Scope of Position:
Job Description – Ontario Internship
Tasks
- Supporting Agrivoltaics: Researching agrivoltaic practices, attending webinars, providing written summaries of materials and supporting preparation of power point presentations and other external communications.
- Supporting Community Engagement: Preparing articles and responding to comments; providing research and drafting responses for questions and concerns that come from the community, for both solar and wind projects, preparing presentations for internal and external meetings.
- Various Project development tasks, including helping with permitting, land control, project management tasks.
Intern Learning Achievements:
- Becoming familiar with a growing and increasingly critical combination of solar energy and agriculture on the same land. This is an ever-evolving topic that our development team needs to be well informed to support and continue engaging our stakeholders with the most recent and relevant information.
- Learning about the issues that come up, both for and against projects, and how to formulate arguments to the community that maintains support for our projects. Becoming involved in these issues helps to better appreciate and understand the pros and cons of renewable energy siting in communities and how to strategically angle a project to be supported by most community members.
- Learning the multitude of tasks that go into project development, and how our teams work together, both with internal stakeholders and external consultants to navigate the development project phase.
Qualifications:
About the Company:
EDF Renewables North America