Director, Grid Strategy & Utility Planning
Solar LandscapeAsbury Park, NJ
Full Time
Posted July 21, 2026
$170k - $220k
Solar Energy
Remote
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Job Description
Solar Landscape is the leading commercial rooftop solar developer in the U.S.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage utility planning and engineering teams to identify and advance opportunities to increase hosting capacity on constrained circuits.
- Build strong relationships across utility planning, asset management, engineering, operations, regulatory, and innovation teams.
- Develop technically credible, data-driven proposals that align distributed energy deployment with utility reliability and planning objectives.
- Identify, develop, and advance DERMS, dynamic hosting capacity, flexible interconnection, non-wire alternative, and other grid-modernization pilot opportunities.
- Analyze hosting-capacity maps, load forecasts, infrastructure plans, capital programs, and system-planning studies to inform market and siting strategy.
- Interpret integrated distribution plans, integrated resource plans, long-range transmission plans, and other utility planning filings.
- Monitor feeder and substation constraints, system-upgrade programs, load growth, electrification trends, and planned utility investments.
- Identify circuits and substations where targeted operational changes, grid technologies, or infrastructure investments could unlock additional DER capacity.
- Provide strategic guidance on integrating distributed solar and battery energy storage systems within utility distribution networks.
- Evaluate how operating requirements, export controls, tariffs, system limitations, and utility planning assumptions affect DER deployment.
- Support interpretation of feasibility studies, system-impact studies, facility studies, and related utility planning data.
- Provide input on point-of-interconnection strategy and system-integration considerations.
- Track emerging grid technologies, including ADMS, DERMS, advanced inverters, digital twins, VPPs, microgrids, and grid-enhancing technologies.
- Participate in utility working groups, regulatory forums, industry organizations, and technical conferences related to grid modernization and DER integration.
- Support development, interconnection, policy, and New Markets teams with early-stage grid intelligence and utility-planning insight.
- Translate utility planning information into clear recommendations for leadership and cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in electric utility planning, transmission or distribution engineering, grid modernization, or DER integration.
- Deep understanding of utility planning methodologies, system constraints, reliability, infrastructure development, and capital planning.
- Experience with distributed energy resources, renewable energy, battery energy storage, or advanced grid technologies.
- Strong familiarity with utility planning studies, hosting-capacity analysis, interconnection impacts, and grid-modernization initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to influence utility stakeholders and advance new technical or operational approaches.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex grid issues into actionable business recommendations.
- Experience within a major electric utility, ISO/RTO, grid consulting firm, or adjacent energy organization strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with PJM, NYISO, CAISO, ERCOT, MISO, or other major U.S. power markets preferred.
- Experience advancing DERMS, dynamic hosting capacity, flexible interconnection, non-wire alternatives, or related pilots preferred.
- Professional Engineer license or an advanced degree in power systems, energy policy, or a related discipline preferred.
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