Undergraduate/Graduate (Summer) Intern - Simulation for EV Charging Station Placement

Undergraduate/Graduate (Summer) Intern - Simulation for EV Charging Station Placement

CO - Golden

Intern (Fixed Term)

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From day one at NREL, you'll connect with coworkers driven by the same mission to save the planet. By joining an organization that values a supportive, inclusive, and flexible work environment, you'll have the opportunity to engage through our ten employee resource groups, numerous employee-driven clubs, and learning and professional development classes.

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The Electric Vehicles and Grid Integration team within the Center for Integrated Mobility Sciences researchers how the grid can support rapid vehicle electrification with the least impacts, while improving energy resilience. This involves both site specific analysis, and grid level analysis into different charge management controls. The team conducts both simulated control evaluations and lab testing, as well as field demonstrations.

The EV-Cents project is part of the EVs@Scale Consortium and seeks to determine the benefits managed charging can bring to utilities, and especially to the distribution system. The intern hired under this requisition will work with researchers to develop analysis tools to quantify grid impacts and benefits of different charging control paradigms.

The intern will be responsible for:

• Development of impact metrics to quantify control impacts
• Statistical analysis of co-simulation results
• Geospatial analysis of distribution of impacts
• Writing and presenting a final report on their analysis

This experience will expose the intern to several assets within NREL including the optimization and control lab where control are tested on real equipment, the visualization lab where big data is analyzed more easily and geospatial analysis can be conducted, and the high performance computer for scaled analysis. The intern will also join consortium meetings where results from several national labs and other industry stakeholders are reviewed.

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Minimum of a 3.0 cumulative grade point average.

Undergraduate: Must be enrolled as a full-time student in a bachelor's degree program from an accredited institution.

Post Undergraduate: Earned a bachelor's degree within the past 12 months. Eligible for an internship period of up to one year.

Graduate: Must be enrolled as a full-time student in a master's degree program from an accredited institution.

Post Graduate: Earned a master's degree within the past 12 months. Eligible for an internship period of up to one year.

Graduate + PhD: Completed master's degree and enrolled as PhD student from an accredited institution.

Please Note:

• Applicants are responsible for uploading official or unofficial school transcripts, as part of the application process.

• If selected for position, a letter of recommendation will be required as part of the hiring process.

• Must meet educational requirements prior to employment start date.

• Basic programming skills in any language, ideally demonstrated in a GitHub portfolio or other code repository
• Experience with GIS mapping
• Experience with data processing

• Experience with data analysis
• Familiarity with distribution system metrics
• Familiarity with EV charge acceptance profiles

The anticipated closing window for application submission is up to 30 days and may be extended as needed.

Job Profile: / Annual Salary Range: $43,700 - $69,900

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Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; 403(b) Employee Savings Plan with employer match*; and sick leave (where required by law). NREL employees may be eligible for, but are not guaranteed, performance-, merit-, and achievement- based awards that include a monetary component. Some positions may be eligible for relocation expense reimbursement. Internships projected to be less than 20 hours per week are not eligible for medical, dental, or vision benefits.

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