ORIGINATION INTERN

Position

Origination Intern

Location

Bloomington, MN (HQ)

About Us

Geronimo Power develops, owns, and operates large-scale power and affiliated digital infrastructure projects throughout America's Heartland, including solar, wind, energy storage, and powered data parks. As a farmer-founded and community-focused business, Geronimo Power equips landowners and rural communities with sustainable revenue to ignite local economic growth. To learn more about Geronimo Power, visit www.geronimopower.com or follow the company on LinkedIn.

About This Role

Geronimo Power's Origination team is seeking an Origination Intern for Summer 2027. This internship provides hands-on experience supporting the company's business development and commercialization efforts across renewable energy, energy storage, powered data parks, and other emerging market opportunities. The intern will work directly with commercial leaders to help identify, evaluate, and advance new customer opportunities, strategic transactions, and market expansion initiatives. This role offers exposure to renewable energy development, customer acquisition, commercial strategy, project commercialization, utility procurement processes, market analysis, and AI-driven business solutions. The intern will contribute directly to active opportunities while gaining insight into how renewable energy projects are positioned, contracted, financed, and brought to market.

Responsibilities

• Support active business development and commercialization opportunities by preparing analyses, customer materials, presentations, internal briefings, and executive updates.
• Conduct market, customer, utility, and competitive research to identify new opportunities and inform commercial strategy.
• Assist with the commercial and financial evaluation of power purchase agreements (PPAs), build-transfer transactions, project sales, RFP responses, and other strategic growth opportunities.
• Support utility procurement, data center development, and emerging market initiatives through research, analysis, and project coordination activities.
• Help the team expand its use of AI by identifying practical use cases, developing prompts and workflows, organizing knowledge resources, automating recurring tasks, and improving team processes.
• Maintain commercial opportunity, customer, and RFP trackers, including monitoring utility and corporate procurement activity, updating pipeline reports, and maintaining CRM data.
• Prepare meeting materials, document key decisions and action items, and coordinate follow-up activities for internal and external meetings.
• Support due diligence, information gathering, and coordination across Development, Finance, Engineering, Legal, Permitting, M&A, and Executive Leadership teams.
• Assist with preparation of management reports, business cases, and strategic analyses supporting commercial decision-making.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Bring

Required Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Marketing, Engineering, Energy Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and other Microsoft 365 applications.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to synthesize information from multiple sources.
• Self-motivated, intellectually curious, and eager to learn.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest in renewable energy, business development, project commercialization, corporate strategy, or energy markets.
• Coursework or internship experience involving finance, market research, economics, data analysis, or commercial strategy.
• Experience preparing presentations, business cases, or analytical reports.
• Interest in artificial intelligence, process automation, or business technology applications.
• Familiarity with CRM platforms, data visualization tools, or business intelligence solutions.
• Demonstrated leadership through internships, student organizations, research projects, athletics, or extracurricular activities.

What You’ll Get

• Hands-on experience supporting renewable energy business development and commercialization activities.
• Exposure to customer engagement, commercial transactions, market strategy, and project origination.
• Mentorship and professional development opportunities from experienced commercial and renewable energy professionals.
• Networking opportunities with leaders across Development, Finance, Engineering, and Executive Leadership teams.
• Meaningful project work with direct business impact.
• Opportunity to present internship accomplishments to company leadership.

Pay Range: $20.00 - $25.00 per hour. Actual compensation may vary based on education, prior experience, skills, and demonstrated qualifications.

Our Commitment

Geronimo Power is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing workplace where employees feel valued, supported, and energized to do their best work. We believe strong teams and strong communities drive better outcomes.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants.