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Development Intern New Projects Summer 2025

Scout Clean Energy

Scout Clean Energy

Boulder, CO, USA
Posted on Oct 29, 2024

You may be a fit for this role if this sounds like you:

This position provides exposure to many aspects of renewable energy development. and is suited for someone looking to get a foot in the door of the renewable energy industry. It requires a high capacity for work, a desire to help others succeed, and a facility with multiple technology platforms.

Position Description

The New Projects Development Internship gives direct exposure to renewable energy development, and it provides an introduction to the roles and responsibilities of Project Managers. As a Development Intern, you will assist Project Managers in project development support roles as requested.

Examples of some of the tasks you might assist in include the following:

  • Evaluate new prospective project areas for a variety of parameters, creating project business plans and justification for pursuit of selected regions.
  • Analyze and compare a number of project sites utilizing Scout’s proprietary GIS software platform
  • Discover and evaluate economic drivers of a project including, scheduling, budgets, energy market trends, and project finance
  • Learn key aspects of project management, stakeholder relationships, real estate, and GIS.
  • Gain exposure to contract management, permitting, interconnection process, environmental studies, and engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) as it applies to projects
  • Conduct competitor research to support the development of renewable energy facilities.
  • Analyze interconnection queues and document findings in various deliverables.
  • Plan and coordinate landowner events and community outreach.
  • Execute GIS requests.
  • Help maintain and manage projects file infrastructure.
  • Coordinate with our Project Managers, Engineering, Interconnection, and other teams to provide workflow updates and address any issues.


As an intern you will build relationships with Scout team members and integrate their feedback into your approach to achieve superior results. Also, you will be given the opportunity to demonstrate initiative, exhibit genuine intellectual curiosity, and self-directed learning, and be considered for advancement within the organization

Across all of these duties, we will look to you to improve the processes used to complete them. During this stage of critical company growth, you will help identify ways to further enhance team efficiency. These improvements may be driven from your past experiences, your ability to connect with and solicit input from our team members, from research you do, and any other sources of inspiration.