Energy Markets Consultant

Energy Markets Consultant

Reston, VA (preferred)

U.S. Remote

What we do
ICF Provides advisory services to the energy/utilities industry. Assists organizations in improving their performance through the assessment, identification and implementation of strategic planning and goals. Incumbents advise clients in areas such as corporate strategy, business unit strategy, customer & marketing strategy, growth, and innovation. Our services also include the development and review of financial business plans including potential mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.

ICF’s Energy Advisory Team

Our work is focused on supporting the rapid transformation in the U.S. power system. Working within project teams, your role will be to assist in the continued development and growth of ICF’s Power practice and to support our clients to identify and pursue investment opportunities in support of development and M&A across a range of technologies and across US power markets.

This is a multi-faceted role with exposure to wide array of topics concerning energy -markets, policy, interconnection, transmission to name a few. You will study the increasing complexity of interconnection queues and assist your clients with navigating them and assess the impacts of network upgrade cost exposure on project/portfolio valuation and off-take strategies.

You will also assess how various market parameters such as natural gas prices, demand, transmission congestion, bidding strategies, outages etc. affect day ahead (DA) and real time (RT) market price formulation and assist your clients manage the curtailment risks. You will help shape our views on decarbonization strategies and their impact on the current market structures and how the power grid needs to evolve to enable increasing levels of renewable penetration.

Come join an interdisciplinary team and gain exposure across all major aspects of energy markets and establish yourself as an energy expert.

• Do you want to help renewable developers assess where market and policy drivers will lead to strong interest in renewables? Help them find the best locations to develop new renewables, battery storage among the rapidly changing U.S. electricity markets?

• How about assisting banks, private equity firms and other investment firms assess investment opportunities and risks? Use your technical and analytical skills to help various planning entities including the federal government with strategies and how the grid needs to evolve to enable increasing levels of renewable penetration. 

• Does working with multiple stakeholders in energy broadly categorized as private developers, financing entities and planning entities excite you?

What you will be doing:

• Perform advanced technical, quantitative, and economic …