Grid Innovation Delivery Summer Intern - Operational Data Analysis

Requisition ID # 163683 

Job Category: Administrative / Clerical 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Grid Innovation Delivery Summer Intern – Operational Data Analysis

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: Summer Internship

The Grid Innovation Delivery team is seeking a curious, tenacious college 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 scaling 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. This position is hybrid with the expectation of working in PG&E’s General Office in downtown Oakland, CA approximately 2 days per week.

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. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.

The hourly rate for a bachelor’s degree is $19.91 to 29.81 and for a master’s degree is range from 32.60 to 36.42.

Responsibilities

This position will primarily be focused on supporting assessment of PG&E’s Remote Grid fleet (11 operating systems as of the end of 2024). You’ll learn about the Remote Grid technology (solar, battery, generator standalone power systems) and PG&E’s associated operating and maintenance processes. You’ll participate in regular standups and working meetings and join us as we work with teams across PG&E to improve the Remote Grid program. You’ll also complete individual work related to collecting and analyzing Remote Grid operational data and creating systems for tracking key milestones so we can report on the progress we’re making to mature the program. 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 Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in an accredited university and returning to school in the fall to continue your education toward a degree.
• Students Must be returning back to school in the Fall of 2025 fulltime.

Desired:

• Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Coursework and/or experience with data analytics
• 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
• Ability to translate complex technical information into compelling stories
• 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.