POSITION DESCRIPTION

The Regulatory Specialist will provide regulatory insight and guidance across ESB’s portfolio of generation assets, the transition to a plan led system for generation and network planning relating to system services and the developing market for green gases, ensuring alignment with ESB’s vision and the evolving policy and market landscape. This role is central to supporting ESB’s strategic ambitions in renewable energy growth across Great Britain, Ireland, and Northern Ireland.
The Regulatory Specialist will work as part of a highly motivated and collaborative regulatory team working across GB and Ireland, and they will be reporting to a Regulation Manager. This specialist role may also require some management responsibility.

• Regulatory Strategy & Engagement Lead regulatory analysis and engagement across Great Britain, Ireland, and Northern Ireland with relevant system operators and lobby groups.
• Monitor and influence policy developments including system services market in Ireland, UK and market development include European network codes.
• Represent ESB in industry forums and working groups, advocating for commercially sound and technically viable regulatory outcomes across Great Britain, Ireland and Northern Ireland.
• Provide regulatory context and understanding of cross market interactions within the system service market design and the related revenue streams that underpin generation investment decisions.
• Translate regulatory and system planning developments from Great Britian into the Single Electricity Market (SEM) context and vice versa, supporting cross-jurisdictional alignment, where appropriate.
• Analyse the commercial consequences of market rule changes, including system services and new market designs on ESB generation assets and development pipeline across Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
• Influence the design of markets to ensure that the rules operate in an internally consistent way across the different facets of the energy markets.