Early Career - Policy Principal - Wholesale Electricity Markets - MISO/SPP

About Advanced Energy United

Advanced Energy United is a national industry association representing businesses that provide the full range of advanced energy and transportation solutions. Our team works to educate, advocate, and activate in decisionmaker venues across the country.

We advocate for public policies that enable competition and work alongside our member companies to create economic opportunity, lower consumer costs, and bolster energy reliability and resilience across the country. We work with decision makers at every level of government as well as regulators of energy markets to build progress toward an economy built on advanced energy.

If you’re an entrepreneurial, innovative, analytical and thoughtful person looking to make an impact in the clean energy space, United might be the perfect place for you to share your talents. Team members at United are given the trust and responsibility to make big things happen, and myriad opportunities to learn new skills, explore new issue areas, and work with a broad cross section of the clean energy community. Being a team member at United also means working with a talented and diverse group of people, some who bring decades of experience spanning advocacy, philanthropy, clean tech, government and more—and our collaborative approach means we get to learn from each other, expert and novice, every day. And while our organization is fully remote, we are proud of the people-focused culture we have built and the connectedness of our team.

We work on serious issues, take our mission seriously, but never take ourselves too seriously.

Position Description

United is seeking an energetic and self-starting early career professional with strong analytical abilities and excellent communications skills, both oral and written and with interest and experience in policy advocacy to join our wholesale electricity markets team. This person will support United’s engagement in the MISO and SPP regions. The Policy Principal will work with other United team members to execute multi-year strategies and campaigns designed to transform wholesale electricity markets to support the U.S. transition to 100% clean energy. 

This work will focus on the wholesale market and changing the rules governing how the MISO and SPP wholesale electricity markets operate to support the growth of clean energy resources and the retirement of aging incumbent technologies, and on expanding competitive wholesale electricity markets to areas where they do not currently exist. The Policy Principal will collaborate with United’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) team and engage with MISO and SPP state staff and market participants in the MISO and SPP wholesale electricity markets, as well as key political and policy players in the MISO and SPP regions involved in wholesale electricity market policy.

The Policy Principal will monitor and support the analysis of market rule reforms under consideration in the stakeholder process in MISO and SPP to assess their impact on the growth of advanced energy technologies. The Policy Principal will prepare advocacy materials (comments, presentations, letters, fact sheets, etc.) to support adoption of key wholesale power market design and rules changes needed to expand advanced energy technologies, and to ensure rejection of market design and rule changes that would discriminate against advanced energy technologies. The Policy Principal may also engage in related work with priority state regulators and policymakers who are key influencers in wholesale markets, and in political and policy campaigns to expand transmission infrastructure to support clean energy deployment. The Policy Principal will also manage the development of MISO and SPP wholesale market intelligence to keep United members and key policy makers informed. 

The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated individual