Grid Innovation Delivery Intern

Requisition ID # 163682 

Job Category: Administrative / Clerical 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Grid Innovation Delivery Intern – Program Strategy Development

Grid Innovation Delivery

Spend your summer with PG&E’s Grid Innovation Delivery (GID) team and help us make the grid of the future a reality!

The Grid Innovation Delivery team scales new innovative technologies and solutions into standard tools and products that PG&E utilizes to deliver for our hometowns and serve our planet. The team is a bridge between early R&D innovation efforts and established operational organizations. Grid Innovation Delivery (GID) executes a comprehensive set of activities to successfully deploy and operate new technologies and concepts including solution strategy, identification and development of deployments, new process creation, IT system integration, solution standardization and post-deployment field operations & maintenance. The team steers towards quickly scaling new technology programs into a well-documented, sustainable and mature state that can achieve long term success within PG&E’s existing lines of business.

Remote Grid (RG) is the GID team’s cornerstone program. Remote Grids cost-effectively address wildfire risk by serving customers with fully islanded (24/7/365) microgrids of solar, batteries, and fuel-powered generation. Once built, PG&E permanently removes the high-risk overhead power lines. The GID team deployed and currently operates nine RGs with plans to grow the fleet to two dozen in the next two years. See the RG Program page here, as well as media coverage from the PG&E newsroom here.

Position Summary:

The Grid Innovation Delivery team is seeking a curious, tenacious graduate student to join us for the summer of 2025. We’re looking for someone eager to learn about California’s energy system and who’s interested in thinking about how a utility can scale up the deployment of new technology to best serve customers. You’ll be asked to help us craft the scope of your internship in your first weeks on the job to make sure that your summer experience at PG&E meets your goals and interests.

You’ll join a friendly team of 13 individuals with varied backgrounds spanning engineering, policy, product management, process improvement, and more.

PG&E is providing the hourly rate range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job.  The actual hourly rate paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. 

The hourly rate for a bachelor’s degree rang is 32.60 to $36.42.

Responsibilities

This position will primarily be focused on supporting a new effort to develop a Non-Wires Alternative (NWA) program where utility-owned Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) can be deployed faster and more cost effectively than traditional ‘wires’ solutions.  You’ll collaborate with our regular standups and working meetings and join us as we work with teams across PG&E on developing the new program. You’ll also complete individual work related to financial analysis, technology assessment and/or product development to help shape the NWA project and program strategy. You’ll be asked to provide a final presentation to close out your internship to Grid Innovation Delivery about your learnings, accomplishments, and recommendations for how we can improve.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Earning a Master’s degree in engineering, business or related degree at an accredited university and returning to school in the fall to continue your education toward a degree

Desired:

• Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Demonstrated interest in today’s energy landscape and how it’s shaped by regulatory and market forces
• Demonstrated interest in sustainability and climate resilience
• Demonstrated interest in new technology and product development
• Familiarity with data analytics and financial modeling
• Ability to translate complex technical information into compelling stories for a wide range of audiences
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment and support fellow team members
• Ability to take initiative and work independently
• Growth mindset, curiosity, and desire to learn and develop

PG&E is unable to provide VISA sponsorship to students on an F-1, J-1 or other student visa for this position.