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Vice President, Transmission & Interconnection

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Vice President, Transmission & Interconnection

Remote

Competitive salary and benefits

(The successful applicant can either be fully remote within proximity to an (US) airport for ease of business travel or near the US headquarters of Houston, Texas)

If you are a technical, utility scale transmission and interconnection leader then we want to hear from you. Join us and help make a meaningful contribution to the energy transition that the world needs.

About Renewco Power:

Renewco Power is a renewable energy developer established in 2021 and backed by Corran Capital with funding from SSE Plc. Our focus is on developing utility scale solar PV, onshore wind, BESS, and green hydrogen projects across four primary markets: UK, US, Spain, and Italy. We are committed to the energy transition by continuing to build a leading renewable development platform and to develop more than 12GW of construction ready projects across these technologies and countries within the next 5 years.

Renewco's leadership is a highly experienced and entrepreneurial group with over 120 years of combined renewable energy development and investment experience, having successfully developed more than +15GW of renewable energy in over 50 countries, and raising more than $2.4 billion in project finance. During the first 18 months of Renewco, we have secured more than $55M in funding, established a strong, diverse team of +40 energy professionals with a shared focus and commitment that we will make an impactful contribution to the global renewable energy marketplace.

We believe that our seasoned team, our shared multi country execution strategy, and our partnership approach to business coupled with our flexible mandate, will enable Renewco to originate and develop viable renewable energy projects and make a meaningful contribution to the energy transition that the world needs.

The role:

Reporting to CDO, this is a technical role that requires both a technical and commercial skill set as well as strategic planning capability. We are looking for proven experience and technical expertise to help develop and execute the US greenfield strategy.

You will be directly involved in the day-to-day project decisions. The scope is broadly the US, your initial focus will be in SPP, MISO, ERCOT, PJM, and WECC.

Key responsibilities:

* Provide hands-on leadership to a team of utility scale renewable energy developers engaged in regional injection capacity analysis and the various interconnection processes inclusive of quantifying the financial fees, risks, and securities required from interconnection submission through SGIA execution and project commissioning.

* Work with the CDO to develop and execute the US greenfield strategy.

* Lead all interactions and maintain productive relationships with ISOs, RTOs, transmission service providers, and industry consultants throughout the project lifecycle to facilitate timely execution.

* Responsible for the interconnection studies process, advising the development team about the risks and various options to get to construction ready within strategic timelines.

* Manage multiple interconnection efforts for projects in the pipeline at different development stages.

* From the interconnection perspective, manage the technical review of key project equipment including inverters, main power transformers, and HV circuit breakers.

* Collaborate in the building and refinement of internal processes, securing and managing external consultants, supporting Development's drafting and revising of projects' schedules and budgets, representing the firm at industry conferences, and participating in the leadership of the US Development team.

* Originating and completing due diligence on acquisition targets of renewable energy projects in select markets.

* Transparent and timely project reporting.

* Explore potential fit of new software platforms supporting project transmission and injection capacity scenario analysis.

About you:

* +12 years of high voltage interconnection experience with renewable energy projects with recent +4 years of management experience.

* Able to thrive in remote, entrepreneurial work environment.

* Experience in core power markets (SPP, MISO, ERCOT, PJM, and WECC) is required.

* Comfortable leading a team of internal colleagues and external consultants focused on making continual interconnection progress on several projects through different stages of development.

* Recent experience working with interconnection design process including optimizing project one-line diagrams and familiar with project modelling with PSSE and PSCAD.

* Deep understanding of building strong working relationships with ISOs, utilities, and transmission services providers.

* Be approachable and lead by example with a high degree of integrity and professional drive, balanced with empathy.

* Effective, agile thinker and leadership contributor with relentless drive and a focus on the details.

* Work well within multi-disciplined teams across several time zones.

* Be goal-orientated while maintaining an organized leadership style to enable team empowerment and accountability.

* Be able to problem solve by communicating with management your option analysis and recommended solution.

* Have demonstrated grit and determination to lead team toward project milestone goals.

* Excellent written and oral communication skills especially in remote work environment.

* Willing to travel up to 30% domestically, with occasional trip to Europe.

* Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, or similar bachelor's degree preferred.

Apply today in confidence and we will get back to you.

By applying for this role, your details will be sent to Ortolan People, who are engaged to provide recruitment support in processing applications. We will endeavour to respond to all applicants within three working days. Occasionally for roles with a very high volume of applicants, this may not be possible.

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