to help secure our future.
Join us at Gentari to be part of this exciting, purposeful journey towards a cleaner energy future.
Gentarians are passionate about sustainability - our purpose is to solve the world’s most pressing sustainable energy needs. Here at Gentari, we move differently. Teams seek out opportunities to work with one another to achieve shared goals and we trust our people with the freedom and autonomy in ways of working to spur innovative thinking and creativity. We aim to keep good people at the heart of what we do by ensuring that our people feel empowered to chart career paths alongside personal growth. Beyond the promise of an open and flexible work environment, we hope to make Gentari feel like a second home, a place where everyone is valued, and differences are celebrated.
Energy Planning and Optimization (EP&O) is housed within the Strategy and Portfolio function, and acts as an internal advisor to the Renewable Energy and Hydrogen Business units of the Gentari Group. The EP&O team supports the business units in fleshing out the optimized technology mix for project appraisal opportunities in Malaysia, India and Australia. Additionally, the EP&O team prepares and delivers long-term scenario-based forecast of prices for Australia, which enables the business in projecting asset revenue and value new investments in the market.
The individual in this role will support the Power Modelling Manager in the development and maintenance of the PLEXOS models, along with other modelling tools that are under development, that are used to estimate the optimized technology mix for proposed projects, long term price forecast for some of Gentari’s key markets - Australia and India to begin with, and capacity expansion planning models for key markets to understand the market potential, appetite for new investments and to assess the impact of key policy shifts in the market.
The role will involve working with the Strategy and Portfolio team as well as teams across the wider business units to ensure that Gentari’s modelling meets the needs of the internal customers.
Responsibilities
- Supporting the development and maintenance of Gentari’s long term power market modelling.
- Work closely with businesses to provide the commercial analytical support required to underpin long-term investment decisions, asset valuation and other strategic decision making.
- Develop, operate and maintain long-term fundamental models for a range of power markets and purposes.
- Engage with internal stakeholders to ensure modelling approaches and assumptions are aligned with market realities and the impact of these assumptions are understood by our stakeholders.
Qualifications & skills
- Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., Business Administration, Finance, Economics) or advanced degree (e.g., MBA)
- Minimum 5 years in a similar capacity.
- Understanding of the electricity markets - at-least in one of our major markets (India, Malaysia or Australia).
- Good business acumen and commercial awareness; able to focus on commercial insights gained through modelling.
- Prior experience in using power system modelling tools, preferably PLEXOS
- Ability to use Python or other languages would be strongly beneficial.
- Self-driven and can work without limited supervision.
For talent pipelining purpose, due to the heavy traffic of CVs, only qualified candidates will be notified.
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What We Do
ur purpose is to solve the world’s most pressing sustainable energy needs, to change how we live today and to help secure our future.
Gentari is a clean energy solutions company, wholly owned by PETRONAS, tasked to independently pursue and deliver integrated sustainable energy solutions. We offer lower carbon solutions through three initial core pillars – Renewable Energy, Hydrogen and Green Mobility, forming a portfolio of solutions cutting across the electron value chain to help customers achieve net zero emissions.
We, the Gentarians, are a collaborative and innovative bunch of socially responsible people focused on putting clean energy into action by solving the needs of our commercial, industrial, and retail customers. We dream big, and we set even bigger goals;
- To build an overall renewable energy capacity of 30-40 GW of installed capacity in key markets through utility-scale projects across solar, onshore and offshore wind, and battery storage by 2030
- To offer cost-competitive low carbon hydrogen solutions with an aspiration to produce up to 1.2 MTPA of clean hydrogen by 2030
- To support the EV ecosystem by capturing more than 10% of the Charging Points and Vehicle-as-a-Service market share across key countries in Asia Pacific by 2030
Launched in September 2022, we are driven by an entrepreneurial spirit to build Gentari into a full suite net zero solutions provider, creating greater value, connecting businesses, and making the journey to net zero simpler.
