Performance Engineer at Clearway Energy | Torre

Performance Engineer

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Full-time

Legal agreement: To be defined

Compensation
USD73k - 87k/year
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Hybrid (Carlsbad, California, United States)
Posted over 2 years ago

Responsibilities


Clearway Energy Group is leading the transition to a world powered by clean energy. Along with our public affiliate Clearway Energy, Inc., we own and manage more than 9.6 gigawatts of renewable and conventional energy assets across the country. As we develop a nationwide pipeline of new renewable energy projects for the future, Clearway’s 7 gigawatts of operating wind, solar, and energy storage assets offset the equivalent of more than 9 million metric tons of carbon emissions for our customers today. Clearway Energy Group is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Carlsbad, Calif.; Scottsdale, Ariz.; Houston; and Princeton, N.J. For more information, visit clearwayenergygroup.com. The Performance Engineer, Data Analytics is responsible for analyzing the performance of Wind, Solar, and Distributed Generation assets to identify, quantify, document, and communicate generation upside opportunities within the fleet. This role will also perform analysis on an as-needed basis for key stakeholders to support refinancing, divestitures, and lookback analyses on projects. The Performance Engineer, Data Analytics will be expected to have strong programming language experience, a fundamental understanding of mechanical and electrical systems, along with a basic understanding of statistics and pattern/anomaly detection. Responsibilities: - Create algorithms using programming languages to evaluate asset performance and identify anomalies - Analyze meteorological data to quantify and understand weather impacts on performance - Identify process improvement opportunities to increase accuracy of metrics and streamline processes - Develop quality assurance tests for reporting data - Generate code/queries for automation of reporting functions - Assess and interpret third-party IE reports - Conduct root cause analysis on underperforming wind and solar assets to identify components responsible for performance issues - Perform ad-hoc analyses to solve for specific business stakeholder issues - Evaluate data from various meteorological instruments and weather models - Present results/methodologies to a broad audience, including Executive-level staff - Build asset-level power curves for entire renewable fleet - Travel to wind and solar sites at least once a year