Senior Gas Resource Planning Analyst
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Xcel Energy
📍 St Paul, MN, United States
Job Description
Are you looking for an exciting job where you can put your skills and talents to work at a company you can feel proud to be a part of? Do you want a workplace that will challenge you and offer you opportunities to learn and grow? A position at Xcel Energy could be just what you’re looking for.
**Position Summary**
The Gas Resource Analyst plays a critical role in supporting long-range gas planning by developing and executing analytical modeling that informs resource decisions, system reliability, and regulatory strategy. The role requires hands-on experience with the PLEXOS optimization platform, which is used to model the natural gas system as an interconnected network of pipelines, storage, supply and demand side resources, and customer demand, and to identify least-cost resource portfolios under various scenarios and constraints. Analysts integrate forecasts, supply contracts, demand-side programs, and policy assumptions into the model, run scenarios, and interpre...
**Position Summary**
The Gas Resource Analyst plays a critical role in supporting long-range gas planning by developing and executing analytical modeling that informs resource decisions, system reliability, and regulatory strategy. The role requires hands-on experience with the PLEXOS optimization platform, which is used to model the natural gas system as an interconnected network of pipelines, storage, supply and demand side resources, and customer demand, and to identify least-cost resource portfolios under various scenarios and constraints. Analysts integrate forecasts, supply contracts, demand-side programs, and policy assumptions into the model, run scenarios, and interpre...