Calpine Corporation is America's largest generator of electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources. The company needs support in analyzing business decisions and strategic issues related to electricity and natural gas markets, transmission analysis, load forecasting, plant operations and dispatch, and asset and contract commodity margins.
Requirements
- Electrical engineering with power flow analysis experience and IT programming skills is highly desired.
- Demonstrated aptitude applying analytical tools such as Microsoft Excel, R, VBA, Python, PSSe, PowerWorld, UPLAN/PROMOD, SQL Server database or similar programming environments.
- Hands-on experience in Security-constrained unit commitment and Security-constrained economic dispatch
- Demonstrated understanding Microsoft Office products (VBA, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word)
- Knowledge of the energy industry, specifically ISOs, the independent power or utility sector, is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Electrical load flow studies associated with Calpine’s use of the electric transmission system.
- Data integrity, data automation, statistical inference, machine learning and data mining, to efficiently catch and interpret information in the transmission grid and power systems and its impact to the business
- Power grid network model development and validation
- Calpine’s proprietary production cost model based, LMP market modeling and analytics platform.
- Transmission system studies and market simulations, using power flow programs and market modeling platforms to identify transmission system capabilities and limitations, and determine risks and opportunities for Calpine’s generation assets and commercial positions.
- Hedging and trading activity support through CRRs/FTRs and other market transactions to help optimize Calpine’s portfolio.
- Regular short-term to mid-term market reports and forecasts.
Other
- Candidate should be working on a Bachelor’s or advanced degree in a quantitative or analytical field, such as electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics, statistics, business, economics, or physics at an accredited college or university.
- Must have at least three years of undergraduate coursework completed by the start of the internship. Graduate students also encouraged to apply.
- Minimum GPA 3.2
- Legally eligible to work in the United States now and in the future
- Able to work autonomously and under the pressure of multiple deadlines
