Contract, Energy Innovation Consultant (12 Months) / Toronto Hydro Corporation | Eluta.ca
Toronto Hydro has implemented a mandatory vaccination requirement for all its employees. Proof of full vaccination will be required upon receiving a conditional offer of employment. Toronto Hydro will provide reasonable accommodation to individuals who cannot be vaccinated due to disability or any other ground protected by the Ontario Human Rights Code.
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Distribution Grid Operations:
The Energy Innovation Consultant is responsible for day-to-day operations of the Energy Centre (monitoring, forecasting and dispatch services for Distributed Energy Resources (DER) using the Energy Centre platform), relationship management for DER customers (including management of formal operating agreements and responding to inquiries/requests/escalations), and development/implementation/optimization of Energy Centre processes, systems and tools. Additional accountabilities may grow to include energy transactions, ancillary grid services, and financial settlement. The Energy Centre links to DER across the Toronto Hydro system via SCADA. The Energy Innovation Consultant collaborates closely with the Control Centre, Energy Solutions, Key Accounts and supports implementation of the Energy Centre’s vision of monitoring, forecasting, controlling of SCADA points >50kW resources, improving visibility of resources for safe grid operation and restoration, supporting dispatch services and financial transactions, providing aggregate resource visibility to IESO, and managing energy flows (vs. system configuration).
Business Development & Innovation:
The Energy Innovation Consultant is responsible for driving projects by developing customer-focused and technically sound business cases within new lines of business as identified by the organization. This includes activities and initiatives involving electric vehicles, battery storage, interactive grid solutions, distributed energy resources (DER) and associated energy transactions. This role supports assigned customers by providing a single point of contact in fostering and developing project opportunities. Solutions will result from working closely with Engineering, while collaborating with other stakeholders and business units (such as Distribution Grid Operations) in building viable projects, and seeking approval for initiatives within established governance processes in exciting and nascent innovative spaces. The Energy Innovation Consultant responds to specific general customer inquiries associated with potential projects within their area of interest to promote potential solutions for customers, referencing economic and non-financial benefits. S/he also works closely with Key Account Consultants within established relationships to apply his/her specialized knowledge to develop deeper knowledge-based relationships with key customers.
The incumbent is expected to behave ethically and follow the established code of business conduct, policies and internal control procedures, laws and regulations governing Toronto Hydro.
Successful candidates must possess the following competencies and will be pre-screened for those bolded, prior to the interview portion of the selection process. Competencies are listed in order of significance.
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