Washington, DC21 days ago
Own a core body of work within CEP’s electricity portfolio, including setting priorities, managing timelines, and ensuring delivery of high-quality outputs; Conduct and oversee in-depth research on policies to reform electricity markets, regulation, utility cost recovery, and transmission financing, with a focus on advancing electricity affordability; Author high-impact written reports, memos, and other products that influence the public discourse and advance center-left policies to promote electricity affordability; Develop a work plan, with input from supervisor, to set objectives for and contribute to CEP’s electricity portfolio as well as strategies, products, events, and other resources to advance those objectives; Collaborate with fellow NGOs and with regulatory, utility, and other electricity sector stakeholders to identify policy needs and build consensus around proposals to meet them; Manage relationships with key contacts from across the government—including Congressional offices, FERC, DOE, other relevant federal agencies, and state governments—to stay current on policy developments, advocate for center-left electricity policy solutions, and advise on effective policy implementation; Collaborate with colleagues across the Climate and Energy Program to ensure policy proposals, products, and advocacy plans are coordinated for maximum impact; Manage and coordinate contracts with consultants covering electricity workstreams outside the advisor’s core expertise; Represent Third Way in relevant meetings, working groups, congressional briefings, and public speaking engagements on electricity policy. This includes developing and advancing policies across one or more of the team’s core workstreams—electricity markets and regulation, power sector economics, utility business model reform, transmission financing, and the data center and electricity nexus—and communicating those policy ideas to key external stakeholders including Congressional offices, federal agencies, utilities, grid planners, and other NGOs.