Distributed Energy Transactions & Origination Associate

Dispatch Energy, LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Dispatch Energy, LLC is seeking a Transactions and Origination Associate to evaluate, negotiate, and execute distributed energy transactions, including behind-the-meter BESS. You will work with the origination team to model economics and structure deals across storage, solar, wind, and other capacity solutions.

You will track regulatory developments, analyze market rules, and translate findings into practical recommendations for origination and transaction execution, partnering with finance,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, finance, engineering, public policy, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of experience in energy transactions, financial modeling, project finance, power marketing, or energy policy.
• Strong Excel-based financial modeling skills, including cash-flow projections, scenario analysis, and sensitivity testing.
• Working knowledge of project economics, commercial energy agreements, and power markets.
• Strong written and verbal communication, attention to detail, and ability to coordinate multiple transactions and cross-functional workstreams.
• Experience with distributed energy, behind-the-meter battery storage, VPPAs, capacity agreements, or broker relationships is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Participate directly in customer and counterparty negotiations alongside the origination team, presenting commercial terms, evaluating trade-offs, and working through open issues.
• Build and maintain financial models to evaluate project cash flows, returns, and deal pricing. Run scenarios and sensitivities for tariffs, incentives, market revenues, costs, and financing assumptions, and use the results to inform negotiations and investment decisions.
• Manage the development economics of greenfield battery storage projects, including behind-the-meter BESS installed on site at the distribution level, updating project models as site conditions, design, interconnection, costs, and schedules evolve.
• Coordinate opportunity intake, review commercial information, discuss pricing and terms, and maintain responsive follow-up with brokers and the origination team as transactions progress.
• Assist with power marketing for virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) and capacity purchase agreements. Evaluate pricing and contract terms, prepare commercial proposals, and participate in counterparty discussions and negotiations in coordination with the origination, finance, and legal teams.

Skills

Financial modeling

Negotiation

Power markets knowledge

Excel

Project finance

Regulatory analysis

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, finance, engineering, public policy, or a related field

Tools

CRM tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Python

SQL

Power BI

Job description

Dispatch Energy, LLC is seeking a Transactions and Origination Associate to evaluate, negotiate, and execute distributed energy transactions, including behind-the-meter BESS. You will work with the origination team to model economics and structure deals across storage, solar, wind, and other capacity solutions.

You will track regulatory developments, analyze market rules, and translate findings into practical recommendations for origination and transaction execution, partnering with finance,