Senior Power Consultant

Skills

About the Role

You will serve as the internal expert on wholesale and retail energy markets, demand response, risk management, and power procurement across ERCOT, PJM, and other deregulated markets. You will coordinate day-ahead and real-time power scheduling with the company's REP and QSE, monitor market pricing and settlement statements, and design and optimize curtailment and demand response programs to maximize revenue and reduce net power cost. You will build real-time DR dispatch models, coordinate Coincident Peak curtailment strategy, and report DR performance and settlement reconciliations to management. You will develop and execute a forward power hedging framework, structure block energy purchases, and provide mark-to-market and hedge ratio analysis to leadership. You will lead or support negotiations for PPAs, REP contracts, and QSE agreements, review co-location power pass-through terms, and coordinate with legal counsel on contract terms. You will track regulatory developments from FERC, PUCT, PJM, and ERCOT, maintain market surveillance dashboards, publish power market reports for executive leadership, and audit co-location power terms to benchmark and recommend cost-saving strategies. You will build financial models projecting revenue and cost savings and prepare periodic power cost reports across all sites.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of direct hands-on experience at a QSE, power marketing company, IPP, or energy consultancy with QSE-level trading responsibilities
• Demonstrated track record executing day-ahead and real-time scheduling in ERCOT and/or PJM
• Familiarity with at least one additional ISO/RTO such as MISO, SPP, or CAISO is valued
• Proven ability to design and manage industrial demand response programs in deregulated markets with measurable cost or revenue outcomes
• Hands-on experience structuring block energy hedges and forward power positions for large industrial or commercial load customers
• Track record negotiating power supply agreements with demonstrable improvements to contract terms
• Proficiency with ERCOT market tools including Nodal protocols, Settlements, MIS portal and equivalent PJM tools such as eSchedules, Market Portal, eMKT
• Strong financial modelling capability in Excel or Google Sheets
• Experience with energy-specific platforms such as Openlink Endur or Triple Point is a plus
• Ability to build and interpret load forecasting models, price curve analytics, and hedging P&L reports
• Familiarity with SCADA or EMS systems for real-time load visibility is advantageous
• Deep understanding of FERC, NERC, PUCT, and PJM/ERCOT tariff and market rules
• Awareness of emerging federal and state policy affecting large industrial loads
• Familiarity with Bitcoin mining load profiles, hashrate economics, and load shaping strategies is a plus

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with the company's REP and QSE to execute day-ahead and real-time power scheduling aligned to mining load profiles and price forecasts
• Monitor market pricing, ancillary service markets, demand response products, and settlement statements for cost recovery and optimization
• Design implement and optimize curtailment programs to maximize demand response revenue and reduce net power cost
• Build real-time demand response dispatch models aligned to miner curtailment, price spikes, grid emergencies, and ancillary service opportunities
• Coordinate Coincident Peak curtailment strategy and advise site operations on execution timing
• Report demand response performance metrics to management and regulatory bodies and ensure program compliance
• Produce demand response revenue reports and settlement reconciliations for the management team
• Develop and execute a forward power hedging framework to reduce exposure to market price volatility
• Structure block energy purchases calibrated to the company's load shape and budget constraints
• Provide mark-to-market reporting, hedge ratio analysis, and strategy recommendations to leadership
• Manage financial hedging instruments and prepare cost exposure reports including margin call risk assessments
• Lead or support negotiations for PPAs, REP contracts, and QSE agreements at self-mining sites
• Review and negotiate power pass-through terms in co-location agreements
• Monitor co-location power costs and recommend renegotiation or site migration where savings are achievable
• Coordinate with legal counsel to finalize contract terms, exit provisions, force majeure clauses, and curtailment rights
• Track and interpret regulatory developments affecting wholesale and retail power markets
• Assess the impact of regulatory changes on power cost, demand response eligibility, and market participation rights
• Maintain real-time market surveillance dashboards covering price forecasts, capacity outlook, and volatility
• Publish monthly and quarterly power market reports for executive leadership
• Revise demand response strategies, hedging positions, and contract laddering schedules in response to market evolution
• Conduct structured audits of power terms received at each co-location site
• Evaluate the host's demand response program and curtailment protocols
• Benchmark the all-in effective power rate at each co-location site against self-mining alternatives
• Build financial models to project revenue and cost savings for proposed power strategies
• Prepare periodic power cost reports encompassing all sites and operational models