Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting Technical Lead

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Job Title: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting Technical Lead Location: EI - Canada Home Office Job Summary and Description: The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting Technical Lead will join a long-standing EPRI research team focused on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounting, market-based mitigation instruments (e.g., GHG emissions offsets, RECs), and corporate procurement of low-carbon electricity. Working within the broader Energy Systems and Climate Analysis (ESCA) group, the successful applicant will collaborate with key technical staff to explore, understand, evaluate, and articulate existing GHG emissions accounting standards and guidance, GHG emissions offset programs and protocols, other market-based mitigation approaches (e.g., scope 3 “insets” and RECs), and approaches to corporate procurement of low-carbon electricity resources (e.g., 24/7 carbon-free energy, clean energy power purchase agreements, etc.). An ideal applicant understands existing GHG emissions accounting protocols and standards and is familiar with the unique issues and complexities associated with applying these standards to the electricity, and broader energy, sectors. They also have a desire to examin...