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Strategic Portfolio Planning Specialist I - Senior

Entergy

Posted 02/23/26

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639 Loyola Ave, New Orleans, LA 70113

Full-Time
Experienced
Energy and Utilities
Hybrid

Job Description

JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE

Provide a range of market and technical analyses to support the Entergy Operating Companies in the formulation of generation portfolio strategies and the evaluation of specific generation supply alternatives and transactions to achieve strategic objectives; Support related corporate investment approval processes and regulatory processes (e.g., certification hearings).

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

Decision Support Analysis
  • Support development of driver-based spreadsheet models to measure market value and customer economics of generation supply alternatives.
  • Conduct analyses (relying on these models as well as specialized software such as production cost models) to assess the economic value and customer benefits of alternative generation resources (i.e., capital investment and contracts).
  • Develop recommendations regarding specific proposed transactions.
  • Support corporate investment approval process relating to generation supply transactions.
Market Analytics
  • Monitor and forecast market conditions in relevant power markets.
  • Forecast power prices (energy and capacity).
  • Monitor market mechanics (e.g., MISO practices and protocols).
  • Assess implications of current and projected market conditions on the Entergy Operating Companies’s generation supply strategies.
  • Support formulation of appropriate supply strategy recommendations.
Regulatory Support
  • Communicate with external stakeholders such as State Commission and staffs regarding generation supply matters including in the context of formal integrated resource planning processes.
  • Support regulatory proceedings (e.g., Certifications) including preparation of filed testimony and responses to discovery requests.
Technical Coordination and Integration
  • Participate with internal and external subject matter experts on efforts to ensure that opportunities relating to alternatives such as demand-side management, distributed generation, non-utility scale renewables, and energy storage are appropriately reflected in generation portfolio plans and strategies.
  • Participate on cross-function efforts with the Transmission Planning Organization to achieve integrated planning solutions that optimally meet planning objectives.
  • Support analyses to assess the trade-offs and synergies between generation and transmission alternatives.

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About Entergy

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Entergy exists to grow a world-class energy business that creates sustainable value for our four stakeholders.

• For our customers, we create value by constantly striving for reasonable costs and providing safe, reliable products and services.

• For our employees, we create value by achieving top-quartile organizational health, providing a safe, rewarding, engaging, diverse and inclusive work environment, fair compensation and benefits, and opportunities to advance their careers. 

• For our communities, we create value through economic development, philanthropy, volunteerism and advocacy, and by operating our business safely and in a socially and environmentally responsible way. 

• For our owners, we create value by aspiring to provide top-quartile returns through the relentless pursuit of opportunities to optimize our business.