Programme Lead - Power Markets

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About the Organization

The Council on Energy, Environment and Water is one of Asia’s leading not-for-profit policy research institutions. CEEW uses data, integrated analysis, and strategic outreach to explain – and change – the use, reuse, and misuse of resources.

Job Description

The Indian power market is evolving rapidly. The increasing share of variable renewable energy in the electricity system requires a flexible grid, financially sound and efficient power distribution companies and demand to serve as a resource. Achieving these outcomes would need dynamic regulations, new business models, innovative financial instruments, and robust institutional frameworks.

To enhance grid flexibility, CEEW team studies the current and future power systems to inform planning and operations, and procurement and dispatch of electricity in cost-effective ways. We undertake grid simulation exercises, techno-economic analyses for emerging solutions such as large-scale energy storage systems, and identify solutions that enable market-based procurement of electricity and effective transmission utilisation.

The candidate in this role will undertake studies on power system modelling and undertake quantitative and qualitative analysis of issues concerning integration and offtake of renewable energy. The candidate will work extensively on an open source modelling tool named GridPath and CEEW’s internal data analytics platforms.

Job Responsibilities

Programme strategy and management

• Contribute to advancing the programme strategy by building on the team’s ongoing work in the sector, emerging challenges in power system planning and operations, and government priorities.
• Engage with donors, as well as new and potential partners to further the work programme objectives.
• Ideate new research concepts with team members, develop project proposals and budgets, secure resources for building and expanding the work programme, and deliver high-quality, timely outputs.
• Strategise communication and outreach of research outputs and ensure implementation of outreach plans.
• Support team members to work on their strengths and complement each other for driving impact.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key policymakers and sector stakeholders based on trust and credibility.

Research

• Conceptualise and implement modelling studies related to electricity generation and transmission planning, establishing the value and role of diverse clean energy and storage technologies in meeting demand across states and regions, and simulating future power system operations at the national and sub-national level.
• Analyse existing transmission plans, interconnection regulations, grid code, national transmission committee proceedings and state-level practices on transmission planning and operations to track progress and emerging challenges.
• Evaluate international best practices in transmission planning, congestion management and optimisation of transmission assets such as market-based approaches, and time-of-use pricing.
• Lead efforts to build input databases for modelling exercises by designing templates and enabling data collection from concerned departments and stakeholders at the state-level.
• Conduct regular discussions with stakeholders, especially with state agencies, transmission asset owners, RE and storage industry players and other research organisations to discuss emerging issues, and potential solutions and alternate models for faster deployment of RE and storage capacities and effective utilisation and build-out of transmission networks.
• Regularly track important policy and regulatory developments in the sector and conduct rigorous literature review for informing the modelling efforts of the team.
• Write high-quality research reports, papers for leading peer-reviewed journals, and generate knowledge content through blogs, policy briefs, memos and presentations, and other research communication materials.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• A PhD/master’s degree in power systems/power systems management, operations research, energy economics, and related fields.

Experience

• 8-10 years of relevant work experience.
• Knowledge of power markets in advanced and emerging economies will be an advantage.

Key skills

• Strong analytical and research skills, and proficiency in using tools such as PSS/E and DIgSILENT.
• Knowledge of models used for power system dispatch optimisation and adequacy assessments such as Plexos, GridPath etc..
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python.
• Stakeholder engagement and influencing.
• Ability to learn new tools to manage, process and drive insights from datasets.
• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team and deliver timely outputs.

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