Lead Analyst, US Electricity Market Analytics Job Details | National Grid

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Design and execute forward-looking scenarios (e.g., policy cases, interconnection constraints, storage adoption, thermal retirements, transmission upgrades) and quantify portfolio/financial implications under uncertainty.
• Lead production cost and capacity expansion modeling to inform investment cases, long-term resource plans, and business strategy; translate model outputs into clear recommendations and trade-offs for senior decision-makers.
• Continuously enhance in-house market models and data pipelines, including documenting methodologies, updating input datasets (fuel/CO2 prices, load shapes, renewable profiles, transmission constraints), and instituting version control and model governance.
• Synthesize market, historical, and fundamental data (ISO/RTO data, interconnection queues, capacity auctions, fuel markets) to inform model inputs, validate outputs, and produce decision-ready dashboards and narratives.
• Explain market dynamics and model mechanics—including LMP formation, congestion, ancillary services, capacity market constructs, and resource adequacy—to executives and non-technical stakeholders; clearly articulate how these drivers affect outcomes.
• Partner with internal teams to provide timely, ad-hoc market analysis and what-if modeling to support critical decisions.
• Mentor analysts and champion modeling best practices, including documentation standards, code review, and model performance monitoring.

Requirements

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related quantitative field (power systems emphasis desired).
• Deep, hands-on expertise with production cost modeling and capacity expansion modeling in a consulting, ISO/RTO, or corporate environment; proven ability to design scenarios and convert results into business decisions.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience providing quantitative analysis, production cost modeling, capacity expansion modeling and/or consulting.
• Proficiency with commercial market modeling tools such as PSO/Enelytix, ProMOD, PLEXOS, Aurora, GridView, or GE MAPS; experience building/maintaining custom workflows around these tools.
• Advanced analytical and programming skills in Python and Excel; experience automating data ingestion, scenario runs, and post-processing; ability to build clear dashboards/visuals (e.g., Power BI).
• Strong electricity market knowledge, including transmission and power flow fundamentals, LMP formation, congestion management, ancillary services, capacity markets, and resource adequacy; specific familiarity with the Eastern Interconnection strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with trends in conventional generation, renewables, storage, gas, transmission, and distributed resources, and their market/operational implications.
• Clear, concise communicator able to explain model assumptions, limitations, and results to both technical and executive audiences; strong stakeholder management skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with trends in conventional generation, renewables, storage, gas, transmission, and distributed resources.
• Familiarity with the Eastern Interconnection.

Qualifications

• Educational background in Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related quantitative field.

Benefits & Perks

• Rewarding work and a collaborative, team-oriented culture.
• Salary range of $139k - $155k per year.
• Career advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position.
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