The Electricity Planning and Policy (EPP) Branch within the Public Advocates Office is seeking a Public Utilities Regulatory Analyst II or III to join its Resource Planning team.

 

Under general direction of the Program and Project Supervisor of the Resource Planning Section, the incumbent will conduct complex and varied technical, economic, quantitative, and policy research and analyses in public utility regulation pertaining to a broad range of issues and recommend alternative solutions. Incumbent will evaluate various program aspects, including ratepayer impacts; program budget and expenditures; cost tests and forecasts, including models and inputs; regulatory priorities; and interaction with State and federal law. In addition, the incumbent will be expected to independently develop written reports, memoranda, sworn testimony, and comments in CPUC proceedings; serve as an expert witness for the Public Advocates Office on the results of completed studies and analyses; make formal presentations and advocate on behalf of the Public Advocates Office; and advise CPUC management, staff, and others. Incumbent will represent the Public Advocates Office in CPUC meetings, workshops, and other regulatory forums.

 

The incumbent will work with multi-disciplinary teams of analysts, engineers, lawyers, and, at times, student interns. Incumbent will work on a broad range of regulatory issues pertaining to Public Advocates Office’s advocacy, resource adequacy; Regionalization and PATHWAYS; integrated resource planning; power charge indifference adjustment; direct access; conventional and renewable energy; energy resource cost recovery; energy markets; energy research; and related issues.