Renewables Interconnection Engineer

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Senior level
Energy • Utilities
The Role
The Renewables Interconnection Engineer collaborates on utility-scale projects, supports interconnection processes, evaluates alternatives, performs simulations, and provides assessments of transmission market dynamics.
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Description

Onsite preferred in Austin, TX or Chicago, IL

Duration: 6-12 months

Job Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with Development and other teams on market and site selection for utility-scale wind, solar, and storage facilities, focusing primarily on the Eastern Interconnection (MISO, PJM, SPP, SERC).
  • Support the interconnection process for projects, including assessing interconnection options, filing necessary applications, evaluating utility technical studies, and developing interconnection strategies.
  • Develop a thorough understanding and evaluation of potential interconnection alternatives for various projects, considering costs, benefits, and challenges.
  • Provide assessments of transmission market dynamics, such as LMPs, nodal basis risks, and congestion risks.
  • Perform power flow, MISO ERIS/NRIS, and PJM GD analysis to provide actionable information for internal stakeholders.
  • Scope, request, review, and verify interconnection studies and other analyses from transmission providers and consultants.
  • Track transmission projects and overall transmission development within various markets.
  • Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of regional transmission systems and providers.
  • Duplicate studies performed by transmission providers for QA/QC, often working on short timelines with incomplete information.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
  • Experience performing simulations using TARA (MISO ERIS/NRIS, PJM GD), Powerworld, and/or PSCAD
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in Transmission and Interconnection
  • Strong knowledge of generation interconnection studies and the queue application process.
  • Ability to prioritize requests and resolve multiple issues across various projects under demanding schedule constraints.
  • Thorough knowledge of FERC transmission tariffs, interconnection processes, and NERC standards.
  • Willingness and ability to travel if required.

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience in Generation Interconnection within any RTO (MISO/PJM is preferred)
  • Coding experience is preferred
Benefits

MWResource offers medical, dental and vision coverage through Capital Blue Cross, short- and long-term disability coverage, employer paid life insurance, and participation in the MWResource 401K plan for US based consultants.

MWResource does not discriminate based on race, gender, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or anything else that makes you part of any group.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.

Candidates will be required to pass a background check and drug screening.

Please note we are not open to outsourcing our recruitment needs.

Top Skills

Powerworld
Pscad
Tara
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The Company
HQ: Allentown, PA
49 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

MWResource provides our customers with the experienced energy industry experts to assist you with designing, implementing, and maintaining successful critical energy infrastructure systems. MWResource specializes in utility SCADA, Energy Management Systems (EMS) and energy market systems.

MWResource is also helping its other customers in both the US and Canada fill their permanent and project related openings with experienced SCADA, EMS, and energy market systems professionals.

Our company offers a pool of experienced energy industry experts who have worked with data acquisition, plant and grid control, energy markets, settlements and IT technologies used by power generation companies, power cooperatives, municipal utilities, investor owned utilities, and major energy markets.

MWResource experts provide a variety of services including:
- Consulting
- Project Management
- System Design Assistance
- Applications Development
- Database and Display Development and Migration
- System Configuration and Integration
- Systems and Communications Commissioning
- Software Configuration Management
- OSIsoft PI Project Support
- Auditing and Compliance
- Software Quality Assurance
- Training
- Permanent Employee Recruiting
- Temporary Project and Support Staffing

Some of the major systems areas where we have expertise are:
- CIP/Control Center Systems especially Energy Management Systems (EMS) and Distribution Management Systems (DMS)
- SCADA/RTU/Relay communications
- OSI PI Historian
- Power System Modelling and Planning Support
- ISO/RTO market systems
- ISO/RTO settlement and web systems
- Market participant interfaces
- Enterprise Application Integration

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