Associate Consultant

The Associate Consultant position at Energy and Environmental Economics (E3) involves conducting research and evaluation to support customer projects in the energy sector. Collaborating with senior team members, the role includes contributing to forecasting models and market strategies. E3 offers a hybrid work environment, allowing flexibility while emphasizing collaboration. The company focuses on clean energy policy and has a global presence, working with various stakeholders in the electricity industry.
Why You Should Join the E3 Team

When you join the E3 team, you will be working on some of the most important energy issues with some of the top minds in the electricity industry. We help shape energy and climate policy, play vital roles in regulatory proceedings, advise executives, and inform investment and planning selections. At E3, you will be challenged and inspired.
• Who We Are

Founded in 1989, Energy + Environmental Economics (E3) is a fast-growing energy consulting firm that helps utilities, regulators, policy makers, developers, and investors make the most educated strategic decisions possible as they implement new public policies, deploy and develop new technologies, and address customers’ shifting expectations. We have offices in San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Denver, and Calgary.

Because E3 works with customers from all sectors of the electricity industry, we provide a 360-degree knowledge of markets, planning, policy, regulation, and environmental factors. Just as important, we are driven to deliver clear, unbiased evaluations that help customers make informed decisions.

E3 works on high-profile, high-impact projects in jurisdictions that spearhead the implementation of clean energy policy. In California, Hawaii, and New York, we are advising state agencies and regulators about how to implement clean energy policies with an emphasis on customer incentives and markets. E3 is also expanding its international presence with recent projects in Europe, China, India, and Africa.
• About You
• The Work

The Associate Consultant is a vital contributor to our team. Any team member may play a significant role in a project, and recent graduates work alongside senior partners. The position conducts research and evaluation to aid the delivery of customer work under the direction of senior-level team members. You will have the opportunity to immediately assist project work to inform customer strategies by contributing to in-house forecasting models, quantifying various market strategies, studying market portfolios and stakeholder needs, benchmarking industry standards, and developing policy and market overviews.
• Practice Areas

We’re highly collaborative, but everyone is encouraged to pursue their own practice areas of interest. At E3, our Practice Areas include:

- Climate Pathways and Electrification
- Asset Valuation, Transmission, and Markets
- Integrated System Planning
• General
- Hours: Full Time
- Type: Exempt or Non-Exempt (depends on level of work experience)
- Practice Area: Open
- Travel: 0-5%
- Office Location: New York
• Work Environment

Hybrid and flexible work environment that adapts to changing needs of projects and safety requirements. E3 thrives in a strong collaborative office-based working environment but has also adapted to the safety requirements of our employees. Must be able to work for extended hours in front of a computer screen and conduct meetings on the telephone and virtually.
• Responsibilities:

- Assist the delivery of customer work through modeling, developing presentations, writing, and preparing reports and papers, and helping with additional customer requests
- Conduct independent research using your ingenuity and curiosity to make reasonable assumptions and produce appropriate solutions, at times with incomplete information. This may include country-level energy market research, delving into standards documents to find specific references or proof points, as well as research on complicated topics such as regulatory proceedings.
- Translate results of research, reports, and insights into clear visual representations
- Aid project heads in the creation or editing of spreadsheets to be "client-ready,” including developing tools for stakeholder products
- Simple modifications to existing tools and models
- Proactively track actual performance of own work performed against the established plan, with ongoing communication with the Director or Manager
- Capture project learnings and repeatable products and work samples for future use according to knowledge management processes
- Assist with internal initiatives as needed
• Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree or higher with a strong academic record in engineering, economics, computer science, public policy, or related field
- 0-2 years of prior experience desired specifically addressing energy and climate change issues and/or demonstrated academic related project work
- Hands-on experience, academic project work, or extensive knowledge base related to one of our Practice Areas: - Climate Pathways and Electrification, Asset Valuation, Transmission, and Markets, and Integrated System Planning
- You work collaboratively and assist each member of your team to do their greatest work, aware that each brings different experiences to the table
- High fluency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; programming experience in Python is also valued
- Desire to work in a dynamic office environment with oth