Intern (Longevity Power), London

Longevity Partners is a multidisciplinary energy and sustainability consulting company. Established in 2015 to support the transition to a low carbon economy in the UK and Europe, we are now a global advisory firm with clients in over 40 countries served by offices in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Munich, Milan, New York, Seattle, Austin, and Tokyo.

Our clients are among the world's largest real estate developers, owners, investors, and occupiers spanning all sectors of the commercial property industry. Longevity Partners assists its clients with diverse portfolios with services ranging from ESG strategy development to advising on net zero carbon implementation. At Longevity Partners, we draw on our roots in the UK and Europe to collaborate with clients to navigate a dynamic ecosystem of benchmarks, frameworks, reporting schemes, disclosures, and regulations to determine best practices and mitigate risk. We are uniquely positioned to partner with our clients wherever they are on their ESG journey.

This role will be with Longevity Power, a new subsidiary launched in 2021 to focus on renewable energy-related projects.

Longevity Power

Longevity Power is focused on delivering renewable energy strategies and clean energy solutions in the built environment across Europe. Providing a one-stop-shop on clean energy advisory, Longevity Power is focused on delivering onsite and offsite renewable energy strategies and implementation and EV charging infrastructure deployment.

As a fast-growing sustainability advisory business based in the UK, we are looking to recruit a highly motivated and commercially minded individual to support the growth of our business across Europe and the US.

Your role as an Intern will be to assist the advisory team and work on commercial & industrial-scale renewable energy projects to help our clients understand their potential for renewable energy across their assets and plan for its implementation.

Employment Type: Full-time Internship for an initial period of 6 months.

The Longevity Power Intern About the role:

• Coordinating and understanding a large amount of electricity consumption data.
• Assist with on-site PV feasibility studies to help clients understand the potential for solar PV installations across their portfolios.
• Model the financial and carbon impact of renewable energy projects, providing clients with the key financial metrics to inform their investment decision. This will take into account project CAPEX, OPEX, operations & maintenance costs, high-level, project IRRs, NPVs.
• Market research into the legislative landscape and incentives available for on-site solar PV installations across Europe.
• Data collection of on-site electricity consumption to use in the solar PV system modelling and design.
• Attending site visits to review site-specific constraints and layout for solar PV installations (dependent on covid-19 situation).
• Producing reports and providing advice and guidance to clients and project teams under the supervision of your PM.

About You

If you are currently looking for an internship with a high level of responsibility in a flat and entrepreneurial structure, this is the ideal next step in your career.

Essential Skills and Competencies for the role

• Studying for or just graduated with a university degree, ideally in Environmental Sciences or Engineering, Economics, or other sustainability-related disciplines;
• Relevant knowledge of renewable energy challenges, pros/cons of on-site solar PV installations, and the regulatory environment for renewable energy at the European level (preferable but not mandatory);
• Ability to conduct research tasks, analyse and summarise data;
• Ability to produce structured, concise, and meaningful reports;
• Ability to manage multiple on-going assignments simultaneously;
• Ability to work as part of a team autonomously;
• Excellent analytical skills and mindset;
• Excellent IT skills, including a good knowledge of Excel;
• Diligent, reliable, and proactive;
• A high standard of written and spoken English. Any other European language is a plus.