About us:

Clearlight Energy, an LS Power company established in 2025, operates more than 3,000 MW across 44 assets consisting of utility scale solar, wind, battery storage and renewable natural gas in North America. Approximately 2,700 MW of its operations are located in the U.S., across NYISO, MISO, PJM, ERCOT and CAISO markets, with the remaining 300 MW located in Canada. The Company is headquartered in Oakville, Ontario with employees in both Canada and the United States.

Clearlight Energy focuses on providing operational excellence to supply critical energy capacity and meet growing demand. Additionally, it has a 1,200 MW development pipeline of additional renewable resources to support grid reliability and decarbonization.

About the Role:

This position will focus on energy markets, with specific interest in ERCOT market. You will utilize quantitative skills, a combination of tools, and market knowledge to collect and analyze market data, supporting your hedge strategies recommendations and execution. You will actively manage positions stemming from a portfolio of assets like solar, wind, and battery storage; optimizing and hedging risks such as intermittency, congestion, and DART spreads.

What you will do…

• Apply quantitative analysis to understand market dynamics and make data-driven decisions, using data sources such as weather forecasts, ISO data, asset specific info, PPA conditions, etc.
• Actively manage volumetric, congestion and DART exposures, using market instruments such as outright power, CRRs/PTPs, virtuals, options.
• Co-develop tools and integrated systems supporting the trading activity, such as stack models, bidding tools, dashboards.
• Track market dynamics, following fundamentals, trends, regulatory updates.
• Maintain close interaction with operational teams, collecting real-time asset insights and proving them with market info to base operational decisions (e.g., maintenances, LD estimates, etc.).
• Present hedge strategies (and their results) to executive committees and broader groups, (e.g., including teams such as finance, operations, legal, asset managers, etc.).
• Collaborate with trading teams across the organization sharing and aligning market insights and views.

We want you on our team because you…

• Have a good understanding of ERCOT market design and dynamics work, or alternatively, another competitive wholesale market in the US region.
• Have experience transacting in power markets, especially with short- and medium-term products, with instruments such as dailies, weeklies, virtuals, congestion rights, etc.
• Are skilled in quantitative analysis and can apply those skills in a market context.
• Have a passion for the energy market, particularly in renewable sources like solar and wind, as well as storage technologies.
• Can keep track of market trends, fundamentals, and regulatory changes in ERCOT (such as RTC+B) and interpret their impacts in the overall market conditions.

Ideally, you also have…

• Direct knowledge of how to manage or optimize energy assets like solar, wind, battery storage, or thermal plants.
• Deep knowledge of additional ISOs such as PJM/MISO.
• Good understanding in risk management, usual metrics and thresholds.
• Proficiency handling complex data sets, using tools such as Excel and Python (SQL queries is a plus).