MBA Intern, Strategy & Development

Soluna; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 41,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Soluna is seeking an MBA Intern for Development & Strategy to help source and screen renewable-energy opportunities. You will evaluate power cost, interconnection status, land, and credibility, producing a one-page summary for each lead and recommending next steps.

This high-ownership internship sits on a small team that influences where Soluna builds next. You will build first-pass economic screens, test sensitivities, and pressure-test counterparty assumptions against market data.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in an MBA program with expected graduation date following the internship period.
• Strong Excel modeling skills — comfortable building a screening model from a blank sheet.
• Demonstrated analytical judgment: ability to reach a defensible answer with incomplete information.
• Clear, concise written communication; able to compress a complicated opportunity for executives.
• Genuine interest in energy, digital infrastructure, or the intersection of the two.

Responsibilities

• Run inbound and sourced leads through Soluna's qualification framework, evaluating power cost, interconnection, land, fiber, water, and credibility.
• Produce a standard one-page qualification summary for each lead for quick go/no-go decisions.
• Recommend advance, park, or pass on opportunities with written reasoning.
• Maintain the lead intake queue so nothing sits unreviewed.
• Build first-pass economic screens with estimated power costs, capacity sizing, capex, and return.
• Run sensitivities on variables that move the answer (price, curtailment, hashprice, energization time).
• Pressure-test counterparty assumptions against market data and flag unsupported claims.
• Keep the screening model clean and reusable for post-internship use.
• Track opportunities across ERCOT, SPP, MISO, and PJM including interconnection queue and curtailment trends.
• Update the pipeline tracker and executive summary for leadership visibility.
• Research specific markets, utilities, or counterparties on demand.
• Present a summer project to leadership — durable improvement to Soluna's screening/ qualification.

Skills

Excel modeling

Analytical judgment

Written communication

Interest in energy/digital infra

Education

MBA program

Tools

PowerPoint

Orennia

Velocity Suite

Job description

Soluna is on a mission to solve one of renewable energy’s biggest challenges: wasted power. Our data centers convert excess solar, hydro, and wind energy into productive computational work , such as Bitcoin mining, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. By co-locating with renewable power sources, we bring demand directly to the source, helping power plants increase revenue while contributing more megawatts to the grid.

We are looking for an MBA Intern, Development & Strategy to join our world-class team.

The Opportunity

Soluna's growth depends on finding the right sites before anyone else does. Every week, inbound leads arrive from independent power producers, renewable developers, landowners, and brokers — and our team sources many more. Most of them will not work. A small number are exceptional. The difference between the two is a disciplined screen: is there curtailed or low-cost power, is there a credible path to interconnection, is there land, fiber, and water, and does the arithmetic clear our return threshold?

This internship owns the front end of that funnel. You will take raw leads, run them through Soluna's qualification criteria, build a first-pass economic screen, and produce a clear recommendation on whether the opportunity advances to full diligence or gets a fast, well-reasoned no. The modeling is deliberately light — enough to size the opportunity and pressure-test the assumptions, not a full project finance build. Speed and judgment matter more than precision at this stage.

This is a high-ownership role on a small team: your screens will be read by the people who decide where Soluna builds next.

What You'll Do

• Run inbound and sourced leads through Soluna's qualification framework — power cost and curtailment profile, interconnection status and queue position, land control, fiber and water availability, and counterparty credibility.
• Produce a standard one-page qualification summary for each lead so the team can make a go / no-go call quickly and consistently.
• Recommend advance, park, or pass on every opportunity you touch, with the reasoning written down — including the reasoning behind the passes.
• Maintain the lead intake queue so nothing sits unreviewed and the team always knows what is waiting.
• Build first-pass economic screens for qualified sites — estimated cost of power, capacity sizing, indicative capex, and top-line return.
• Run sensitivities on the variables that actually move the answer , such as energy price, curtailment hours, hashprice or contracted AI/HPC revenue, and time to energization.
• Pressure-test counterparty assumptions against market data and flag where a lead's claims are not supported by the underlying economics.
• Keep the screening model clean and reusable so the team can run it without you after the internship ends.
• Track opportunities across ERCOT, SPP, MISO, and PJM , including interconnection queue movement and curtailment trends that create new leads.
• Update the pipeline tracker and executive summary so leadership has a current view of what is in the funnel and where it stands.
• Research specific markets, utilities, or counterparties on demand to support live deal conversations.
• Present a summer project to the Development & Strategy team and senior leadership — a durable improvement to how Soluna screens and qualifies opportunities.

What You Bring

Required

• Currently enrolled in an MBA program, with an expected graduation date following the internship period.
• Strong Excel modeling skills — comfortable building a screening model from a blank sheet, not just editing someone else's.
• Demonstrated analytical judgment: the ability to reach a defensible answer with incomplete information and say clearly what you do not know.
• Clear, concise written communication; you can compress a complicated opportunity into one page a busy executive will actually read.
• Genuine interest in energy, digital infrastructure, or the intersection of the two.

Preferred

• Familiarity with U.S. wholesale power markets, interconnection processes, or renewable project development.
• Exposure to market data platforms such as Orennia, Velocity Suite, or similar.
• Working knowledge of Bitcoin mining economics or AI/HPC data center demand drivers.
• Comfort building in PowerPoint for investor- and board-facing audiences.

We are a diverse, driven team of entrepreneurs, energy experts, private equity leaders, storytellers and engineers. We are passionate about making the world greener and we have conviction about how we will bring change on a global scale.

We are equally as zealous about championing our teams, relentless about developing our people, and believe strongly that Soluna’s goals and commitment to our mission are strengthened by our employee’s voices.