Freelance Writer – Part-Time

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🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

⏱ Part Time

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✏️ Content Writer

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PowerLines

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2024

⚡ Energy

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Energy • Non-profit • Social Impact

PowerLines is dedicated to modernizing the utility regulatory system in the United States to promote affordable, reliable, and clean energy for consumers. With a focus on the roles of state public utilities commissions, PowerLines aims to enhance consumer protection, improve service quality, and advance economic development within the energy sector. Their approach encompasses people, policy, and process to reshape the energy landscape and advocate for effective utility regulation.

📋 Description

• Draft clear, engaging documents on utility regulation, electricity rates, grid modernization, utility spending, rate cases, transmission, data centers, and related issues for different audiences including policymakers, media, and consumers. • Support the drafting and editing of PowerLines’ reports and other major publications. • Review and synthesize PUC filings, commission orders, reports, testimony, and policy documents. • Write blog posts, fact sheets, policy briefs, newsletters, reporter resources, op-eds, and other public-facing materials. • Help develop resources for reporters covering utility regulation and energy affordability. • Collaborate with policy, research, and communications staff to incorporate feedback and refine materials. • Adapt tone and format for different audiences, including policymakers, journalists, advocates, and general readers. • Meet agreed-upon deadlines for short- and medium-form assignments while maintaining quality and consistent communication.

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated experience writing about utility regulation, energy policy, electricity markets, consumer protection, public finance, infrastructure, policy, or related topics. • Familiarity with state public utility commissions and the role they play in approving utility rates, investments, and planning decisions. • Ability to read and interpret regulatory filings, commission orders, reports, testimony, and other policy documents. • Ability to explain complicated policy or regulatory concepts in clear, accessible language. • Strong research, fact-checking, and source-synthesis skills. • Excellent writing, editing, organizational, and communication skills. • Comfort working independently on deadline. • Ability to adapt to evolving priorities and shifting deadlines in a fast-paced environment. • Collaborative mindset and ability to work well with policy experts, researchers, communicators, and non-specialist audiences. • Strong judgment, problem-solving skills, and ability to identify what matters in complex regulatory developments. • Experience as a journalist covering energy, utilities, state government, regulation or business. • Experience writing for policy, advocacy, nonprofit, or research organizations. • Familiarity with rate cases, integrated resource planning, transmission planning, utility business models, FERC, RTOs/ISOs, or consumer advocate offices. • Ability to identify what is newsworthy or politically salient in complex regulatory developments. • Experience writing both short-form and long-form content.