Application Deadline: 5:00 PM ET on Tuesday, January 27, 2026

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Job Title: Atkinson Intern, U.S. Power Sector
Program/Department: U.S. Power Sector

Job Description: EDF internships provide high-quality experiences (including relevant projects and opportunities for networking) which create a foundation for anyone who is serious about pursuing an environmental career. 

Program/Department Overview: The U.S. Power Sector Team is a core group focused on advancing the goals of the broader Decarbonizing the US Power Sector Workstream. The team is focused sharply on striving to triple the annual deployment of new clean energy projects, and to increase annual power sector emission reductions to around 12% per year over the next seven years, up from around only 3% per year over the previous 15 years.

The Power Sector team is deploying a range of strategies and tools to help scale up clean electricity generation, which is at the heart of the U.S. Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) target to reduce absolute economy-wide emissions by 50-52% in 2030 compared to 2005 levels. State-level research and advocacy is central to our work, including engagement with utilities and public service commissions to bolster power sector policy that promotes equity and affordability. Simultaneously, the team must navigate the ever-changing political and technological landscape in the U.S., encompassing ramifications from Congress’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), the growing presence of data centers driving load demand projections, and current dialogue over the scalability of emerging clean firm technologies. 

Overall Function: The intern will support the Power Sector team in advancing key projects aimed at achieving near-term greenhouse gas reductions across the U.S. This role includes conducting power sector research and analysis and contributing to advocacy at the state, federal, and corporate levels.

They will provide support by tracking legislation and regulatory proceedings in priority states, attending public service commission (PSC) meetings, taking detailed notes, and helping draft public comments. This work is especially important as utilities respond to growing data center demand with unnecessary fossil-fuel proposals that could increase emissions and costs for ratepayers. The intern will also engage with local environmental organizations to build knowledge of state policy and support efforts to expand renewable energy, particularly in states like Louisiana, where a major data center proposal is under review. They will help interpret outputs from new power-grid modeling for Louisiana and support internal strategy refinement related to California’s carbon credit rulemaking.

Through this work, the intern will gain experience in energy and power sector modeling, electricity markets and utility regulation, grid reliability, emerging technologies, and federal and state climate and energy policy. They will report to the High Meadows Fellow, US Power Sector Policy.