Manager, Policy and Regulatory Affairs

EnergyHub empowers utilities and their customers to create a clean, distributed energy future. Our mission is to integrate any customer or device to the grid to provide flexibility and reliability. 

We are seeking a dynamic professional well versed in the electric utility industry to join our team as Manager, Policy and Regulatory Affairs. The ideal candidate has distributed energy resources (DER) and demand-side management expertise, and experience collaborating with a broad spectrum of industry and government stakeholders. You have the ability to translate EnergyHub’s product vision into a set of regulatory and policy objectives with the power to unlock new opportunities across our business units. You are both a big picture and analytical thinker who can turn complex device and DER program data into digestible comments and thought leadership for a diverse audience. You’re motivated to interface with a wide range of stakeholders in the industry and find middle ground amongst utilities, customers, and the distributed energy community. And, you never lose sight of high-priority state, federal, and agency initiatives and proceedings with the potential to impact EnergyHub’s growth. 

Besides a rock-solid work ethic and a strong team-oriented personality, we’re looking for a candidate that is creative, passionate, and has a desire to break new ground in a constantly shifting landscape.

Main Responsibilities:

The Manager, Policy and Regulatory Affairs, will be an integral part of the Regulatory Affairs team, with the primary responsibilities of accelerating EnergyHub’s growth through legislative, regulatory, and other policy advocacy and providing  intelligence to support clients and shape EnergyHub’s long-term business strategy. They will lead EnergyHub’s engagement in public utility commission proceedings and legislative sessions to help scale existing customer programs, and advocate for reforms that ultimately unlock the full value of demand flexibility. The Manager, Policy and Regulatory Affairs will report to the Director of Regulatory Affairs and will collaborate with teams across the company to ensure that our advocacy reflects all that EnergyHub has to offer.

 

Specifically, you will: 

• Help develop and execute our regulatory and legislative engagement strategies for North America (potential focus on the eastern and central regions). 
• Prioritize the highest-leverage advocacy opportunities and initiatives related to grid modernization, integrated resource planning, demand-side management, transportation electrification, energy storage, rate cases, state and federal legislation and grant programs, etc.
• Participate in integrated resource planning, VPP potential studies, and distribution system planning cycles to promote the use of demand-side resources and virtual power plants in long-term grid planning
• Educate regulators and advocate for the role of software and DERMS in facilitating demand flexibility through innovative utility-led programs and rates
• Represent EnergyHub as a thought leader in electric vehicle program design to ensure that managed charging programs are set up to monetize the full grid value of EV assets
• Harvest best practices from battery storage demand response programs to drive the development of energy storage incentive and load management programs
• Track national and state-level regulatory trends and periodically brief senior leadership and internal stakeholders to enable product roadmap planning
• Lead cross-functional efforts to evaluate new business models or program ideas in response to federal or state-level policy initiatives 
• Research and gain expertise in regulatory topics with the potential to accelerate the adoption of grid-edge resources and the programs that harness them (e.g., performance-based ratemaking, software capitalization, technical resource manuals and M&V protocols)
• Foster productive relationships with EnergyHub’s trade associations and represent EnergyHub at industry conferences
• Work with Product Marketing to create thought leadership materials such as blog posts and white papers in support of policy positions - identify and onboard outside consultants to craft positions and advocacy materials where appropriate
• Other duties as assigned

Key Skills & Experience:

• BA/BS with 4-7 years of work experience, and at least 2 years in the energy sector
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