Generation Development Director, Large Load

National Grid; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 211,000 - 266,000; Full time

Job summary

National Grid is seeking a Generation Development Director for Large Loads to lead nationwide development of generation projects, spanning conventional, renewable, and storage assets. This hybrid role supports siting, permitting, interconnection, and commercial structuring for large load customers such as data centers and industrials.

You will coordinate across engineering, legal, finance, regulatory, and community stakeholders to optimize LCOE/IRR and drive project delivery from origination

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Economics, Energy, Environmental Science, or related discipline.
• MBA or advanced technical degree preferred.
• 10+ years in energy infrastructure project development with leadership across multiple asset classes (conventional generation assets preferable).
• Track record of taking generation projects from origination through FID and into construction (≥500 MW cumulative preferred).
• Direct experience supporting transactions with large load / data center customers is strongly preferred.
• Experience working for AI, data center, large industrial load, semiconductor manufacturing or similar large energy consumption loads is desirable.
• Deep knowledge of generation technologies: combined-cycle and simple-cycle gas turbines, reciprocating engines, solar PV, wind, and Li-ion BESS.
• Strong understanding of interconnection processes, queue reform, and behind-the-meter configurations across multiple ISOs/RTOs.
• Familiarity with grid services, ancillary markets, capacity constructs, and resource adequacy frameworks.
• Proficiency interpreting financial models (project finance, tax equity, back-leverage structures) and key metrics (NPV, IRR, DSCR, LCOE/LCOS).
• Familiarity with NEPA, CWA, ESA, and state siting regimes and air permitting for thermal generation.
• Track record of leading cross-functional teams and managing multiple high-priority workstreams.
• Excellent written, oral, and visual communication skills, with ability to present complex matters to executives and boards.

Responsibilities

• Originate, structure, plan, and secure development of generation projects nationally for large load customers, including hyperscale data centers and industrial offtakers.
• Oversee macro end-to-end development with engineering, permitting, routing, scheduling, resource planning, and interconnections.
• Structure PPAs, ESAs, tolling agreements, capacity contracts, and hybrid offtake arrangements with commercial teams.
• Coordinate with legal, finance, corporate, regulatory, and community stakeholders as needed.
• Build and maintain a pipeline of conventional, renewable, and hybrid generation opportunities aligned with NGV’s strategy.
• Advance project approvals from origination through FID and into construction, ensured by project delivery teams.
• Engage with customers and their technical teams to support sales and contracting.
• Model project economics including LCOE/LCOS, IRR analyses, and sensitivity checks.
• Support site control, permitting, interconnection, and risk assessment for development milestones.
• Select OEM technology partners and EPC contractors, define balance-of-plant scope.
• Navigate IRA tax credits, interconnection reforms, and siting board processes across states.
• Represent NGV in stakeholder forums with ISOs/RTOs, regulators, communities, and tribal nations.

Job description

About Us

National Grid lies at the heart of a transforming energy system, spanning the US and UK. Our businesses supply gas and electricity, safely, reliably and efficiently to millions of customers and communities. But we also drive change through engineering innovation and by incubating new ideas with the power to revolutionize our industry.

About Us

National Grid lies at the heart of a transforming energy system, spanning the US and UK. Our businesses supply gas and electricity, safely, reliably and efficiently to millions of customers and communities. But we also drive change through engineering innovation and by incubating new ideas with the power to revolutionize our industry.

National Grid Ventures (NGV) is the competitive division of National Grid plc, one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the world. It operates outside of National Grid’s core regulated businesses in the US and UK where it develops, operates and invests in energy projects, technologies and partnerships to accelerate the development of our clean energy future.

National Grid Ventures’ diverse portfolio of energy businesses across the US, UK and Europe includes sub-sea electricity interconnectors, liquefied natural gas, battery storage, as well as conventional and renewable generation assets.

NGV is hiring a Generation Development Director, Large Load

This hybrid postion can sit in either our Boston, MA, Waltham, MA, Brooklyn NY or Washington DC location.

Job Purpose

The Generation Development Director for Large Loads reports into the Chief Commercial Officer – Large Load Solutions. This role will be responsible for the technical customer interface for the full lifecycle development and service offerings of behind-the-meter (BTM) and front-of-the-meter (FTM) generation assets — including conventional (natural gas, reciprocating engines, combined cycle), renewable (solar, wind), and battery energy storage systems (BESS) — to meet the unprecedented demand growth driven by large load customers, data centers, and electrification across the nation. The role will coordinate across commercial, technical, financial and regulatory teams to advance the large load business.

