Senior Power System Engineer - Electricity National Control Centre
National Grid
Total years of experience :18 years, 11 Months
• Ensuring the secure and cost-effective operation of the transmission system, assessing and implementing system outage plans, monitoring the transmission system for incidents and performance and coordinating the Transmission Access Plans
• Supporting the management of real time secure and stable operation for the Great Britain National Electricity Transmission System and Distribution Network connections, and external interconnectors
• Delivering within-day forecasting, generation scheduling, security assessment and supporting the development of short-term strategy and potential pre-fault or post fault actions
• Managing transmission circuit outage deferral or release and returns to service, ensuring the harmonization of the outage plan
• Responsible for the delivery of world class fault management, post fault action dispatch and incident management
• Ensuring quality customer service at the operational interface, minimizing the costs of the balancing system
• Ensuring quality stakeholder liaison and transactions in line with the company customer and stakeholder strategy
• Planning the transmission system, delivering credible transmission outage strategies to the Electricity National Control Centre
• Delivering the production of current year outage plans that meet the business objectives of both the Great Britain System Operator and Transmission Owners, managing the preventive/corrective maintenance and commissioning plans activities
• Undertaking complex system analysis studies to meet the requirements of the National Grid Electricity Transmission Security and Quality of Supply Standards in line with system outages and constraints
• Delivering the implementation of large-scale projects for the company, providing world class customer and stakeholder experience in line with the company strategy
• Managing the department and team's performance through complex Performance Excellence tools and techniques by delivering new processes, procedures, KPIs and work instructions while supporting the training and authorization of team members
Achievements:
o Successfully delivered the implementation of the Electricity Balancing System project and the Ratings Management System within Network Access Planning
o Built and delivered new processes and performance management tools for developing the Year Ahead Planning of transmission system analysis
• Building system studies in DIgSILENT Power Factory and delivering credible transmission outage strategies to the Electricity National Control Centre, managing system constraints and generation levels in a safe and economical manner to meet the requirements of the National Grid Electricity Transmission Security and Quality of Supply Standards
• Assisting in the production of current year outage plans that meet the business objectives of both the Great Britain System Operator and Transmission Owners
• Undertaking system analysis studies daily, delivering daily outage strategies and reports
Achievements:
o Developed a tool for optimizing the study development processes in compliance to the Electricity national Control Centre requirements - OPRALOG feedback and fixes tool
o Leading the Rating Management System implementation for the Study Development Team
o Developing the Performance Excellence implementation in the Study Development processes, creating, assessing and improving Study Development Quality KPIs
• Managing the power generation activities within the company power stations, electrical substations and pumping stations, leading the operations within the hydropower stations and controlling the electrical network under steady state and emergency/fault scenarios
• Leading the operations personnel within the power stations and substations, managing the maintenance and repair teams and the Outage Management System within the company
• Managing the interchange scheduling and accounting control platforms and managing the load/resource balance while consistently monitoring the power network
• Operating the Power Centre Dispatch Model - National Instruments model and operating the real time management system to meet the predicted power and water demands
• Developing and coordinating switching orders and work permits to facilitate access to preventive/corrective maintenance and commissioning outage works
• Ensuring the daily power generation and distribution schedules according to the release requests, being responsible for the continuity in generation performance and customer supply
• Administrate contracts providing power interchange, transmission and ancillary services.
• Developing and delivering accurate reports regarding generation and distribution performance and reliability data
• Taking quick remedial actions for all events to safeguard the public and protect system equipment in breakdown conditions, outages, electrical parameters deviation, floods and other perilous states.
• Developing the daily electricity offers for the production facilities within the subsidiary and implementation in the National Electricity Market
• Preparing and delivering daily generation planning schedules for the balancing mechanism units while managing the daily electricity generation program and bid/offer arrangements
• Managing the release requests and the outage plans for maintenance, modernization and refurbishment works
• Developing strategic planning studies and cost-effective analysis studies for the optimal operation of the hydropower stations
• Planning the implementation of the equipment designs and drawings in the general substation schemes
Achievements:
o Received the Excellency Diploma for “The Most Promising Employee” for the development of a platform for enhancing the informational and operational value between the departments (Operations Process Optimizing project - 2008)
• Developing maintenance and refurbishment work schedules and assisting in the delivery of the daily generation plans for the balancing mechanism units in relation to the predicted power and water demands
• Ensuring the delivery of safe and economical operational plans for the power stations, pumping stations and electrical substations
• Preparing electrical drawings and specifications, three-line schematics and single line diagrams for the power stations and substations
• Conducting turbine/generator/transformer online and offline analysis studies
• Ensuring a safe occupational health environment on the maintenance works.
Achievements:
o Developed a platform for enhancing the operational data management of the Energy Management and Dispatching Department - increased the efficiency for the prognosis activities and decreased the time spent for live energy balances development
• Operating the power station and substation equipment and conducting equipment monitoring and testing
• Developing switching sheets and performing electrical and mechanical switchings under work safety conditions
• Identifying maintenance requirements and production problems basing on data gathered from monitoring systems and reports.
• Monitoring the power generation through the SCADA system liaising with the power dispatcher to ensure optimized production.
Achievements
o Developed a project for decreasing the general services electrical consumption of the power station
o Improved the signaling and internal plant data transmission systems for the power station
• Responsible for design, specification and procurement of material and equipment for the contracted projects
• Prepare technical input for internal project scopes of work, consult scopes of work and ensure technical support of budget documents as required
• Developing and reviewing the documentation and technical specifications for the ongoing and future projects
• Technical specifications and documentation translation for foreign customers
• Responsible for maintaining strong customer and stakeholder relationships for the contracted projects
Master Degree in „Hydropower engineering and technical hydraulics”
Bachelor’s Degree in Power Engineering, degree subject: „Hydropower Stations”