Senior Security-of-Supply Modelling Lead

National Energy System Operator Limited; Warwick; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days annual leave

Pension with company match

NESO Savings Plan

Job summary

National Energy System Operator (NESO) seeks a Principal Security of Supply Modelling Specialist to join our team. Based in the UK, you will combine deep analytical expertise with an understanding of power systems, GB electricity markets and energy policy to address emerging adequacy challenges.

You will lead cross-disciplinary work across modelling, markets and policy, shape methodologies, and guide capability development while engaging senior stakeholders across government and industry.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in electricity security of supply, capacity adequacy assessment and probabilistic risk analysis.
• Advanced knowledge of adequacy modelling techniques, optimisation methods, statistical analysis and uncertainty assessment.

Responsibilities

• Maximise the value of NESO's specialist modelling and analytical expertise by connecting insights across adequacy modelling, technology development, electricity markets and policy, ensuring individual areas of excellence contribute to a coherent understanding of future security of supply.
• Define the future direction of security of supply assessment, working with our modelling experts to identify where existing methodologies, assumptions and analytical frameworks must evolve to address emerging energy system challenges.
• Act as a leading technical authority on electricity security of supply, providing expert insight and thought leadership on nationally significant adequacy issues.
• Serve as the technical anchor across modelling, technologies, markets and policy, integrating expertise from multiple disciplines to develop a coherent whole-system understanding of security of supply.
• Enhance and connect the work of NESO's specialist analytical teams, ensuring technical insights, methodologies and assumptions remain coherent across domains and time horizons.
• Shape external thinking and internal capability, influencing national debate on adequacy while developing the next generation of security of supply expertise within NESO.

Skills

Security of supply

Energy system adequacy

Probabilistic risk analysis

Adequacy modelling

Optimisation methods

Statistical analysis

Uncertainty assessment

PLEXOS

PyPSA

Antares

BID3

GB electricity markets

Capacity Market design

Stakeholder engagement

Technical leadership

Tools

PLEXOS

PyPSA

Antares

BID3

Job description

National Energy System Operator (NESO) seeks a Principal Security of Supply Modelling Specialist to join our team. Based in the UK, you will combine deep analytical expertise with an understanding of power systems, GB electricity markets and energy policy to address emerging adequacy challenges.

You will lead cross-disciplinary work across modelling, markets and policy, shape methodologies, and guide capability development while engaging senior stakeholders across government and industry.