TAR
Head of Interconnection & Transmission
Austin · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 15, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years; includes at least one generation project personally taken from queue entry through commercial operations.
About the job
Leads interconnection, transmission, ERCOT market participation, and revenue strategy for TAR’s West Texas campus and future campuses, while ensuring grid export is never required for islanded operations.
What you'll do
- Manage ERCOT generation interconnection from queue entry through commissioning approvals and commercial operations; lead point-of-interconnection selection, gen-tie development, and TSP negotiations.
- Define export architecture and lead ERCOT market entry, including resource registration, QSE management, storage participation, settlement, and credit.
- Develop export and storage monetization, curtailment economics, regulatory engagement, and a repeatable interconnection playbook for future campuses.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of experience in ERCOT interconnection, transmission development, or wholesale market operations, including personally taking at least one generation project from queue entry through commercial operations.
- Deep ERCOT fluency, including nodal market design, Planning Guide and Protocols, Private Use Networks, resource registration, and TSP processes.
- Working relationships across ERCOT staff, TSPs, QSEs, and the PUCT.
- Ability to build revenue models and operate as a fast, lean, initially solo function.
Nice to have
- Storage market participation, including ESR registration and ancillary services strategy.
- Experience with co-located load and generation or large-load interconnection policy; multi-ISO exposure and a power systems engineering background are also noted as nice-to-haves.
Pay
Up to $15K (relocation bonus)
Tools
ERCOT, Private Use Network (PUN), BESS, ESR, QSE, PUCT, WECC, SPP
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