Board Energy Transition Adviser — Renewable Power Portfolio

The mandate

The investment committee repeatedly confronts whether to keep optimising contracted wind and solar or accept greater development and merchant risk in storage-led products. Project cases use different assumptions, preventing a portfolio-level view of downside and optionality.

Two days a month include portfolio challenge and Investment Committee attendance. A bid or acquisition paper receives acknowledgement within forty-eight hours and a written perspective within five business days.

The ten-month mandate concludes with board approval of the five-year allocation. A two-month renewal may be decided by the chair; the adviser has no line authority, bidding mandate, investment vote or executive responsibility.

Three concurrent non-competing roles are permissible. Engagements with another Indian developer, major offtaker, lender, equipment supplier or transaction counterparty must be disclosed, and deal-success compensation is barred.

Why the board wants this voice

Development teams understand individual projects, while finance compares returns using incomplete risk symmetry. The board lacks a veteran who has managed a portfolio through curtailment, resource variance and changing market design. It wants disciplined challenge before strategic concentration increases.

What you will own

• Test portfolio scenarios for resource correlation, curtailment, transmission and counterparty concentration.
• Challenge storage cases on degradation, cycling, augmentation and revenue-stack uncertainty.
• Press sponsors to distinguish contracted value from merchant assumptions and strategic option value.
• Shape hurdle-rate adjustments for development stage, technology and offtaker quality.
• Examine whether bid volume exceeds delivery, financing or interconnection capacity.
• Guide the committee on concentration limits by state, customer and equipment platform.
• Advise when optionality merits a small staged commitment rather than full project capital.

Candidate qualifications

• 22–28 years in renewable development, power markets, investment or operations leadership.
• Direct portfolio accountability across wind, solar and storage or hybrid assets.
• Evidence of changing capital allocation after downside scenario analysis.
• Knowledge of Indian power contracting, transmission, curtailment and merchant-market exposure.
• Board investment-committee experience across bids, acquisitions and development pipelines.
• No contingent interest in projects, lenders, suppliers or counterparties under review.