NAEMA is pleased to announce this job opportunity on behalf of our member AEP Energy.
About AEP Energy
AEP Energy, a subsidiary of American Electric Power (Nasdaq: AEP), and its affiliates deliver a wide array of innovative competitive energy solutions nationwide. As a competitive retail and wholesale electricity and natural gas supplier, AEP Energy serves over 700,000 residential and business customers in 28 service territories in six states and Washington, D.C. As one of the largest wholesale suppliers in the country, AEP Energy also specializes in offering customized wholesale power supply products based on the specific needs of our customers’ electric systems within ERCOT, MISO, PJM and SPP. AEP Energy also sells renewable energy through long-term contracts with utilities, electric cooperatives, municipalities and corporate customers. With a commitment to a clean energy future, AEP Energy and its affiliates currently own over 1,900 megawatts of wind, solar and energy storage on both a utility scale and distributed scale basis. Solving energy problems for customers, AEP Energy and its affiliates own and operate over 90 behind-the-meter projects in 26 different states and has an active development pipeline across the U.S. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois and San Diego, California, AEP Energy takes pride in making it easy for customers and partners to buy, manage and use energy. For more information, visit AEP Energy Partners
Job Summary
Lead the management of existing renewable energy PPA contracts and lead the process of securing new renewable PPA resources on behalf of AEP Energy. Such activities to include developing and executing strategies, overseeing administration of requests for proposals, contract negotiation and project due diligence, providing input to draft power purchase agreements and coordination with shared service and AEP Energy Supply stakeholders for the approval, implementation and management of such purchases.
Guides, manages, and contributes to wholesale origination business and responsible for managing AEP’s competitive business’ (“Energy Supply”) wholesale customers. This position is responsible for originating wholesale full requirements leads and also responsible for selling the deal internally, navigating a rigorous vetting process, to gain approval and managing the team through execution which includes gaining input from several different departments such as Pricing, Legal, Credit, Accounting, Risk Management, and Trading.
This position will also work with the OnSite team to develop behind the meter customer solutions, and act as a liaison between Wholesale Origination, Trading, Scheduling, and Bid Optimization, and/or other commercial transactions and implementations as appropriate.
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Director, Energy and Renewable Marketing
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