EPRI is a big one that sits between industry and academia and hires plenty of both to act as an R&D hub for industry.
The large RTO/ISOs (CAISO, ERCOT, SPP, MISO, PJM, ISO-NE, NYISO) run large regions of the grid and work to maintain the reliable operation of the grid, optimize the use of hundreds of generators every 5 minutes in automatic competitive auctions, and plan certain upgrades like transmission.
Consulting firms (too many to count) like EPE typically run simulations for anyone who needs it done
Software Vendors (GE, Siemens, Hitachi, Energy Exemplar...etc)
Utilities that are members of the RTO/ISOs (or independent as in the South east)
Renewables developers (Nextera, EDF, ENEL...etc) that try to get renewables built and then participate in the RTO/ISO markets.
This is just a section of the power industry as well. Good paying jobs, but a fair amount of red tape too depending on where you go. From a software perspective there's a lot of IT Enterprise work, a lot of programming that engineers do typically involves calling the APIs of commercial software and trying to analyze the resulting data. R&D work typically involves building prototypes. Enterprise software is typically Java, SQL, C#, JavaScript, or C++ depending on what it is. The engineer stuff is mostly in Python. R&D work is typically Python or Matlab.
Can you be more specific as to your background and skills?
Thanks this is a good place for me to start digging into. I have BS/MS in CS/HCI, but I've been working as a product designer for nearly a decade now. I'm planning on moving back towards the engineering side of things though and energy is one industry I'm interested in.
7thaccount|2 years ago
National Labs (NREL, Argonne, Sandia...etc)
EPRI is a big one that sits between industry and academia and hires plenty of both to act as an R&D hub for industry.
The large RTO/ISOs (CAISO, ERCOT, SPP, MISO, PJM, ISO-NE, NYISO) run large regions of the grid and work to maintain the reliable operation of the grid, optimize the use of hundreds of generators every 5 minutes in automatic competitive auctions, and plan certain upgrades like transmission.
Consulting firms (too many to count) like EPE typically run simulations for anyone who needs it done
Software Vendors (GE, Siemens, Hitachi, Energy Exemplar...etc)
Utilities that are members of the RTO/ISOs (or independent as in the South east)
Renewables developers (Nextera, EDF, ENEL...etc) that try to get renewables built and then participate in the RTO/ISO markets.
This is just a section of the power industry as well. Good paying jobs, but a fair amount of red tape too depending on where you go. From a software perspective there's a lot of IT Enterprise work, a lot of programming that engineers do typically involves calling the APIs of commercial software and trying to analyze the resulting data. R&D work typically involves building prototypes. Enterprise software is typically Java, SQL, C#, JavaScript, or C++ depending on what it is. The engineer stuff is mostly in Python. R&D work is typically Python or Matlab.
Can you be more specific as to your background and skills?
throwawayai2|2 years ago