Director of Transmission

COMPANY OVERVIEW 

174 Power Global, headquartered in Irvine, California, is an affiliate of Hanwha Group, a FORTUNE Global 500 firm that is among the eight largest business enterprises in South Korea. 174 Power Global designs, builds and manages renewable energy and storage solutions. The company brings over a decade of global leadership in renewable PV and energy storage to North America, combining best-of-world technology, processes, and partnerships to deliver large scale utility-grade energy solutions customized for local energy markets and customers. 174 Power Global offers the full spectrum of energy solutions from power plant and energy storage development, design, and construction to long-term operations, and maintenance. The company is actively advancing early and mid-stage developments in major markets across North America.  With proven capabilities across the renewable energy value chain, 174 Power Global minimizes uncertainty, and helps customers achieve a higher and lower risk return from renewable energy investments.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Transmissions Director will serve as the company’s subject matter expert in technical transmission analysis, and regulatory and interconnection and transmission policy to advance interconnection and transmission related activities.  Specifically, he or she will identify, prioritize and launch future renewable PV generation and battery energy storage development opportunities.  Included are researching and reporting the development and execution plan of utility/ISO transmission expansion and merchant transmission opportunities in the context of an in-depth understanding of future policy, regulations, integrated transmission resource planning.  He or she will monitor FERC Order 2023-A, FERC Order 1920, transmission expansion plan, resource adequacy, integrated resource planning, and system congestion to identify mid-term development opportunities while working to preserve and advance existing project interconnection and transmission related entitlements.  The greenfield and project development team is the primary customer to secure and advance these future, mid-term and near-term opportunities. 

• Responsibilities include selection and utilization of industry standard in-house and subscription-based analysis tools to understand current market conditions and future opportunities for transmission business growth along with existing and planned merchant transmission projects that can support generator and BESS development opportunities.  Through thorough in-depth analysis of load growth forecasts and system upgrades, the Transmission Director will evaluate changing federal and state policy and regulatory frameworks in partnership with Government and Regulatory Affairs teams to select and quantify new and existing business opportunities.  The Transmission Director will cultivate and maintain key external stakeholder and consultant relationships.
• The Transmission Director will manage assembly and submission of interconnection requests and modifications in support of selected opportunities.  Specifically, he or she will analyze impacts to 174 Power Global’s existing queue positions created by new transmission reform and upgrades both approved and planned.  The Transmission Director will participate with utilities, ISO transmission system policy planners and related tariff and industry trade and stakeholder groups to advance favorable reform, resolve regulatory hurdles and reconcile tariff requirements to project development and operational requirements.  
• He or she will review and validate interconnection study report results, report findings to quantify financial and schedule risk and make recommendations to optimize network upgrade financial and schedule risk-based decision making.  The Director of Transmission will advocate for and secure capacity and transmission rights.  Management of consultants to provide additional resources and expertise will also be required as needed along with conducting due diligence review of early to mid-stage project acquisition opportunities, and project support from development through execution to operation and sale.  Being a team player is a “must.”

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree, in Engineering preferably Electrical Engineering or Power Systems Engineering
• 7+  years of experience in large scale renewable generation (50 MW or larger) working with independent system operators (ISOs) and regional transmission owners (RTOs) including energy and capacity markets, transmission planning, congestion management, utility resource planning, state regulatory engagement, and related market design and operations
• Strong cross-functional fluency in interconnection tariff procedures and requirements and electrical engineering and working knowledge of Utility-scale renewable energy operations (Solar, Battery Storage)
• Power flow modeling experience with PSS/E, PSLF, TARA, and/or PowerWorld and exposure to economic transmission market planning and analysis - PROMOD
• Demonstrated history of consistently sourcing and advancing projects through various stages of development to start of construction
• Strong organizational, communicative and people skills contributing to a strong team player approach and individual initiative is required: the candidate should be a hands-on creative problem solver with the ability to multi-task while aligning priorities with team focus;
• Microsoft office suite proficiency required.

• The position includes opportunity for advancement into a broader and more strategic general development role on the foundation of interconnection and transmission as a fundamental initial screen for project development and may include technical support of the company’s nascent digital infrastructure, hydrogen and other affiliated businesses.  This position reports to the Sr. Director of Interconnection and Land Development or other VP or higher-ranking designee with dotted line responsibility to regional managers and strategic planners.  Travel may be required but is generally limited to one to five day/nights per quarter.  Remote location is permissible.

Attention external recruitment firms, we will not accept any unsolicited resumes at this time. Please do not contact any internal member of our company to discuss the position or to solicit candidates.

174 Power Global provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

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