Head of Power Origination

Job Description

An independent power producer is seeking a commercially sophisticated Head of Origination to lead origination and power marketing across a national portfolio of operating and development-stage wind, solar, and battery storage assets.

This executive will own commercial strategy and execution across both greenfield opportunities and the operating fleet, balancing near-term project contracting with the longer-term optimization of merchant and contracted positions. The mandate includes utility and commercial and industrial offtake, complex PPA restructuring, structured products, repowering, and value creation as market conditions and customer needs evolve.

The role leads a five-person team and works closely with trading, development, finance, regulatory, external affairs, and senior leadership. The ideal candidate combines broad power-market expertise with decisive leadership, disciplined execution, and the creativity to solve complex commercial challenges.

Responsibilities

• Set and execute the enterprise origination and power-marketing strategy across operating assets, greenfield development, and repowering opportunities.
• Lead, coach, and organize a five-person commercial team aligned by regional transmission organization (RTO) market, establishing clear priorities, accountability, and high-quality executive communication.
• Originate, structure, negotiate, and close long-term offtake and related commercial agreements with utilities, commercial and industrial customers, and large-load or data-center counterparties.
• Advance near-term contracting and project-execution priorities for wind, solar, and battery storage assets moving toward notice to proceed, construction, and commercial operation.
• Develop creative strategies to improve the economics of existing assets, including PPA restructuring, blend-and-extend solutions, and other structured products.
• Prepare the portfolio for increasing merchant exposure as legacy PPAs expire, evaluating market timing, risk allocation, pricing, tenor, and retained project attributes.
• Oversee commercial activity across MISO, PJM, SPP, ERCOT, WEEC and other relevant U.S. power markets, translating market developments into actionable portfolio strategy.
• Partner with trading, development, finance and capital markets, regulatory, legal, operations, and key-account teams to align commercial decisions with investment and execution priorities.
• Maintain rigorous opportunity pipelines, RFP responses, decision materials, forecasts, and executive presentations for internal leadership and ownership stakeholders.
• Build trusted relationships with counterparties and market participants while representing the platform with sound judgment, credibility, and a long-term orientation.

Qualifications

• 15-25 years of senior-level origination, power marketing, commercial, or portfolio-management experience within the U.S. power or renewable energy sector.
• Demonstrated success structuring and negotiating PPAs and related commercial products for both contracted and merchant power assets.
• Strong working knowledge of wind, solar, and battery storage technologies and the commercial considerations that shape development, repowering, contracting, and operations; meaningful wind experience is important.
• Deep market knowledge across multiple major RTOs, with particular relevance to MISO, PJM, SPP, and ERCOT.
• Experience serving utility counterparties and a practical understanding of commercial and industrial offtake, including evolving demand from data centers and other large-load customers.
• Track record of leading and developing commercial teams while remaining close enough to the work to drive negotiations and solve difficult portfolio issues directly.
• Executive-level presentation, organization, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to communicate complex commercial judgments clearly.
• Ability to perform in a fast-moving, ownership-driven environment where disciplined execution, adaptability, and value creation are central expectations.

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