Principal ISO/FERC Regulatory Analyst-Flexible Location

Requisition ID # 160903 

Job Category: Government and Regulatory Relations 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Corporate Affairs

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland; Alameda; Alta; American Canyon; Angels Camp; Antioch; Auberry; Auburn; Avenal; Avila Beach; Bakersfield; Balch Camp; Bear Valley; Belden; Bellota; Belmont; Benicia; Berkeley; Brentwood; Brisbane; Buellton; Burney; Buttonwillow; Calistoga; Campbell; Canyon Dam; Canyondam; Capitola; Caruthers; Chico; Clearlake; Clovis; Coalinga; Colusa; Concord; Concord; Corcoran; Cottonwood; Cupertino; Daly City; Danville; Davis; Dinuba; Downieville; Dublin; Emeryville; Eureka; Fairfield; Folsom; Fort Bragg; Fortuna; Fremont; French Camp; Fresno; Fresno; Fulton; Garberville; Geyserville; Gilroy; Goodyear; Grass Valley; Guerneville; Half Moon Bay; Hayward; Hinkley; Hollister; Holt; Houston; Huron; Jackson; Kerman; King City; Lakeport; Lemoore; Lincoln; Linden; Livermore; Lodi; Loomis; Los Banos; Lower Lake; Madera; Magalia; Manteca; Manton; Mariposa; Martell; Marysville; Maxwell; Menlo Park; Merced; Meridian; Millbrae; Milpitas; Modesto; Monterey; Montgomery Creek; Morgan Hill; Morro Bay; Moss Landing; Mountain View; Napa; Needles; Newark; Newman; Non-PG&E Non-US Off Shore Work Location; Non-PG&E US Work Location; Novato; Oakdale; Oakhurst; Oakley; Olema; Orinda; Orland; Oroville; Palo Alto; Palo Cedro; Paradise; Parkwood; Paso Robles; Petaluma; Pioneer; Pismo Beach; Pittsburg; Placerville; Pleasant Hill; Point Arena; Potter Valley; Quincy; Rancho Cordova; Red Bluff; Redding; Richmond; Ridgecrest; Rio Vista; Rocklin; Roseville; Round Mountain; Sacramento; Salida; Salinas; San Bruno; San Carlos; San Francisco; San Francisco; San Jose; San Luis Obispo; San Mateo; San Rafael; San Ramon; San Ramon; Sanger; Santa Cruz; Santa Maria; Santa Nella; Santa Rosa; Selma; Shaver Lake; Sonoma; Sonora; South San Francisco; Springville; Stockton; Storrie; Taft; Tracy; Turlock; Twain; Ukiah; Vacaville; Vallejo; Walnut Creek; Wasco; Washington; Washington D.C.; Watsonville; West Sacramento; Wheatland; Whitmore; Willits; Willow Creek; Willows; Windsor; Winters; Woodland; Yuba City

Department Overview

FERC & ISO Relations supports PG&E's Electric Engineering, Electric Operations, Energy Policy and Procurement, Gas Engineering and Gas Operations, Generation and Customer Care lines of business. FERC & ISO Relations is responsible for PG&E's strategy and advocacy involving the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) and manages the development, approval and implementation of federal policy and rulemaking proceedings at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) as well as all regulatory filings involving the CAISO.

Position Summary

The Principal Regulatory Analyst performs policy, regulatory, and strategic analysis of high complexity, scope, and significant financial impact in support of various CAISO stakeholder initiatives and regulatory proceedings. This will also include the development of advocacy strategy for assigned initiatives and proceedings. The successful candidate will lead and work with cross-functional projects and teams in conducting analyses and establishing regulatory policy and strategy. Analytical work may involve high-level support to management functions, such as: developing and administering regulatory filings; developing policy and programs; and conducting research. The Principal Regulatory Analyst will represent the Company in-person and through written comments and pleadings on issues of policy, high complexity, and/or significant financial impact. The scope of work includes key regulatory filings and stakeholder initiatives that may be controversial, precedent setting, and have significant financial impact.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. 

PG&E is providing the salary 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 salary 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. 

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $147,000
Bay Area Maximum: $251,000
&/OR
California Minimum: $140,000
California Maximum: $238,000

Job Responsibilities

1. Relationship Management and Policy Coordination:
•    Manage the relationship with the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), with an emphasis on issues to be addressed by the CAISO Board of Governors and the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) Governing Body.
•    Proactively advocate and communicate PG&E's positions to CAISO management and staff, and other stakeholders.
•    Manage relations with the FERC Staff on assigned topics.
•    Ensure that CAISO Board and EIM Governing Body level policy and business issues are identified and communicated to appropriate PG&E issue owners and provide support to PG&E issue owners as CAISO policies develop.
•    Communicate with internal clients (PG&E issue owners on CAISO issues and PG&E management and officers) about key CAISO Board policy, business, regulatory and governance issues affecting PG&E. Coordinate, develop and implement the Company's strategy in managing issues as they are considered by the CAISO Board and EIM Governing Body. Communicate results of CAISO Board meetings, EIM Governing Body meetings and other CAISO meetings to PG&E internal stakeholders. Act as the focal point for two-way feedback between PG&E and the CAISO on the ongoing business relationship between the entities.
 
2. Manage CAISO Stakeholder Process Responses and FERC Filings:
•    Work with PG&E counsel and PG&E's business line representatives to ensure that business issues, and regulatory and other legal matters are addressed in a timely and comprehensive manner. Lead interdepartmental efforts to develop PG&E's comments and engagement efforts on these matters.
•    Coordinate and work with business lines to translate PG&E's CAISO policy into public comments and input on active stakeholder initiatives. Manage PG&E's positions in FERC filings and CAISO stakeholder initiatives such as integration of renewables, distributed energy resources, energy storage, wholesale power market design, transmission planning, and grid interconnection. Represent PG&E at CAISO. Prepare timely briefing materials.
•    Coordinate cross functional teams, ensuring identification and resolution of current CAISO and FERC policy issues., Develop PG&E’s positions and advocacy strategies on assigned FERC electric policy issues such as wholesale electric market design, transmission planning, interconnection policy, and climate resiliency, as well as including FERC gas issues and rulemakings, investigations, etc
 
3. Build External Relationships:
•    Develop relationships with key external stakeholders who participate in CAISO stakeholder processes and its markets (California investor-owned utilities, utilities from other Western states, municipal utilities, consumer groups, independent power producers, State of California representatives and others involved in CAISO Board and EIM Governing Body matters).
 

Qualifications

Minimum:
 
•    Bachelors Degree in Business Administration or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
•    8 years’ experience with a focus in regulatory advocacy/analysis, market analysis, infrastructure development or financial analysis
 
Desired:
 
•    Master’s degree or MBA
•    Experience in a combination of the following functions related to the energy industry:
o    Advocacy to government agencies
o    Knowledge of wholesale power markets
o    Energy transmission/generation infrastructure development
o    Policy development
o    Research and analysis
•    Skilled knowledge of and/or experience in the functional lines of PG&E's electric and gas business, including energy markets, generation, procurement, transmission, distribution and customer services
•    Skilled in policy development, advocacy and PG&E programs (e.g., electric or gas procurement, demand response, wholesale market design, and other related programs).
•    Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of case management procedures and process
•    Understanding of State and Federal regulatory analysis principles, theory and practice
•    Excellent oral and written communication skills, including communicating with technical, management, executive, and lay audiences; ability to influence internal and external stakeholders, including PG&E clients, the CAISO Staff, and other market participants
•    Skilled in use of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
•    Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the Federal and California regulatory environment; understanding of Federal and California regulatory policies, history and key case precedents
 

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