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NV Energy · 2 weeks ago

Sr Power Trader - Gen Desk

Las Vegas, NV

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

4+ years exp

NV Energy is one of the premier energy companies in the West, providing electricity to 1.3 million customers throughout Nevada. The Sr Power Trader - Gen Desk is responsible for facilitating power and gas trading activities, optimizing available resources, and ensuring compliance with all applicable regulations.

EnergyNatural ResourcesRenewable Energy

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Develops and implements operational plans for meeting customer demand while optimizing available resources

Assesses real-time operating conditions relative to generation, transmission, fuel, pipeline capacity and other related elements

Utilizes forecasting tools to trend and project hourly load forecasts for the current and forward real-time operating period

Utilizes modeling tools to create transaction grids and operational plans, interprets results and identifies modeling errors

Determines pricing and volume of purchase and sale transaction to optimize the portfolio of company owned resources

Develops remedial action recommendations in response to abnormal conditions (i.e. loss of generating units, reserve deficiency and/or as directed by the Balancing Authority)

Assists power traders with tagging and network transmissions reservations as needed for energy scheduling

Manages the usage of fuel and hydro allocations within operational and contractual constraints

Communicates with the Balancing Authority on generation schedules, reserve requirements and transactions needed for reliability

Supports participation within the EIM by reviewing and submitting hourly base schedules and focusing on passing hourly resource sufficiency evaluations

Reviews EIM performance data to identify dispatch anomalies and identify new strategies and opportunities for improvement

Provides Training As Required For Less Experienced Traders

Maintains logs and other related documentation as required

Produces reports and responds to data requests as needed

Ensures all compliance aspects of position are known and followed; understands and complies with all policies, codes and regulations applicable to position and company

Performs related duties as assigned

Qualification

Power system economicsEconomic dispatchElectric system operationsGenerator efficiencyEnergy tradingGeneration production cost modelingNERC regulationsWECC guidelinesPC proficiencySpreadsheet applicationsDatabase programsFast-paced environment

Required

Bachelor's degree from an accredited school and 4 years of experience in energy trading, balancing operations, or relevant experience

Candidates that do not possess a bachelor's degree must have a minimum of 8 years of related work experience

Power system economics, economic dispatch

Generator efficiency and energy trading

Electric system operations, generation production cost modeling, the Western Electric Coordinating Council (WECC) interconnected transmission system, NERC and WECC regulations/guidelines and the Western Systems Power Pool agreements

Working and concentrating in a fast-paced environment with short-decision time frame

PCs, word processing, spreadsheet and database programs

May require working a rotation shift schedule to cover 24x7 operations which includes nights, weekends, and holidays

Company

NV Energy

NV Energy is an Electric services company which provides Electricity and Natural Gas.

Founded in 1906

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.nvenergy.com

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