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> Data is reported for five energy sectors: Electric Power Generation; Transmission, Distribution, and Storage; Fuels; Energy Efficiency; and Motor Vehicles and

• thrwayaistartup 3y ago
  There are a ton of software development jobs in those sectors! Especially if you include all the "software" jobs that are less like the sort of programming at a typical software shop and more like "Math/CS/Eng PhDs writing MATLAB code". I think we will see that transition throughout the economy, actually: software will continue to be very important, but the marginal value add of someone writing software will depend on their having deep domain expertise.
  • throwawayai2 3y ago
    I'm interested in moving into this sector. Do you have any resources/companies/etc to share?
    • 7thaccount 3y ago
      Sure. National Labs (NREL, Argonne, Sandia...etc) EPRI is a big one that sits between industry and academia and hires plenty of both to act as an R&D hub for industry. The large RTO/ISOs (CAISO, ERCOT, SPP, MISO, PJM, ISO-NE, NYISO) run large regions of the grid and work to maintain the reliable operation of the grid, optimize the use of hundreds of generators every 5 minutes in automatic competitive auctions, and plan certain upgrades like transmission. Consulting firms (too many to count) like EPE typically run simulations for anyone who needs it done Software Vendors (GE, Siemens, Hitachi, Energy Exemplar...etc) Utilities that are members of the RTO/ISOs (or independent as in the South east) Renewables developers (Nextera, EDF, ENEL...etc) that try to get renewables built and then participate in the RTO/ISO markets. This is just a section of the power industry as well. Good paying jobs, but a fair amount of red tape too depending on where you go. From a software perspective there's a lot of IT Enterprise work, a lot of programming that engineers do typically involves calling the APIs of commercial software and trying to analyze the resulting data. R&D work typically involves building prototypes. Enterprise software is typically Java, SQL, C#, JavaScript, or C++ depending on what it is. The engineer stuff is mostly in Python. R&D work is typically Python or Matlab. Can you be more specific as to your background and skills?
      • throwawayai2 3y ago
        Thanks this is a good place for me to start digging into. I have BS/MS in CS/HCI, but I've been working as a product designer for nearly a decade now. I'm planning on moving back towards the engineering side of things though and energy is one industry I'm interested in.
        • 7thaccount 3y ago
          Plenty of places will take a comp sci degree. Just start anywhere and get some experience and then figure out where you want to go.
• passwordoops 3y ago
  There's a load of software needed, but it's really not sexy, or it requires relatively esoteric languages like MATLAB. I know of at least one ubiquitous system, PSCAD for simulations, that still relies on Fortran
  • datavirtue 3y ago
    And? What are you trying to say? Banking software IS sexy?
• bdcravens 3y ago
  Each of those sectors has a variety of support roles: accounting, HR, software, janitorial, etc, in addition to primary operations.