Key Accountabilities

• Originate, structure, plan, and secure development of generation projects nationally to support large load customers, including hyperscale data centers, AI compute campuses, and industrial offtakers.
• Oversee macro end-to-end development working closely with:
• Asset Development teams responsible for engineering, permitting, routing, scheduling, resource planning, sourcing requirements, transmission interconnections and other technical functions.
• Commercial business development team on structuring PPAs, ESAs, tolling agreements, capacity contracts, and hybrid offtake structures.
• Legal, finance, corporate, community stakeholder teams and other support functions as needed.
• Build and maintain a pipeline of conventional, renewable, and hybrid (solar + storage, gas + BESS) powered land generation opportunities aligned with NGV's large load commercial strategy.
• Advance project approvals from origination through revenue contracts, with ongoing oversight through FID, into execution with successful transition to construction, project delivery teams, commissioning and transition to operations.
• Participate in customer conversations and liaise with their technical teams to support the sales and contracting process and build trusted advisor relationships with prospective and existing large load requirements for infrastructure, energy, and sustainability.
• Manage project economics in partnership with commercial and financial analysts to develop attractive power services offerings, including LCOE/LCOS optimization, IRR modeling, and sensitivity analysis.
• Support identification and securing of greenfield and brownfield sites, evaluating land control, fuel/resource availability, transmission access, and community/permitting risk.
• Direct technical due diligence teams across resource assessment, GHG/emissions profiling, heat rate optimization, capacity factor modeling, round-trip efficiency (BESS), and degradation curves.
• Guide selection of OEM technology partners (turbines, inverters, battery chemistries — LFP/NMC), EPC contractors, and balance-of-plant scope definition.
• Navigate state and federal policy frameworks including IRA tax credits (ITC/PTC, transferability, direct pay), FERC Orders 2023/2023-A interconnection reforms, and state siting boards (e.g., NY ORES, Article VII).
• Support stage-gate governance, risk registers, and contingency planning across development milestones (e.g. site control, permitting, interconnection, FID, NTP).
• Represent NGV in stakeholder forums with ISOs/RTOs, state regulators, host communities, and tribal nations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Economics, Energy, Environmental Science, or related discipline required; MBA or advanced technical degree preferred.
• Relevant professional certifications (PE, PMP) a plus.
• 10+ years in energy infrastructure project development with demonstrated leadership across multiple asset classes (conventional generation assets preferable)
• Track record of taking generation projects from origination through FID and into construction (≥500 MW cumulative preferred).
• Direct experience supporting transactions with large load / data center customers is strongly preferred.
• Experience working for AI, data canter, large industrial load, semi-conductor manufacturing or similar large energy consumption loads is desirable.
• Experience working in Joint Ventures is desirable.
• Deep knowledge of generation technologies: combined-cycle and simple-cycle gas turbines, reciprocating engines, solar PV (single-axis tracker, bifacial), onshore wind, and Li-ion BESS (2-hour, 4-hour, and long-duration applications).
• Strong understanding of interconnection processes, queue reform, surplus interconnection service (SIS), co-location, and behind-the-meter configurations across PJM, NYISO, ISO-NE, MISO, ERCOT, SPP, and CAISO.
• Strong knowledge of federal and state large load emerging policies
• Strong knowledge of the different EPC/EPCM contracting models, OEM equipment supply agreements, and major equipment lead times in current market conditions.
• Familiarity with grid services, ancillary markets, capacity constructs, and resource adequacy frameworks.
• Proficiency interpreting financial models (project finance, tax equity, back-leverage structures) and key metrics (NPV, IRR, DSCR, LCOE/LCOS).
• Familiarity with NEPA, CWA, ESA, state siting regimes, and air permitting (Title V, PSD) for thermal generation.
• Track record of leading cross-functional teams and managing multiple high-priority workstreams simultaneously
• Excellent written, oral, and visual communication skills, with demonstrated ability to present complex commercial and regulatory matters to senior executives and boards
• Experience managing and developing high-performing commercial teams
• Highly collaborative; comfortable operating across organizational boundaries and in matrixed environments
• Entrepreneurial mindset; comfortable building new capabilities and charting new commercial paths in a fast-moving environment

Salary

• New England MA $211,000 - $248,000 a year
• Downstate NY $227,000 - $266,000 a year
• Washington DC $211,000 - $248,000 a year

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This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.

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