Transmission Market Analysis Manager

As the Manager, Transmission Market Analysis, you will be responsible for helping enhance, elevate, and drive our in-house market analysis and forecasting capabilities. This role will help shape the future of our projects by leveraging historical market and pricing data as well as in-house and third-party forecast data to inform future strategies. You will help implement industry software tools and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure our analyses are robust, accurate, and actionable. 

As a critical driver behind our market analysis efforts, you will play a key role in helping to shape the 

direction of Scout's greenfield development and acquisitions targets. As a SME with experience in production cost modeling, stochastic dispatch analysis, and/or transmission congestion assessment, you will be instrumental in providing analysis and insights that drive key decisions across our development, origination, structuring, M&A, financing, and asset management teams. By aiding in the continued calibration of industry-leading software and bringing additional technical depth to the Scout team you will empower us to forecast market trends with accuracy and efficiency. You will report to the Director, Transmission Market Analysis. 

Key Responsibilities 

1. Market Analysis, Forecasting, and Support: 

• Analyze and forecast nodal pricing and broader market trends, utilizing historical data analysis ("backcasts") and future pricing predictions. 

• Identify potential risks related to grid reliability and economic feasibility of projects, advising on necessary upgrades and system improvements. 

• Assist in implementation and use of advanced software tools for price forecasting and market analysis, ideally with experience using nodal production cost modeling software like PROMOD, Dayzer, PLEXOS, EnCompass, or similar tools. 

2. New Project Development and Origination Support: 

• Assist in identifying new sites by analyzing historical data and forecast data to infer strategic opportunities. 

• Evaluate historical and forecast nodal prices at substations to determine the strength or potential issues from a nodal pricing perspective. 

• Collaborate with third-party data providers to process historical data, integrating their insights to form comprehensive opinions on site viability. 

• Facilitate renewable energy project developer access to market analysis, providing necessary insights without requiring them to be experts in locational marginal pricing (LMP) or SCED (security-constrained economic dispatch). 

3. Structuring, Asset Management, M&A, and Financing Support: