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Hanwha Renewables designs, builds and manages renewable energy solutions. The company brings a decade of global leadership in renewable energy to North America, combining best-of-world technology, processes, and partnerships to deliver utility-grade energy solutions customized for local energy markets. Hanwha Renewables offers the full spectrum of energy solutions - from power plant development, design, construction, operations, and maintenance. With proven capabilities across the renewable energy value chain, Hanwha Renewables minimizes uncertainty and risk, and helps customers achieve a higher return on their investment in renewable energy.\nPOSITION OVERVIEW\nLead and perform interconnection planning analysis and economic studies for utility scale solar PV plants and energy storage projects with a special focus on production cost simulations and utility grid capacity assessment. Principal IPE will be responsible for supervising and performing electrical analysis on the utility high voltage transmission system to identify capacity for potential (utility scale solar & storage) projects and handling necessary transmission & interconnection processes of utilities and ISO’s. Hanwha Q Cells is currently active in multiple ISOs and RTOs and vertically integrated markets across the country, with multiple M&A projects at various stages of development. Provide due diligence engineering review, statement, and technical feasibility. Coordinate and manage internal and third-party studies, consulting and independent transmission planning resources during the pre-acquisition leading technical diligence, development activities, and engineering. Principal IPE provides mentorship to junior transmission planning engineers in the team and provides day-to-day guidance for performing interconnection planning viability studies and economic analysis as needed. This role provides necessary technical training for performing loadflow injection studies using TARA and PSS/E software. \nRESPONSIBILITIES\nRoutinely lead and perform powerflow studies (using PowerGem TARA and Siemens PSS/E software) and economic studies (using PROMOD) to assess electric interconnection viability of renewable projects and support Development and Commercial Teams for due diligence studies and efforts before commencing interconnection applications. Identify optimal interconnection locations in target markets based on multiple cross-functional siting criteria.\nPerform detailed technical reviews of interconnection study reports (Feasibility, System Impact, and Facilities) to validate assumptions, identify technical errors, inconsistencies, and optimization opportunities. Collaborate with utilities, ISOs, consultants, and internal stakeholders to resolve study issues, reduce network upgrade costs, shorten project schedules, and improve interconnection outcomes by developing technical questions, comments, and alternative mitigation strategies.\nLead the negotiation of Generator Interconnection Agreement (GIA), amendments, Facility Construction Agreements (FCAs), and other interconnection-related agreements. Coordinate internal reviews with Legal, Engineering, Development, and Commercial teams, and negotiate directly with utilities, ISOs/RTOs, and transmission providers to achieve timely execution while optimizing project cost, schedule, and commercial outcomes.\nEnsure all executed Interconnection Agreements (IAs) remain in good standing through Commercial Operation Date (COD) for assigned projects. Monitor compliance with IA milestones, proactively manage milestone obligations, identify potential risks, and drive resolution of issues that could result in a breach of the agreement or impact on the project schedule.\nRoutinely lead and perform due diligence for M&A projects by reviewing interconnection documents from data room and briefing Development and Commercial team on key findings\nSupport engineering team routinely as a seasoned engineer with technical task assignments for projects under engineering and design phase and attend project meetings (internal and external).\nReview and summarize Curtailment study results for management review and support Finance team on routine assignments with external consultants.\nEvaluate transmission and interconnection tariffs, costs, timelines, queue dynamics, and market processes across multiple markets. Develop interconnection strategies and provide technical guidance to Development and Commercial teams to support project origination, risk assessment, and investment decisions.\nProvide communication and build relationships with utilities/ISOs and track interconnection progress to ensure projects are complete in a timely and cost-effective manner.\nTrack changes to interconnection tariffs and key transmission upgrades in target markets in North America\nCreate regular project interconnection status reports and monitor LGIA milestones.\nWork with Development and Commercial departments to analyze renewable energy projects.\nContribute innovative ideas to enhance interconnection and quality in practices utilized by the Hanwha development department.\nTrain junior level IPEs to perform load flow simulations and analyze electric transmission grid capacity for renewable developments and interconnection\nREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS\nMinimum Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical engineering, Master’s, and/or MBA preferred. PE license is preferred but not required.\nTen (10) years of transmission and interconnection planning experience on renewable projects and at least two years of solar photovoltaic and energy storage utility scale projects.\nDevelopment or transmission planning at a utility, ISO/RTO, or project developer.\nAbility to use proficiently GE PSLF, Siemens PSS/E, PROMOD and AutoCAD software\nDemonstrated ability to work autonomously at a dynamic pace, find creative solutions, and communicate with both a technical and non-technical audience.\nExperience communicating / working with utilities, consulting firms, ISO/RTOs, and regulators\nCandidate must possess experience in successfully executing projects from inception thru development and into engineering while providing strong technical direction/guidance in power engineering background (especially having interconnection Tariff background.)\nSome level of experience in performing due diligence for solar and energy storage assets are preferred.\nCOMPENSATION: $180,000 - $200,000 salary\nAttention external recruitment firms, we will not accept any unsolicited resumes at this time. Please do not contact any internal member of our company to discuss the position or to solicit candidates.\nHanwha Renewables provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. www.174powerglobal.com.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7046,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Energy & Utilities","Energy Storage","Solar Energy"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-05T17:21:40Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 1","filings_12m":1,"filings_prev_12m":0,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":182500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-29T16:27:21+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":42,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.946,"p_room":0.44,"age_days":76,"expected_fill_days":68,"reasons":["conf:4","urgency","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-04T06:34:25Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":200000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/hanwharenewables-principal-planning-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/hanwharenewables-principal-planning-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-04T23:56:04Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":64,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-05T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4012},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4012"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fhanwharenewables-principal-planning-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fhanwharenewables-principal-planning-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fhanwharenewables-principal-planning-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/hanwharenewables-principal-planning-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fhanwharenewables-principal-planning-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":330121}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"hanwharenewables.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":330121},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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