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Renewable Energy Intern - Canada and Northeast [Remote]

ID
2024-4404
Category
Intern
Position Type
Intern
Pay Range
TBD

Scope of Position

Supporting Agrivoltaics: Researching agrivoltaics practices, attending webinars, providing written summaries of materials and supporting preparation of power point presentations and other external communications. 

Supporting project due diligence and bid submissions.  Soft project management tasks, preparing presentations, supporting land acquisition, permitting, interconnection. 

Supporting Community Engagement: Ridge View Solar United Hartland Niagara Facebook page - preparing articles and responding to comments; providing research and drafting responses for questions and concerns that come from the community, for both solar and wind projects, preparing presentations for internal and external meetings. 

Maintaining updated project materials and increasing outreach to youth markets 

Various Project development tasks, including helping with permitting, land control, project management tasks. 

Responsibilities

 

Goals of Internship:

  • Provide experience for university student to learn the ropes of renewable energy development
  • Acquire services of a resource for minimal cost, able to provide entry level tasks and administrative support for the development team to offload some tasks enabling our team to focus more on delivering megawatts for the organization
  • Provides another viewpoint to our organization and development team - perhaps creating value that would not otherwise have been created.

Skills to acquire during internship:

  • Permitting and community engagement for renewable energy
  • Teamwork with multi disciplinary team
  • Managing and prioritizing an assortment of task and initiatives
  • Renewable energy project siting and optimization

Intern Learning Achievements:

 

  • Becoming familiar with a growing and increasingly critical combination of solar energy and agriculture on the same land.  This is an ever-evolving topic that our development team needs to be well informed to support and continue engaging our stakeholders with the most recent and relevant information. 
  • Becoming familiar with project life cycle tasks, and the key pillars of project development - land control, interconnection and permitting. 
  • Learning about the issues that come up, both for and against projects, and how to formulate arguments to the community that maintains support for our projects.  Becoming involved in these issues helps to better appreciate and understand the pros and cons of renewable energy siting in communities and how to strategically angle a project to be supported by most community members. 
  • Learning the multitude of tasks that go into project development, and how our teams work together, both with internal stakeholders and external consultants to navigate the development project phase. 
  • Develop knowledge on convergence of government, associations and EDFR business i.e. hone various skills related Public Affairs: public policy development, legislative processes, strategic communications, stakeholder management, corporate brand and reputation management). In addition, knowledge in electricity markets rules, governance and regulatory/implementation issues i.e., you get to learn how governments help or hinder building renewable energy projects. 
  • Assist in updating community engagement templates regularly, website and project one pager reviews and updates, assistance with community/town presentations. Assisting with social media and maintaining pulse on community events and happenings. 
 

Qualifications

Education/Experience:

  • Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's degree in Business, Science, Renewable Energy, Engineering or related discipline.
  • Detail oriented and self-motivated
  • Able to demonstrate an ability to work as part of a team and manage multiple complex tasks simultaneously.
  • Experience working with various Office software applications

Working Conditions:

  • 80% time in office, utilizing computers. Up to 20% potential to participate in some off-site team meetings or public project meetings.

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