Senior Associate, Grid Integration
Cypress Creek RenewablesAsheville, North Carolina
Full Time
Posted June 27, 2025
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Job Description
The Senior Associate role involves supporting the development and execution of solar and storage projects by managing interconnection requests, analyzing regulatory and market changes, and collaborating with internal teams to ensure efficient project integration in regulated markets, primarily in the Southeast.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage generator interconnection requests and support projects through study phases in SERC, focusing on Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress.
- Support Interconnection Agreement negotiations, review milestones, and coordinate with internal teams across development, engineering, and legal.
- Review Resource Solicitation Cluster Study reports to identify interconnection costs, network upgrades, and affected systems.
- Maintain internal tracking of interconnection agreement milestones, costs, utility upgrade scopes, and security requirements.
- Review interconnection request submissions and financial models for data accuracy and consistency.
- Monitor regulatory updates, stakeholder proceedings, and transmission planning activities in SERC.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure timely, cost-effective, and technically sound project interconnections.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Energy Systems, or a related technical field
- At least 3 years of experience managing interconnection requests and study processes at an infrastructure developer, electric utility, transmission provider, or energy consulting firm, preferably in the Southeast
- Direct experience with regulated utility interconnection processes in SERC, ideally with Duke Energy
- Familiarity with the North Carolina Interconnection Agreement (NCIA) for state-jurisdictional generator interconnections
- Strong understanding of OATT, transmission system planning, interconnection queue management, and regulatory frameworks such as FERC LGIP
- Excellent analytical, research, and written communication skills
- Ability to interpret interconnection study results and identify associated risks for non-technical internal teams
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with a proactive, solutions-driven approach
- Ability to support generator interconnection requests and support projects through study phases in SERC, with a focus on Duke Energy Carolinas (DEC) and Duke Energy Progress (DEP)
- Experience supporting Interconnection Agreement (IA) negotiations, reviewing IA milestones, and coordinating with internal teams across development, engineering, and legal
- Experience reviewing Resource Solicitation Cluster Study (RSCS) reports to identify interconnection costs, network upgrades, contingent facilities, and potential affected systems
- Maintaining internal tracking of IA milestones, including interconnection costs, utility upgrade scopes, and financial security requirements
- Reviewing interconnection request submissions and associated financial models to ensure data accuracy and consistency
- Monitoring regulatory updates, stakeholder proceedings, and transmission planning activities in SERC
- Collaborating cross-functionally to ensure timely, cost-effective, and technically sound project interconnections
Benefits & Perks
15 days of Paid Time Off, with accrual up to 20 days, plus 11 observed holidays
401 k Match
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and health insurance
Wellness stipend
Family planning stipend
Generous parental leave
Tuition reimbursement
Phone bill reimbursement
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