Senior Analyst, US Electricity Markets Analytics

Job Purpose

The energy system is entering a new era of load growth from electrification, data centers, and other large new loads on the grid. As a company operating at the center of this transformation, National Grid faces important strategic questions about how the energy system will evolve and how we respond to those changes. Our internal market analytics team helps the business understand how demand growth, policy, and the evolution of markets and technology are reshaping the energy system.

To meet accelerating demand reliably and affordably, we are seeking a Senior Analyst in our US Market Analytics team who will use electricity market modeling and problem-solving skills to support our decision making. You will become part of a high caliber, curious, motivated, inclusive team. You will get to work on exciting and challenging problems, and to contribute to analysis on a range of load-growth, resource adequacy, and clean energy topics related to the future of electric networks and markets.

Key Accountabilities

• Design and execute forward looking scenarios (e.g., policy cases, interconnection constraints, storage adoption, thermal retirements, transmission upgrades) and quantify portfolio/financial implications under uncertainty.
• Perform production cost and capacity expansion modeling to inform investment cases, long term resource plans, and business strategy; translate model outputs into clear recommendations and trade offs for senior decision makers.
• Support enhancements to in house market models and data pipelines, including documenting methodologies, updating input datasets (fuel/CO₂ prices, load shapes, renewable profiles, transmission constraints), and instituting version control and model governance.
• Synthesize market, historical, and fundamental data (ISO/RTO data, interconnection queues, capacity auctions, fuel markets) to inform model inputs, validate outputs, and produce decision ready dashboards and narratives.
• Explain market dynamics and model mechanics including LMP formation, congestion, ancillary services, capacity market constructs, and resource adequacy, to teams and non technical stakeholders; clearly articulate how these drivers affect outcomes.
• Partner with internal teams to provide timely, ad hoc market analysis and what if modeling to support critical decisions.
• Contribute to modeling best practices, including documentation standards, code review, and model performance monitoring.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, in Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related quantitative field (power systems emphasis desired).
• Hands on expertise with production cost modeling and/or capacity expansion modeling in a consulting, ISO/RTO, or corporate environment; proven ability to design scenarios and convert results into business decisions.
• 1–3 years of relevant work experience providing quantitative analysis, production cost modeling, capacity expansion modeling and/or consulting.
• Proficiency with commercial market modeling tools such as PSO/Enelytix, ProMOD, PLEXOS, Aurora, GridView, or GE MAPS; experience building/maintaining custom workflows around these tools.
• Strong analytical and programming skills in Python and Excel; experience automating data ingestion, scenario runs, and post processing; ability to build clear dashboards/visuals (e.g., Power BI).
• Strong electricity market knowledge, including transmission and power flow fundamentals, LMP formation, congestion management, ancillary services, capacity markets, and resource adequacy; specific familiarity with the Eastern Interconnection strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with trends in conventional generation, renewables, storage, gas, transmission, and distributed resources, and their market/operational implications.
• Clear, concise communicator able to explain model assumptions, limitations, and results to both technical and executive audiences; strong stakeholder management skills.

About us

At National Grid, we light up the world by harnessing the unique strengths of our people. Join us as a Senior Analyst, US Electricity Market Analytics, and be part of a team that's driving forward the energy transition, creating a brighter, more sustainable future for all. Unleash your superpower and bring energy to life.

National Grid is hiring a Senior Analyst for our US Market Analytics team. This position will be located in Boston, MA or Waltham, MA, with hybrid working.

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