Opportunity Development Lead

Join a growing organisation, part of the global Berkshire Hathaway Energy group
- Be part of the company vision to secure a sustainable energy future
- Identify, evaluate and capture new renewable energy investment opportunities
- Join a growing organisation, part of the global Berkshire Hathaway Energy group
- Be part of the company vision to secure a sustainable energy future
- Identify, evaluate and capture new renewable energy investment opportunities

CalEnergy Resources (Australia) Limited, a subsidiary of the Northern Powergrid Group of Companies and part of the Berkshire Hathaway Energy (BHE) group, is recruiting for a full-time permanent
**Opportunity Development Lead - Renewable Energy**, reporting to the Business Development Director you will identify, evaluate and capture new renewable energy investment opportunities in Australia.

**About CalEnergy Resources**
With roots in renewable energy, BHE’s portfolio consists of locally managed businesses that share a vision for a secure and sustainable energy future. These businesses deliver affordable, safe and reliable service each day to millions of customers around the world and consistently rank high among energy companies in customer satisfaction.

CalEnergy has been operational in Australia since the early 2000s. Whilst their Australian history has sat within natural gas primarily, the future pathway is into renewables. Technology-agnostic, they have already invested and acquired the Gunnedah and Suntop Solar Farms totalling 345 MWp in New South Wales. CalEnergy locally manages different stages of project and asset maturity as part of the BHE strategy to invest in growth opportunities and acquire projects or assets that are additive to our business.

CalEnergy has established a framework to build out a growing renewable energy generation and storage pipeline in Australia.

**Responsibilities**
- Identify and rank potential renewable project opportunities, considering development maturity, transmission and grid connection, resource quality and yield, permitting, land use and ownership, stakeholder, site and other constraints.
- Critically review and assess vendor, developer or owner project and economic inputs including energy yield production estimates, capacity constraints, curtailment and loss factors.
- Carry out technical due diligence for potential greenfield and operating renewable asset acquisitions including the identification of opportunity risks and opportunities.
- Review development and construction risks, capital estimates, operational and performance data, reports and contracts to generate the long-term costs and participate in overall opportunity valuation activities.
- Support the development of inhouse capability of renewable energy technologies and projects.
- Critical review and interrogation of vendor or proponent economic models.
- Engagement with external stakeholders such as regulatory, local communities and landowners.
- Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of technological, environmental, and social changes effecting renewable project development and operation, particularly in Australia.

**About You**
This would be an ideal role for an engineer, renewable energy technologist or a commercially astute advisor within the renewable energy market with direct Australian experience in renewable energy project development, resource assessment, design & engineering, environmental and regulatory, permitting and grid connection, project management construction or operations.
- Degree qualified (Finance, Commerce, Law). Master of Business Administration or secondary technical qualifications in Science or Engineering (mechanical, civil, electrical, renewable energy) will be highly regarded.
- Deep working knowledge of permitting and regulatory planning and approvals across all levels of Australian government (local, state & federal) in at least one of, if not both of, the National Electricity Market (NEM) and the Whoselsale Electricity Market (WEM)
- An acute understanding of the opportunities and challenges for connecting to the grid and operating renewable energy generation projects in the Australian electricity market
- A familiarity with the structure, risk patterns and trends of operations and generation commercial agreements, including but not limited to, land access agreements, grid connection agreements, EPC and EPCM agreements, Balance of Plant (BOP) agreements, operations and maintenance (O&M) agreements, Power Purchase Agreements (PPA’s).
- Contemporary understanding of industry trends, regulations, and third-party expertise in the critical analysis of renewable generation projects or assets.
- Good understanding of techniques and uncertainties in renewable energy resource yield modelling, analysis and forecasting.
- Exceptional analytical skills to manipulate large amounts of technical and/or economic data.
- Demonstrated knowledge of renewable generation technology plant and equipment and their performance
- Commercial a