Project Manager, Asset Management – PV, BESS
Job Description:
- Monitor energy storage asset performance, ensuring systems operate above contractual obligations.
- Oversee troubleshooting and resolution of technical issues with battery management systems, inverters, and other storage components.
- Analyze operational data to identify underperformance and collaborate with O&M and LTSA providers, and other partners to resolve issues.
- Coordinate with O&M and LTSA providers to ensure efficient preventive and predictive maintenance.
- Develop and refine models to assess lifecycle costs and profitability of storage assets.
- Identify cost-savings opportunities and build business cases to support.
- Monitor PV plant performance (Performance Ratio, Availability) against P50/P90 energy yield projections.
- Analyze solar-specific data such as DC/AC ratios, inverter clipping, and degradation rates to identify underperformance.
- Oversee troubleshooting for PV-specific components like trackers, modules, and combiner boxes.
- Analyze market data to ensure revenue opportunities, such as energy arbitrage or ancillary services, are performing above contractual obligations.
- Provide oversight to development and implementation of optimization strategies for energy storage dispatch.
- Manage revenue streams for PV-only assets, including PPA compliance, REC (Renewable Energy Certificate) tracking, and merchant solar exposure.
- Ensure accurate forecasting for solar generation to minimize imbalance charges in wholesale markets.
- Serve as the go to for asset questions and analysis.
- Develop and maintain performance dashboards and KPIs for energy storage assets.
- Prepare performance and financial reports for internal stakeholders, investors, lenders, and regulators.
- Prepare or support all sustainability reporting requirements.
- Support or oversee compliance with all operational project documents
- Manage contracts with O&M providers, equipment vendors, and software service providers.
- Ensure compliance with interconnection agreements, market rules, and regulatory requirements.
- Oversee warranty claims and ensure vendor obligations are met.
- Support budgeting and forecasting for operational expenses and capital improvements.
- Support and oversee monthly and quarterly variance reporting to tell a clear story of financial and operational asset performance.
- Support tracking model results and associated story for investor and lender reporting.
- Analyze and report on the impacts of ITC vs. PTC on the asset's long-term cash flow and tax equity structures.
- Support tracking and reporting for solar-specific environmental attributes and sustainability metrics
- Serve as a point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, including investors, utilities, and market operators (as needed)
- Collaborate with internal team to evaluate new energy storage project opportunities or expansions.
Requirements:
- You have 4–6 years of experience in utility-scale solar PV generation and energy storage or energy market analytics with a dispatchable asset focus.
- Strong understanding of PV system design, tracking systems, bifacial module performance, energy storage technologies, market dynamics, and dispatch optimization strategies.
- Experience in wholesale energy markets (e.g., CAISO, PJM, ERCOT) is a plus.
- Proficiency in data analysis tools (e.g., Python, R, Excel, Power BI).
- Experience with PV monitoring platforms (e.g., AlsoEnergy, Power Factors) and solar modeling tools.
- Familiarity with energy storage control platforms, such as battery management systems or SCADA.
- Experience with project documents and contracts pertaining to utility-scale PV and BESS plants, including EPC warranties, Performance Guarantees, and long-term land leases.
- Excellent organizational and project management skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, finance, energy systems, or a related field.
- Advanced degree (MBA, MS) is a plus.
Benefits:
- ⌨️ Remote work, forever!
- Competitive benchmarked compensation
- Health and Retirement Benefits
- Flexible Time Off
- Exciting, mission-driven work that has impact
- Regular Company offsites
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