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Development Engineer solar PV

November 16, 2023 | Comments Off on Development Engineer solar PV

Development Engineer solar PV

Location within Italy is flexible

Competitive salary according to experience

Renewco Power are looking for a Development Engineer to join their Italian team. This will be someone who has spent time in development of PV projects at early stage in Italy, but who understands the whole cycle of a project. This is a position that supports our Italian development team and is key to our ability to move through projects effectively. If you are looking for a new and challenging role, then we want to hear from you. You will have an engineering degree and understand the processes in Italy for all early-stage development milestones, which is why we are looking for someone who has the PV engineering background, but who has experience in the early stage development. This role has career progression possibilities as we grow our pipeline, this role can move further into development and line manage their replacement.

Key responsibilities:

  • Conducting preliminary feasibility and constraints analysis
  • Supporting development and early-stage projects with conceptual designs
  • Performing technical feasibility assessment of solar PV plants and electrical interconnection infrastructures (HVOL and substations).
  • Designing all aspects of solar PV projects regarding:
    • Resource Assessment.
    • Layout tradeoffs.
    • Agrivoltaic plants in accordance with MITE guidelines.
    • Civil works.
    • Electrical infrastructures: internal electrical lines, MV/HV OL and UL and MV/HV Substations.
    • Plot List (Piano particellare) and expropriation.
  • Producing all technical documentation, except environmental impact assessment, to be submitted for solar PV Plant Sole Authorisation, Grid Connection, Construction and entering into service.
  • Liaise with internal experts and external consultants supporting the project design and technical due diligence.
  • Producing technical drawings with the details of the land affected for surface right or acquisition contracts.
  • Carrying out Due Diligence for PV projects, focusing on energy assessment, design, feasibility, and engineering issues.
  • Analyse sites focusing on engineering issues, including visits to the sites, to design and build a PV plant.

About you - you will need to have:

  • Excellent knowledge of local planning and permitting considerations of solar projects, including familiarity with regulations
  • Preferably MSc in Electrical Engineering degree
  • Experience in preparation of and follow up on Sole Authorization processes of PV plants in accordance with Regional and/or National regulations and execute projects and PV plants
  • Experience in preparation of and follow up on technical documentation for grid access and connection requests
  • Advanced knowledge of MS Office and QGIS
  • Experience in solar PV projects development and planning
  • Team player
  • Fluent Italian and English
  • Strong communication skills
  • Ability to travel in Italy and oversees when required

About Renewco Power

Renewco Power is a renewable power development business established in 2021 and backed by Corran Capital with £48M upfront cornerstone funding from SSE Plc. Our focus is on developing utility scale solar PV, onshore wind, BESS and green hydrogen projects across 4 markets: UK, US, Spain and Italy. Our goals are to continue building a leading renewable development platform and to develop ~4GW of ready-to-build projects across these technologies within 5 years.

Renewco's founders are a highly experienced and entrepreneurial group with over 100 years of combined renewables development and investment experience, having successfully developed more than 10GW+ of renewables in over 50 countries, raising more than £2 billion to finance these assets in the process. In 18 months since starting up Renewco, we have raised £48m in funding, established a strong, diverse team of 26 energy professionals with a common purpose, set-up companies in our 4 target markets and created a project development pipeline of 3GW.

We believe our experienced team, strategy to build strong local teams and a partnership approach to business coupled with our flexible mandate, can enable Renewco to originate and develop high-quality development projects and make a significant contribution to the energy transition that the world needs.

Please apply with a CV in English.

By applying for this role, your details will be sent to Ortolan People, who are engaged to provide recruitment support in processing applications. We will endeavour to respond to all applicants within three working days. Occasionally for roles with a very high volume of applicants, this may not be possible.

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