Our client is looking for a Medior Analyst
Service description:
Within the team the service will be responsible for analyzing the flexibility available in the system. You support colleagues in your own and other teams within the company with information for improving products and market mechanisms, developing scenarios for expected future flexibility and estimating possible flexibility shortages in the system. In addition, the service will analyze whether the current developments of flexibility in the system are on track for facilitating the energy transition or not. The service will take a central place in setting up and maintaining a dashboard, yet to be developed, with indicators around flexibility in the system, such as the number of installed flexible assets (heat pumps, electric cars, home batteries…), the number of these assets that are effectively capable of responding or already effectively responding to a price (dynamic tariffs) or other signals (capacity tariffs) and the profiles with which these assets can respond. This information is currently not centrally available and your role is to search and capture existing information in a clear dashboard. This information can be found through desktop research (regulators' websites,…), contacting market parties (distribution system operators, sector federations,…) or devising and working out inventive ways to retrieve unavailable information.
Additionally, the service is also expected to be able to perform statistical analyses on available time series of renewable energy forecast errors, market player behavior (nominations and their adjustments) and system imbalances. The results of such analyses are an important addition to the dashboard.
The duties of the Analyst system flexibility include:
- Gathering information on available flexibility through various channels (desktop research, interviews, data analysis, estimation methods).
- Setting up a dashboard in Excel (or Power BI) where information is kept up to date in an organized way.
- Developing and conducting data analyses to determine the relationship between renewable energy forecast errors, market player behavior and system imbalances.
- Connecting the various elements to get a total view of the installed (hardware, e.g. electric cars), available (able to react on price or other signals), and effectively activated flexibility in the system (observed modification of the consumption profile following a price or other signal).
- Calibrating scenarios for the expected presence of flexibility in the system for the company's next Adequacy and flexibility study.
- Connecting possible applications for different departments and disseminating the results internally.
Requirements:
- Master's degree in engineering, commercial engineering or economics with an interest in working in a technical environment.
- Keen interest in the energy sector, understanding of the global workings of the energy market and preferably several years of experience in the electricity market (at least 3 years of relevant experience).
- Strong analytical mind, able to master and understand complex processes and translate a question into a quantitative analysis or approach.
- Data-driven: able to support reasoning clearly using quantitative results.
- Sufficient knowledge and experience regarding statistical methods (e.g. machine learning) to perform analysis on large data sets.
- Interest and experience in performing calculations in Excel; willingness to work with Python or similar programming languages when necessary.
- Good knowledge of Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Ability to combine different task types (operational to conceptual), organize autonomously and distinguish priorities.
- Quick learner with a proactive and positive attitude; focus on details without losing sight of the overall picture and deliver flawless work.
- Ability to take steering action within a project, including concrete implementation.
- Fluent in Dutch or French and adequate knowledge of the other language; fluent in English orally and in writing.
- Like teamwork, results-oriented and able to solve problems; a fluent communication style.
