Project Development Lead - East

Job Description

Job Description

Passion. Commitment. Impact.

EDP Renewables North America (EDPR) is at the forefront of the clean-energy transition. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, with eight regional offices across the continent, EDPR is operating over 9 gigawatts of renewable energy facilities and is actively developing hundreds of new utility-scale wind, solar, and battery-storage projects. EDPR is an owner-operator of its renewable energy portfolio, with best-in-class industry experts in all domains associated with developing, constructing, owning and operating large-scale renewable energy projects. EDPR is an industry leader in all aspects of the business, from implementing cutting-edge technologies in the field to creating a more inclusive and greener company culture. Powered by our slogan, “We Choose Earth,” we consider sustainability and resiliency to be crucially important to the electric grid, just as it is to every individual on our award-winning team. Join us!

Role Overview :

The Project Development Lead is responsible for the development of utility-scale renewable energy-powered generation projects from the project identification stage through financial closing and start of construction. This role will be focused on EDPR’s New York portfolio of early to late-stage development projects including wind farms, solar parks, battery storage facilities and repowering of our existing wind energy fleet.

What You Will Be Doing :

• Responsible for local state, federal, and regional permitting of utility-scale wind farms and solar parks
• Oversee the preparation of proposals that are submitted to potential commercial off-takers
• Obtain land rights to design, permit, construct, operate, and maintain wind, solar and battery storage projects
• Negotiate and establish local agreements that address tax abatement, Road Use and Decommissioning
• Establish and manage relationships with stakeholders, including elected officials, regulators, utilities, RTOs, and community leaders, to support project development
• Participate in policy outreach efforts to government officials regarding renewable energy industry issues
• Monitor interconnection studies performed by transmission providers and third parties and participate in interconnection agreement negotiations
• Manage the environmental study and permitting process
• Develop project budgets and support the financial analysis and modeling of the project
• Work with internal resources, such as the Legal, Engineering, Construction, Finance, Investment Analysis and Energy Assessment teams
• Manage external contractors supporting our portfolio of projects
• Provide reports to management by producing regular and frequent project updates
• Research energy market and competition on an ongoing basis
• Communicate information continuously and effectively to cross-functional team
• Additional duties as required

Direct reports : None; individual contributor

Travel : 50%

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