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Join the Clean Energy Revolution Become a Quantitative Clean Energy Associate Analyst at Southern California Edison (SCE) and shape our clean energy future. In this position, you would use quantitative tools to provide analytical support for projects and initiatives that shape SCE’s long‑term electricity supply planning and demand forecasting, emissions reductions, and adapting to climate change. The work will primarily focus on quantitative analyses that support grid planning for decarbonization, evaluate potential impacts of climate change, assess portfolio emissions, inform long‑term planning scenarios incorporating demand and supply uncertainties, and address other energy market dynamics to inform key policy and corporate strategy decisions. You will work in a collaborative environment where complex problems are solved through cross‑functional engagement.

This role in the Analytics Group within the Resource & Environmental Planning & Strategy (REPS) organization will directly influence corporate planning, resource procurement, energy policy, legal proceedings, and future investment strategies. Additionally, you’ll:

• Develop and utilize analytical models and resource planning simulation tools to generate portfolios under various future scenarios, and project impacts of those portfolios on system costs, GHG emissions, and other system and market dimensions.
• Perform quantitative analyses of energy markets and policies, evaluating the cost-effectiveness and viability of new energy resources (i.e., renewables, energy storage, distributed energy resources, electric vehicles)
• Provide analytical support for SCE’s strategic planning process and projects including performing economic, market sizing and cost-benefit analyses.
• Build data pipelines to intake large amounts of climate projection data and manipulate the data to generate custom climate projections for end use applications.
• Present to department and division management, collaborators in other divisions, colleagues, and other interested parties.

As a Quantitative Clean Energy Associate Analyst, your work will inform SCE’s clean energy transition, reduce carbon emissions, mitigate climate change risks, and improve grid resilience. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

• Prepares analytical support for projects and initiatives that help shape SCE's strategy.
• Follows horizon planning capabilities through scenario development in the face of uncertainty driven by exogenous market factors, like climate change and emerging technologies.
• Assists in deploying analytical models and grid planning simulation tools to support the development of resource portfolios under various future scenarios.
• Monitors regulator demands and helps in documenting communications with state agencies about California's energy and reliability needs.
• Assists in researching the cost-effectiveness and potential of new technologies for supply and demand-side energy resources.
• Identifies improvement areas to alternative analytical models and methods for a variety of applications, including evaluating energy policies, regulations, climate change impacts, and new business models.
• Participates in the analysis of market trends in the energy and ancillary services markets.
• Gathers contract requirements, reviews payments, manages disputes and makes recommendations to maximize benefits to customers.
• Contributes to statistical and econometric models to forecast electricity demand and energy commodity prices to support position management and hedging.
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

• Experience in using analytical models for applications such as complex system planning, modeling, and/or forecasting

• Undergraduate or graduate degree in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, or other related quantitative academic field
• Experience developing analytical tools using Python to manipulate various types of large data sets, and developing data pipelines with Python and/or SQL from back-end databases
• Experience in solving complex energy, infrastructure, regulatory, and market issues that collectively shape energy system decisions
• Experience with statistics and machine-learning models
• Experience with advanced Excel functions (i.e. Pivot Tables, V lookup, Macros and VBA)
• Experience using data visualization tools (i.e. ArcGIS, PowerBI or Tableau)
• Experience applying GHG (Green House Gas) policies/power markets and related regulatory requirements

• This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs
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• Relocation does not apply to this position.
• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option2.