Market Operations & Design Student Intern

Description

Student Intern to support design, development, and analysis of evolving electricity market operation across the U.S. wholesale electricity market regions.

This includes integrating emerging power system technologies, e.g., stand-alone electric storage resources, hybrid resources (storage plus renewables), distributed energy resources, grid enhancing technologies such as power flow controllers and topology optimization, into bulk electricity markets, hydrogen modeling, and analyzing market re-formulations and corresponding market implications.

Candidate will develop and implement participation models, perform electricity market simulations using advanced production cost tools, and / or perform statistical analysis on large data sets of electricity market operation.

Candidate will report back findings to the project lead and potentially external stakeholders.

Job functions :

Modeling and analysis of new market design proposals using advanced simulation tools

Report important findings to project lead and potentially external stakeholders

Collect large data sets and operational information from public data sources and analyze to track trends

Write up of findings through a complete study report

The ideal candidate :

Electrical engineering, operations research, economics, or similar master’s or PhD student with an understanding of electric power systems operations and economics, and / or and strong analytical skills

Understanding of wholesale electricity markets, including unit commitment, economic dispatch, and locational marginal pricing concepts

Experience in market simulation models and tools, such as production cost modeling, e.g., PSO, FESTIV, PLEXOS

Strong analytical skills and ability to analyze large data sets

Education :

Required Has begun master’s studies

Desired In PhD studies

Great opportunity to gain experience in industry focused R&D to set a candidate up for either a career in academia or industry, including exposure to EPRI and its members.

The hourly rate range for Student positions are :

• Undergraduate : $16-29 per hour
• Masters : $25-31 per hour
• Ph.D : $27-34 per hour

These ranges are an estimate, and the actual hourly rate may vary based on various factors, including without limitation applicant's education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

The hourly rate may also be adjusted based on applicant's geographic location.

As an EPRI Student, you will not participate in EPRI’s Benefit Programs which includes health insurance, retirement benefits, vacation, sick leave (except as set required by law) and holiday pay.

However, as a Student employee you are eligible for the benefits of Social Security, State Disability Insurance, and Workers’ Compensation Insurance.

For Student positions which require one to relocate to an EPRI office. Relocation assistance is not provided and the student will be responsible for covering all relocation costs / expenses.

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