What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Principal Strategy & Planning Analyst position at Portland General Electric?
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The Senior Principal Strategy & Planning Analyst plays a critical role in supporting PGE’s strategy for regional transmission access and merchant transmission investments. The position provides strategic analysis, cross-functional coordination, and execution support for transmission initiatives that enable reliable and affordable service for customers while supporting PGE’s transition to a decarbonized resource portfolio.
This role evaluates regional transmission opportunities, transmission service strategies, and investment pathways that enable PGE to integrate new generation resources, optimize the performance of existing assets, and access broader regional markets. The Senior Analyst supports commercial, and policy strategy associated with major transmission initiatives across the Western Interconnection.
The role also supports PGE’s engagement with the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) and other regional transmission stakeholders. This includes analyzing policy developments, transmission business practices, and technical requirements that influence PGE’s ability to secure transmission service and advance its long-term resource strategy.
Because transmission strategy intersects with generation development, regulatory policy, resource planning, and system operations, the role requires significant cross-functional collaboration across the organization to ensure alignment between PGE’s transmission access strategy and broader company objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Transmission Strategy Analysis
Education
Functional Competencies
Physical
Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity.
PGE believes in rewarding dedicated performance. We provide a total rewards package that is designed to reward your contributions to the company, and, at the same time, support your well-being and professional development, both now and into the future. To find out more, click here.
The Senior Principal Strategy & Planning Analyst plays a critical role in supporting PGE’s strategy for regional transmission access and merchant transmission investments. The position provides strategic analysis, cross-functional coordination, and execution support for transmission initiatives that enable reliable and affordable service for customers while supporting PGE’s transition to a decarbonized resource portfolio.
This role evaluates regional transmission opportunities, transmission service strategies, and investment pathways that enable PGE to integrate new generation resources, optimize the performance of existing assets, and access broader regional markets. The Senior Analyst supports commercial, and policy strategy associated with major transmission initiatives across the Western Interconnection.
The role also supports PGE’s engagement with the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) and other regional transmission stakeholders. This includes analyzing policy developments, transmission business practices, and technical requirements that influence PGE’s ability to secure transmission service and advance its long-term resource strategy.
Because transmission strategy intersects with generation development, regulatory policy, resource planning, and system operations, the role requires significant cross-functional collaboration across the organization to ensure alignment between PGE’s transmission access strategy and broader company objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Transmission Strategy Analysis
- Support development and execution of PGE’s merchant transmission and regional transmission strategy through technical, economic, and policy analysis.
- Evaluate transmission projects, capacity rights opportunities, and regional grid expansion initiatives to determine their potential value for PGE and its customers.
- Conduct analysis related to congestion, transmission availability, resource deliverability, and market access to inform strategic investment and contracting decisions.
- Develop internal analyses and recommendations regarding transmission rights acquisition, project participation, and partnership opportunities.
- Support PGE’s engagement with the Bonneville Power Administration on transmission policy, business practices, and planning initiatives.
- Monitor and analyze BPA policy changes including:
- Transmission service policies
- Business practice updates
- Grid Access Transformation initiatives
- Transmission planning developments
- Coordinate internally to ensure PGE stakeholders understand and respond to evolving BPA processes and technical requirements.
- Support preparation of technical analyses, stakeholder comments, and internal briefing materials related to BPA initiatives.
- Assist in evaluating regional transmission development opportunities, including new interregional transmission lines and network upgrades that expand access to generation resources.
- Support the development of business cases for transmission investments by analyzing:
- Project economics
- Market access benefits
- Resource integration value
- Reliability and capacity benefits.
- Support engagement with regional stakeholders, utilities, and developers regarding potential transmission partnerships.
- Work closely with generation origination, resource planning, and transmission planning teams to ensure generation procurement strategies align with transmission availability and deliverability considerations.
- Evaluate how transmission availability affects resource adequacy, renewable integration, and long-term portfolio costs.
- Support development of integrated strategies that combine generation procurement with transmission access solutions.
- Serve as a key analytical and coordination resource across multiple teams, including:
- Integrated Resource Planning
- Transmission Planning
- Origination & Structuring
- Power Operations
- Regulatory Affairs
- Policy & Government Affairs.
- Translate complex transmission policy, planning, and market developments into clear insights and recommendations for internal stakeholders.
- Support development of materials for executive leadership, regulatory engagement, and strategic planning discussions.
- Monitor regional transmission developments across the Western Interconnection, including:
- Interregional transmission proposals
- Transmission planning initiatives
- Regulatory and policy developments.
- Provide internal insights regarding how regional transmission changes could affect PGE’s ability to integrate new resources and serve growing load.
Education
- Requires a bachelor's degree in business, economics, engineering or related financial or scientific discipline or equivalent experience.
- Typically 12 or more years in utility or similar energy sector experience in the area(s) of engineering, power operations, economic forecasting, accounting, finance or regulatory affairs or a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Functional Competencies
- Expert knowledge of PGE and western U.S loads, generation, state Renewable Portfolio Standard targets and transmission links.
- Expert knowledge of fundamental electricity supply and demand drivers, energy market dynamics and risk and valuation techniques for evaluating resource alternatives.
- Expert knowledge of resource strategy concepts and considerations to identify and evaluate potential opportunities for resource acquisition.
- Expert knowledge of analytical techniques and cost-modeling theory and practices.
- Expert knowledge of electric market modeling and forecasting tools.
- Expert knowledge of applicable statutes, policies, rules, regulations and codes.
- Advanced skills in using database applications.
- Advanced skills with programming languages used in department.
- Expert analytical thinking skills
- Advanced business acumen
- Expert decision-making skills
- Advanced enterprise/business awareness skills
- Expert influence skills
- Expert presentation/facilitation skills
- Expert written/oral communication skills
- Expert diplomacy skills
Physical
- Does the job require a valid driver's license? - No
- Driving/travel/commute: Daily within service territory - Occasionally (one to two times a month or less)
- Driving/travel/commute: Overnight inside/outside the service territory - Occasionally (one to two times a month or less)
- Computer use (use computer regularly for entire work shift)
- Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines and time-sensitive tasks
- Ability to follow accuracy standards
- Ability to follow through on decision-making tasks
- Ability to interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment
- Ability to communicate and problem solve when under stress
- Ability to respond and adapt to frequent change
- Ability to accept and demonstrate self-awareness when provided constructive feedback
- Ability to discern feedback and acknowledge ownership of areas of improvement
- Ability to avoid future mistakes by applying reasonable skills to new but similar work situations or tasks
- Ability to successfully collaborate with peers, managers and others within the organization
- Demonstrates sound memory
- Ability to process new information to be applied consistently to work tasks
- Ability to work long hours
- Ability to work a variable schedule
- Ability to report to work and perform work during periods of severe inclement weather
- Ability to consistently meet attendance standards for regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance [for part-time positions, change to part-time attendance]
- Office environment - hybrid - 3 days in office
Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity.
PGE believes in rewarding dedicated performance. We provide a total rewards package that is designed to reward your contributions to the company, and, at the same time, support your well-being and professional development, both now and into the future. To find out more, click here.