with internal and external stakeholders to shape, integrate, and optimize multi-year storage portfolio goals and develop and prioritize strategic initiatives.

• Be a liaison between the storage organization and Area Station Planning, Engineering, and Analytics keeping apprised of potential needs and incorporating the storage groups most up to date modeling capabilities into the Area Station Planning and Analytics workflow.

• Assist in the development and running of the Company's bulk energy storage solicitations with a focus on quantitative support.

• Write implementation plans for new programs.

• Lead energy storage regulatory needs including annual reporting, petitions, and tariff adjustments for third party and utility owned assets.

• Work with internal stakeholders to identify additional value streams and use cases for future storage projects. Work with technical teams to write white papers supporting utility owned use cases, shepherd the projects through relevant regulatory processes, and lead financial analysis.

• Be the regulatory point person between the storage organization and groups involved with the Companies numerous monetization options for storage including DR, VDER, and various rate structures.

• Utilize and develop tools to calculate the value of energy storage systems for current and emerging use cases from the perspectives of the company, developers, and our customers.

• Assess Company systems and processes that will be used to operate the bulk energy storage systems and utility owned storage systems and make recommendations for improvements. In short term, work with commodity operations to establish a monthly reconcile differences between wholesale market performance and the anticipated perfectly optimized performance according to our internal tools. Incorporate findings into process improvement.

• Work with commodity operations to conduct a technological needs assessment.

• Develop presentations to effectively communicate with senior executives, regulators, and external stakeholders.

• Assist in communication and coordination with other utility and non-utility storage/Distributed Energy Resource (DER) teams to benchmark best practices, gather lessons learned, and identify potential new solutions for utility issues.

• Lead cross-functional teams responsible for new strategic department initiatives as necessary.

• Provide problem solving, guidance, and strategic support to the department.

• Perform other related tasks and assignments as required.

Required Education/Experience

• Bachelor's Degree and 8 years' work experience.

Preferred Education/Experience

• Bachelor's Degree Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering or equivalent and 8 years' work experience.

• Master's Degree Environmental policy, sustainability management, or MBA and 6 years' work experience.

Relevant Work Experience

• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, demonstrated by experience facilitating cross-functional meetings and crafting and delivering presentations to internal and external stakeholders, including executive audiences. Required

• Experience analyzing information, either technical or financial, and making recommendations based on that information and analysis. Required

• Ability to work effectively with ambiguity and comfortable leading in a dynamic environment. Required

• Demonstrated experience leading creative solutions to strategic challenges. Required

• Demonstrated success leading business or corporate strategy development. Required

• Well organized, detail oriented and flexible to handle multiple assignments and deadlines. Required

• Familiarity with the value stack tariff and demand response. Required

• Understanding of the main challenges of installing storage in NYC and the primary stakeholders. Required

• Experience implementing IT solutions. Preferred

• Relevant work experience in planning or strategy role. Preferred

• Work experience managing external contractors. Preferred

• Work experience related to energy storage, functional knowledge of storage capabilities and monetizing assets. Preferred

• Knowledge of NYC, NYS, and NYISO rules, regulations, and goals. Preferred

• Existing relationships across the many internal and external parties required for success. Preferred

• Experience writing and managing regulatory filings such as petitions, rate cases, and/or whitepaper comments. Preferred

Licenses & Certifications

• Driver's License Required

Other Physical Demands

• Must be able to respond to Company emergencies by performing a System Emergency Assignment to restore service to our customers.

Technical Difficulty Statement

• For technical issues, please contact us at [email protected]

Equal Opportunity Employer

• Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison), Orange & Rockland Utilities (O&R), and Consolidated Edison Transmission (CET) are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of the individual’s actual or perceived disability, protected veteran status, race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, domestic violence victim status, or any other actual or perceived status protected by law.