Posting Title

Undergraduate/Graduate (Summer) Intern – Simulation for EV Charging Station Placement

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Location

CO - Golden

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Position Type

Intern (Fixed Term)

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Hours Per Week

40

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Working at NREL

From day one at NREL, you’ll connect with coworkers driven by the same mission to save the planet. By joining an organization that values a supportive, inclusive, and flexible work environment, you’ll have the opportunity to engage through our ten employee resource groups, numerous employee-driven clubs, and learning and professional development classes.

NREL supports inclusive, diverse, and unbiased hiring practices that promote creativity and innovation. By collaborating with organizations that focus on diverse talent pools, reaching out to underrepresented demographics, and providing an inclusive application and interview process, our Talent Acquisition team aims to hear all voices equally. We strive to attract a highly diverse workforce and create a culture where every employee feels welcomed and respected and they can be their authentic selves.

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We invite all interested candidates to apply for this opportunity. While we recognize that job seekers may hesitate if they don’t meet every requirement, we encourage dedicated individuals who meet all the basic and additional required qualifications of the role to submit an application. We value the opportunity to consider those who believe they have the necessary skills and ambition to succeed at NREL.

Job Description

The Electric Vehicles and Grid Integration team within the Center for Integrated Mobility Sciences researchers how the grid can support rapid vehicle electrification with the least impacts, while improving energy resilience. This involves both site specific analysis, and grid level analysis into different charge management controls. The team conducts both simulated control evaluations and lab testing, as well as field demonstrations.

The EV-Cents project is part of the EVs@Scale Consortium and seeks to determine the benefits managed charging can bring to utilities, and especially to the distribution system. The intern hired under this requisition will work with researchers to develop analysis tools to quantify grid impacts and benefits of different charging control paradigms.

The intern will be responsible for:

• Development of impact metrics to quantify control impacts
• Statistical analysis of co-simulation results
• Geospatial analysis of distribution of impacts
• Writing and presenting a final report on their analysis

This experience will expose the intern to several assets within NREL including the optimization and control lab where control are tested on real equipment, the visualization lab where big data is analyzed more easily and geospatial analysis can be conducted, and the high performance computer for scaled analysis. The intern will also join consortium meetings where results from several national labs and other industry stakeholders are reviewed.

For more information, please visit:

https://www.nrel.gov/transportation/project-ev-grid-integration.html

https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/electric-vehicles-scale-consortium

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Basic Qualifications

Minimum of a 3.0 cumulative grade point average.

Undergraduate: Must be enrolled as a full-time student in a bachelor’s degree program from an accredited institution.
Post Undergraduate: Earned a bachelor’s degree within the past 12 months. Eligibl