Markets Policy Analyst

This role is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic, fast-growing team​ranging from data analysts and software developers through to client facing and contract negotiation roles.

Ecotricity Smart Grid (ESG) provides a route to market for distributed energy resources via our in-house developed asset flexibility platform and optimiser. These will typically be grid scale storage, renewable technologies or aggregated demand side response from domestic and business sites.

At the heart of Ecotricity Smart Grid is our flexibility platform and optimiser, Ecolibrium. This in-house developed software constantly selects between multiple revenue streams, according to their flexibility potential so as to maximise revenue. These revenues arise principally from a variety of grid services and their specific requirements, as well as the trading markets and Balancing Mechanism.

Good policy insight is essential in formulating the strategic direction of travel for Ecotricity Smart Grid, and with the voluminous amount of code changes, modifications, and consultations, this aspect of the role is vital for keeping us apprised of what is ‘coming down the road’.

As a key element of this role you will attend industry working groups and forums, assess policy changes or modifications and crucially, report on the expected impact, where material, to our platform and operations. This will feed into the planning of our technical developments and help to refine our operating strategies to ensure that ESG remains at the forefront of service delivery and deliver the best performance to our customers.

Our industry has frequent consultations on changes to technical and regulatory factors that can strategically affect us, so understanding these consultations, reporting back, and responding where necessary is also a key part of the role.

You will have, or will need to develop, a deep understanding of the energy industry in GB, and potentially further afield. Be comfortable in attending industry workshops, presenting to both internal and external stakeholders and be able to summarise complex industry documentation for a range of audiences.

Core Responsibilities

• Following industry developments that affect flexibility service provision particularly from NESO, Ofgem and DesNez. You should be able to glean strategic insights from your work.
• Respond with General Manager to consultations pertinent to this space.
• Work with the analyst team to develop insights to improve our optimisation models
• Provide ad hoc market analysis pieces as required

Essential Skills

• Strong analytical, theoretical and numeric skills
• Experience with policy and regulatory documents and the ability to draw insights/ conclusions for the broader team from same
• Ability to articulate and present analysis and draw conclusions /insights from analytics.
• Experience in the Energy Industry.
• Degree in a numerate subject, or a proven track record of quantitative and qualitative analytical abilities, ideally in a commercial setting
• MS Office skills
• Familiarity with BI tools such as Microsoft Power BI, Tableau or other

What's in it for you…

• Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
• Volunteering Day
• Hybrid Working
• Various company discounts (including shops, gyms, days out and events)
• Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
• Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity – the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain – by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too – we build windmills, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'. Some of our biggest achievements to date include building Britain's first megawatt windmill and the country's first grid-scale sun park, as well as building our first green gasmill, generating 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of grass.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.