Colorado Nonprofit Association

Extended Day Ahead Market Fellow

Salary: $65,000.00 Annually

Position Summary

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is hiring an Extended Day Ahead Market (EDAM) Fellow. This position will be responsible for monitoring and evaluating the development of business practices and market rules in the day-ahead electricity market offering from the California Independent System Operator (CAISO).  This market is known as the Extended Day Ahead Market or EDAM. Specifically, the Fellow will track the CAISO EDAM implementation plan, with a focus on three market policy elements – greenhouse gas accounting, transmission use and access, and market performance. This position will be responsible for: (1) understanding the components of the EDAM tariff recently approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and identifying corresponding EDAM business process rules development efforts; (2) identifying where proposed business practices or market rules deviate from WRA’s public interest goals and principles; and (3) develop a roadmap for WRA’s future engagement. These work products will inform WRA’s advocacy strategy related to energy market and transmission expansion issues to ensure public interest goals are sustained. This is a 1-year fellowship. This position will start on or after January 6, 2025.

About Western Resource Advocates

WRA fights climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. We respect the different needs of diverse people and partner with them to develop a shared vision for progress—one that advances communities while protecting biodiversity.

Our team of policy experts, scientists, economists, and attorneys has a 30-year history of working where decisions are made, sweating the details, creating evidence-based solutions, and holding decision makers accountable. This on the ground work with policymakers and other advocates advances clean energy, protects air, land, water, and wildlife—and sustains the lives and livelihoods of the West.

Location

This position may work remotely in our seven-state region, in one of our six offices, or a hybrid of the two. Our seven-state region includes Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. WRA has offices located in Boulder, CO; Carson City, NV; Denver, CO; Phoenix, AZ; Salt Lake City, UT; and Santa Fe, NM. Access to a major airport required, as this position involves some travel.

Responsibilities:

QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES:

Any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience, that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the essential functions of this position, will be considered.  For example, the requisite experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities would include:
 

Preferred Qualifications

WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The work environment and physical demands described here are representative of those required by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodations.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: