Business Strategy Intern - Remote, US

Are you passionate about pilot projects? Are you adaptable and athrill about project databases, researching implementation strategies, and capturing industry experts' best practices? The Business Strategy Intern position may be for you!

In this full-time position (30-40 hrs/week), your deliverables will directly impact the current zonal electrification pilot, which is a decarbonization strategy to fully electrify homes and commercial buildings within target neighborhoods or "zones". You will provide support by creating a database of relevant zonal projects around the country and researching their strategies and outcomes. You'll use your perspective to identify and then communicate the research findings that can be incorporated into our current strategy. Throughout the project you will be interfacing directly with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and industry professionals across both Energy Solutions and partner organizations. The zonal electrification research you do will be a major support to the team and a great opportunity to deep-dive into the needs of this pilot program.

You'll take it a step further by supporting the CalNEXT CHPWH Distribution System Focused Pilot. Specifically, you will support the development of contractor-facing best practices guides and conduct focus groups to understand future guide implementation strategies. You'll play an essential support role by taking notes at meetings, thinking critically about how our end deliverables should look, and collaborating with the team to make this vision a reality. This position will put you at the center of cross-collaboration with multiple teams across the company.

This experience will grant you:

• Insight into zonal electrification and developing contractor-facing training materials.
• The opportunity to not only inform the current pilot team's strategy but also help the Greenworks team determine what future opportunities to pursue going forward.
• Experience in and exposure to how industry professionals use research, communication, project management, and time management skills.

You will also gain or deepen:

• Direct, hands-on industry and professional experience and a network to match.
• Research, communication, project management, time management, and Excel skills.

To enable your success, we are seeking candidates with these qualifications:

• Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience gathering, tracking, and sorting data.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with a variety of teams.
• Data Analysis skill or knowledge of the Energy Efficiency industry a plus.

Compensation:

• Undergraduate student: $21/hr.
• Graduate student: $24/hr.

• Currently enrolled full- or part-time in an undergraduate program as a second to fourth-year student or enrolled in a graduate program.
  
  
  
  • Please note we are unable to accept applications from first-year undergraduate students or recent graduates who are not enrolled in a program.
  
  
  
  
• A US Citizen or permanent resident.
  
  
  
  • Please note we are unable to host international students including those with or without visa sponsorship.
  
  
  
  
• Available to meet your weekly hours requirement between May and August 2026.
• Motivated by Energy Solutions' mission to reduce carbon emissions with an equity lens.

You may apply to up to 2 positions per cycle.

• Your updated resume/CV.
• 2 short essays that meets the criteria below.
• A work sample that meets the criteria below.

• Be original documents written by you. We will not accept work written by or with the assistance of ChatGPT or other AI/chatbot programs. Any application submitted with material written by or with ChatGPT or other AI/chatbot programs will be disqualified from consideration.
• Be between 250 and 500 words each.
• Answer the following prompts:
  
  
  
  1. Describe how you have overcome adversity and applied the lessons learned to your academic, professional, or personal life.
  2. Describe how the internship you apply for will enhance or help launch your career in an energy related industry.
  
  
  
  

• Be an original document written by you. We will not accept work written by or with the assistance of ChatGPT or other AI/chatbot programs. Any application submitted with material written by or with ChatGPT or other AI/chatbot programs will be disqualified from consideration.
  
  
  
  • You are permitted to submit an excerpt from a larger document, including a document you wrote in collaboration with others. If you submit an excerpt from a group project, please indicate which sections were written by you.
  
  
  
  
• Be between 1 and 3 pages long, single or double spaced, not including sources. You may submit a document longer than 3 pages but we will not read past the 3rd page.
• Demonstrate your ability to communicate your thinking about an idea.This is vague by design; anything that you wrote-whether for a class, a job, or for personal reasons-and are proud of will probably suffice.
• Focus on a topic important to you. The topic does not have to be related to the internship you are applying for, but if it is, all the better.

We will not accept late applications or make exceptions regarding the criteria.We reserve the right to close our applications before the deadline.

Please reach out tointernships@energy-solution.comwith anyquestions. Applications sent in via emailorpast the deadline will not be accepted.

Final decisions will go out in April 2026. We will not host a Fall 2026 cohort.