Clearway Energy
Senior Associate, Market Fundamentals & Transmission - West
$160K–$180K
San Diego, California, United States +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- San Diego, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Minimum 4 years in an analytical role at an energy trading firm, bank, IPP, ISO, or utility; minimum 3 years using production cost modeling tools.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Power, Economics, and/or Business, or comparable.
- Visa sponsorship
- No visa sponsorship or any kind of sponsorship for employment authorization is available for this role, now or in the future.
About the job
Develops Western U.S. power-market forecasts and models to guide asset operations, risk management, project development, M&A, hedging, and project financing.
What you'll do
- Analyze short- and long-term Western power-market fundamentals, including prices, curtailment, transmission, load, generation, and fuel markets.
- Develop and maintain long-term market models, and use their insights to support asset operations, trading, risk management, development, and project siting.
- Automate and maintain modeling datasets; evaluate market conditions and validate external market and transmission studies.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Power, Economics, and/or Business, or comparable.
- Minimum of 4 years of analytical experience at an energy trading firm, bank, IPP, ISO, or utility.
- Power-market modeling experience, including zonal and capacity expansion modeling, capacity (RA) and REC price forecasting, and knowledge of CAISO, WECC BAS, and western market expansion.
- Minimum of 3 years of production cost modeling experience.
Nice to have
- Programming experience in Python and SQL.
- Understanding of zonal power-market fundamentals and WECC dynamics; renewable energy background.
Pay
$160,000–$180,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
Aurora, PROMOD, PLEXOS, Encompass, Python, SQL, Excel
AI focus
Use AI applications, Python, SQL, or Excel to automate input and output dataset flows within modeling ecosystems.
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