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.

Non-negotiables

• Two Hyderabad days monthly through five-year plan approval.
• Five-business-day response on complete material bid papers.
• Full disclosure of developer, offtaker, lender and supplier relationships.
• No deal fee, vote or authority to bind the enterprise.

1. 49 words maximum. Which renewable portfolio allocation did you change, and what downside scenario altered the decision?
2. 49 words maximum. Identify developer, offtaker, lender, equipment or project interests relevant to this mandate.
3. 49 words maximum. Can you reserve two monthly days and review complete bid papers within five business days?