Xcel Energy is looking for an intern to support the System Protection Engineering staff in modeling electric power systems and performing short circuit studies, analyzing lightning data for event outages, and learning equipment testing procedures.
Requirements
- Completed 1 year of undergraduate coursework, including classes in basic circuits
- Experience and proficiency in spreadsheets.
Responsibilities
- Support in event analysis for outages by analyzing lightning correlation
- Short circuit modeling tasks for new assets, retired equipment processing, and distribution and transmission equipment modeling.
- Support laboratory testing of relays for firmware updates and protection scheme verification.
- Perform short-circuit coordination for distribution feeder relays using short circuit software and coordination module
- Assist in management of the protective relay database, including running of queries and verifying materials returned from the field
Other
- Current student, Sophomore status (as of May 2026) or higher
- Enrolled in an ABET accredited college or university and pursuing a degree in engineering (electrical, mechanical, civil, or chemical)
- Able to commute to the corporate office in Denver, CO.
- Able to work full-time during the summer (up to 40 hours a week). If the interns have proven that they are able to be productive or effective working remotely without supervision, then we can allow part time (min 8 hours/week) from home in the Fall 2026 semester and onwards. We will still require full-time every summer (40 hours/week) as hybrid in office on Tuesday-Thursdays.
- 2.8 GPA (out of a 4.0 scale) or higher
