Nicole is an Energy Portfolio Analyst with a focus on middle and back-office market operations and compliance reporting. Nicole is responsible for the day-to-day analysis and assessment of CAISO settlement validation, reconciliation, and processing for ZGlobal’s generation and LSE clients. Nicole has two years of experience in operating the ZGlobal Day-Ahead scheduling desk which involves tasks including scheduling and bidding of ZGlobal clients’ resources, loads, imports, exports into CAISO and within western interconnections and ERCOT markets totaling about 13 GW, ensuring that all prerequisites for Resource Adequacy (RA) are satisfied, managing power supply and demand, ensuring that resources are compliant with CAISO telemetry and control requirements and monitoring energy markets.
As an Energy Portfolio Analyst, Nicole is responsible for the following tasks:
- Ensuring that operational and market aspects are included in long-term power purchase and scheduling agreements.
- Assisting in developing strategies for assets RA management.
- Submitting RA plans and schedule resources consistent with RA requirements.
- Ensuring that generation resources establish Net Qualifying Capacity (NQC) consistent with interconnection agreements.
- Acquiring Maximum Import Capability (MIC)
- Shadow settlements.
- Daily revenue estimate reporting and monitoring.
- Daily/weekly settlement verification and reconciliation with expected market transactions.
- Reconciliation with metered energy.
- Statement validation and disputes.
- Cost allocation.
- Weekly invoice processing with CAISO.
- WREGIS Renewable Energy Credit accounting.
- CARB GreenHouse Gas reporting.
- FERC EQR reporting.
- EIA reporting.
- Bilateral OATT transactions across WECC.