Senior Data Center Power Procurement Specialist

1 month ago


Denver, Colorado, United States Prologis Full time
Job Title: VP, Data Center Power Procurement

Prologis, Inc. is a global leader in logistics real estate, and we're seeking an ambitious and passionate VP, Data Center Power Procurement to join our team. As a key member of our Global Energy team, you will play a critical role in enabling electric utility power access and energy solutions for our data center developments.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Own electric utility grid planning, operations, interconnections, and substation development costs/timelines across key data center markets.
  • Partner with C-suite and transmission planning & engineering at large electric utilities, negotiate interconnection development costs and timelines, and utility tariffs.
  • Enable a business model across Prologis real-estate to match the grid power access, real estate access, and network fiber access to develop a multi-year pipeline of data center projects.
  • Lead large load interconnection filings to support data center development portfolio, system impact studies, understanding of substation development costs/timelines, and solutions enablement per end customer timelines.
  • Evaluate reliability and economics of onsite temporary power solutions, such as fuel cells, gas turbines, and catalyzers, to enable power and energy access per project timelines.
  • Support data center development projects on Prologis existing building and land bank assets, as well as new sites.
  • Manage permitting process with assistance of internal/external teams.
  • Support Energy team responses to utility RFPs and support origination teams in negotiation of offtake agreements.
  • Perform necessary financial modeling to understand project economics.
  • Manage contractual relationships and coordinate with legal, as needed, to assist with contract negotiations and to resolve programmatic needs/requirements.
  • Follow energy regulatory frameworks and assess the impact of potential technology and regulatory changes on existing portfolio, contracts, and new leads.
  • Steward, interface, and develop strong working relationships with various regional internal and external partners, including external utility consultants, designers, and equipment vendors, to ensure the energy and data center teams expediently and programmatically bring power to our real estate.
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline, such as engineering, applied science, economics, or statistics.
  • Expertise with electric utility grid planning, operations, interconnections, and substation development costs/timelines across key data center markets.
  • Must have experience with data center power access enablement, utility C-suite relationships, and previous experience directly negotiating interconnection agreements with large electric utilities.
  • 10+ years of electric utility experience in transmission planning, substation development/engineering, distribution system planning, interconnection of large load projects.
  • Technical expertise to manage consultants for interconnection filings, understand system impact studies, and discover solutions such as rightsizing of the project, load ramp optimization, and phasing of timelines.
  • Expertise with data center development, knowledge of key markets, demand patterns, etc.
  • Experience with onsite generation solutions, power contract negotiations, energy regulations, or renewable energy generation and battery storage technologies.
  • Substantial power purchase contract negotiation experience.
  • Strong understanding of electricity market design, federal and state regulatory rules, and incentives around energy storage, tariff structures, renewable energy, and renewable incentives.
  • Strong understanding of Independent System Operator (ISO) setup, operations, and wholesale markets.
  • Proven ability to evaluate new energy markets, utility tariffs, policies, power contracts, or evaluating new energy opportunities and technologies.
  • Understanding of the interplay between system design, cost, project economics, financed pricing, and ability to run and use financial models for data center development.
  • Familiarity with renewable credit programs, renewable project development, power forecasting and scheduling, portfolio management theory, energy storage, or alternative energy resources.
  • Experience building relationships and working with industry stakeholders, such as utilities, regional power planning agencies, renewable project developers, project investors, and renewable OEMs.
  • Demonstrated ability to innovate, get creative, and drive the business terms & schedule to expediently develop executable projects.
  • A history of collaboration, problem-solving, and communication that drives overall team success.
  • Able to travel up to 40% of the time.
Compensation:

Hiring Salary Range of: $185,000 - $254,000. Salary and whole compensation package (bonus target & LTI) to be determined by the candidate's location, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Prologis is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religions, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.



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