Power System Planner

Power System Planner

**INDEPENDENT ELECTRICITY SYSTEM OPERATOR (IESO)**

**Requisition ID**:

20483**Location**:

Toronto - Hybrid**Status**:

Temporary - up to 12 months**Business Unit**:

Power System Development**Why join us?**

You’ve got great skills. And you want to use them in an organization where you know what you do every day matters. We get that.
We also know that ensuring Ontarians have access to affordable and reliable power doesn’t happen by accident. So we give you the tools, flexibility and support you need to achieve your goals, and development opportunities to help you grow. You’ll thrive in a collaborative, team-based environment that values your unique skills and experiences - and recognizes that when you do better, we become even better too.

**Who we are**

The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) works at the centre of the province’s power system, ensuring Ontarians have access to reliable and cost-effective electricity when and where they need it. We operate the province’s electricity grid 24/7, design, run and oversee the wholesale electricity markets, and plan and prepare to meet Ontario’s electricity needs - now and into the future.

**The opportunity**

As part of the Resource Planning Division, the Planning Models group is responsible for maintaining resource planning models and databases, and providing capacity and energy modeling and analysis, including capacity expansion assessments. The Planner will primarily focus on resource adequacy assessments and the maintenance of planning models databases, while also having the opportunity to support the upcoming transition to PLEXOS.

The Planner is accountable to lead and/or participate in power system plan development and preparation in Resource Planning. The Planner is also responsible for conceiving, initiating, conducting, overseeing, and coordinating the necessary research and analysis involved in the development of integrated electricity system plans and supporting their implementation to advance and inform decision making at the IESO to ensure system reliability. This may include interactions with relevant parties and participation in the stakeholder engagement, regulatory, and procurement processes.

**What you’ll do**
- Perform various aspects of power system plan development and preparation, with a focus Resource Planning. This includes identifying needs, developing and evaluating options, making recommendations, and establishing a rationale for a preferred solution; working with those responsible for other planning streams to balance all aspects into distinct integrated plans; developing and maintaining tools and processes to support the requirements of their stream ; developing formal business cases and/or evidence required to support regulatory or other approvals processes to implement elements of integrated plans and, as required, representing IESO, defending these in public and regulatory forums.
- Conduct and often lead complex power system and other technical, economic, scenario, and risk studies or assessments as part of the integrated power system planning process. This includes the development or use of complex analytical models and data in order to simulate and assess the behaviour and performance of the power system in the Ontario context. Conduct research on technologies, planning methods and practices, bringing relevant external trends and practices to benefit Ontario’s planning. This requires each incumbent to work together with staff from the other streams to ensure well integrated plans. Specifically:

- _Resource & Economic Planning:_
- Competent in planning system resource mix to meet the short
- and long-term system adequacy while balancing economic and environmental attributes.
- Responsible for developing and maintaining updated assessments to inform system needs, acquisition processes and policy decisions.
- Responsible to work with Demand & Conservation Planning to understand the demand requirements and conservation opportunities; and with Transmission Planning to ensure the most effective deployment and utilization of resources for energy, operability and capacity
- Responsible to work with other groups (e.g. Markets, Operations) in the IESO to integrate information and insights to advance planning analysis.
- Participate, and frequently act as team leader, in the development of integrated bulk and/or regional plans. This includes the following:

- Managing relations on the team as well as with internal and external industry partners / customers /stakeholders/ communities etc.
- Managing the planning and study work;
- Developing and getting buy-in on objectives, solutions and actions;
- Developing the economic and/or sustainability rationale for system investments in preparation for any required approvals including regulatory review; and,
- Preparing required supporting documentation.
- Support the implementation of integrated and/or regional plans, including defining the scope and timin