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FLD-2026-014RUNNINGEnergy Systems
Storage Dispatch Optimisation Pilot
Hosted by Prairie Grid Cooperative · Rural Midwest, USA (field)
The brief
Prairie Grid's first grid-scale storage installation is dispatched on a simple fixed schedule. You will build a dispatch optimisation model against real tariff and load data, deploy it to a shadow-mode pilot, and report avoided cost against the existing schedule.
What you'll need
- Coursework in energy systems or optimisation
- Comfortable with utility-scale infrastructure site visits
What you'll walk away with
- A measured avoided-cost result from a live grid pilot
- Direct utility operations experience
- Mode
- In the field
- Duration
- 10 weeks
- Seats
- 2
- Stipend
- $5,000
- Starts
- Jul 23, 2026
- Supervisor
- Robert Ashworth
This deployment is not currently accepting applications.