US Summer Internship - Energy & Resources - Utilities

About Baringa

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia, Baringa combines global insight with local understanding.

Baringa works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms—spanning strategy, transformation, and operational excellence, powered by advanced technology, data, AI, and digital innovation.

Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly. The firm is known for kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.

Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.

Summer Internship — Energy & Resources, Utilities

What you will be doing

You will join a team of trusted, well-known experts working with clients in the utilities industry. You will collaborate alongside clients to solve pressing challenges related to grid reliability, customer affordability, and decarbonization.

You will support the consulting team and clients on engagements such as:

• Conduct vulnerability studies to forecast the financial impact to transmission and distribution assets from the physical risks of climate change (e.g., flood, wind, heat, wildfires) and develop resilience adaptation plans to mitigate those risks.
• Coordinate development of solar and storage assets in low-income communities to enhance grid reliability and generate cost savings for consumers.
• Support regulators and utilities to improve distributed energy resources integration and quantify the full benefit stack of microgrids and behind-the-meter assets.
• Support asset owners and policymakers to shape the future of the US energy market and the roles of energy networks in enabling and delivering their net zero targets.
• Shape the strategic digital roadmap, leading vendor selection, and the design and delivery of leading network management and grid optimization solutions (e.g., ADMS, DERMS, advanced planning tools, etc.) for transmission and distribution companies.

By the end of the internship, you will gain a strong understanding of the key challenges facing the electricity grid and how utilities operate within their regulatory, technological, and financial context.

What are we looking for

We are looking to hire motivated Summer Interns who are deeply interested in—and curious about—the energy industry, and who want to develop into industry experts. The ideal candidate is passionate about energy and wants to build expertise in this complex industry to help provide answers and solutions during interesting and challenging client engagements.

Are you motivated to help utilities solve complex problems and pursue new strategies and opportunities? If yes, we would like to talk to you.

Examples of what we are looking for:

• Knowledge of current and future energy sector ambitions and challenges, with a passion for the energy transition.
• Experience or knowledge of regulated utilities—ideally electricity/gas networks or system/market operators.
• Experience or knowledge of business and commercial strategy.
• Ability to take ownership and deliver results in challenging, client-facing and internal environments.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with a track record of effective team working.
• Strong analytical skills, including experience with Excel, and the ability to develop innovative business solutions based on effective processes and outcomes focused on business value.

What’s in it for you?

• The opportunity to work at the forefront of the energy industry as part of an award-winning global energy consultancy.
• Engage in strategically important client transformation projects based in the US.
• No barriers and everyone is accessible, from Analysts to Partners.
• The opportunity to build skills in the global clean energy transition while working alongside peers across long-term energy market fundamentals and transaction advisory, transformation of energy networks and retail energy businesses, and climate change advisory services.
• Successful candidates who secure an internship may have the opportunity to join full-time upon graduation.

Requirements

• This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
• Applicants must be in their junior year or going into their last year of college studies.
• Applicants must be eligible to work in the US now and in the future.
• Applicants must demonstrate a good mix of work experience or internships, extra-curricular activities (societies, sports clubs, etc.), and/or volunteering work.

Key information

• Internship dates: Monday 7th June – Friday 30th July 2027
• Application window: Friday 4th September – Monday 21st September 2026 (applications after this date cannot be accepted)
• Paid internship: weekly salary of $1,200
• Location: NEW YORK CITY
• Vacancy type: Full-time

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture, and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and our people.

An award-winning workplace

You can be part of our Great Place to Work, with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.

Using business as a force for good

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis—helping us continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, offering a variety of ways to contribute by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda focuses on giving back by sharing our skills, talent, and time—empowering and encouraging everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and supporting registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.

Join us

All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith, or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.