Principal Transmission Planning Engineer - Excel Energy
(2025-10)
The main responsibility is ensuring the stable and reliable operation of the Excel Energy electrical network.
- Direct and perform complex power flow, transient/dynamic stability, voltage, and short-circuit assessments.
- Develop, validate, and troubleshoot highly detailed transmission network models using advanced transmission planning software.
- Evaluate system capacity, anticipate load growth, and design strategic infrastructure upgrades to optimize grid reliability and efficiency.
- Ensure adherence to industry standards and support state regulatory filings.
- Lead multiple simultaneous projects, oversee junior staff workflow, and act as the primary liaison between internal teams and external stakeholders
Lead Stability Engineer (Interconnection Planning Analysis) - PJM Interconnection
(2023-06 - 2025-10)
The main responsibility was ensuring the stable and reliable operation of the PJM electrical grid when new generation sources were connected.
- Perform Dynamic Stability Studies to evaluate the impact of new generation interconnection requests on the dynamic stability of the power system. This involves using specialized power system modeling tools like PSS/E and PSCAD.
- Conduct Dynamic Stability Studies to assess the grid's ability to handle new generation, ensuring compliance with reliability standards and planning principles.
- Generate, analyze and interpret Interconnection Study Results to provide technical insights and recommendations.
- Lead Interconnection Analyses by guiding interconnection projects through the PJM queue process.
- Develop and maintain accurate transmission system models required for various planning activities, including those related to interconnection requests and system retirements.
- Develop Dynamic Models for new generation sources (especially renewables like solar and battery storage) that accurately represent their dynamic behavior in stability studies.
- Verify and validate models to ensure they comply with PJM's dynamic model development guidelines and accurately represent the interconnected projects.
- Evaluate customer requests and system analyses to ensure compliance with NERC standards, FERC directives, and PJM and transmission owner planning principles.
- Evaluate the overall system's ability to meet future demands and maintain reliability.
- Assess and recommend necessary transmission system upgrades to address reliability and operational challenges associated with new interconnections.
- Work closely with transmission owners, project developers, consultants, and other entities to facilitate smooth interconnections.
- Provide technical information and recommendations to stakeholders and management regarding new connections and system reinforcements.
- Manage and track the progress of interconnection studies and applications.
- Review technical documentation, interconnection applications, and engineering designs.
- Provide guidance and training to junior staff on topics such as transient stability analysis and power system modeling.
Transmission and Interconnection Manager - EDP Renewables North America
(2019-08 - 2023-06)
- Evaluation of current and planned transmission systems to estimate available transmission capacity for projects and make recommendations to the regional development teams.
- Track transmission developments in regulated and organized markets in order to advise regional teams in the handling of all transmission & interconnection related issues.
- Provide advice and support to origination and market operations departments.
- Manage & monitor interconnection process for wind and solar projects
- Provide analyses of congestion and basis risks for potential and existing projects with a long-term view while tracking the regional transmission planning and development.
- Manage and support the full interconnection securing process across all Transmission Processes to secure least cost reliable LGIAs, from initial interconnection queue request to final execution of the large generator interconnection agreement (LGIA), and the transition of LGIA to construction and operation in accordance with deadlines.
- Develop strategies to select new project sites and evaluate opportunities with transmission-related work to ensure each project has sufficient transmission availability for project competitiveness.
- Provide expertise and analytical support on transmission and interconnection issues
- Provide technical and competitive insight throughout development, interconnection, and operation phases of projects.
- Represent EDPR's interests in regional forums, ISOs, RTOs etc. as needed.
- Establish relationship with RTOs, ISOs, and utilities during interconnection process to achieve reliable and least cost interconnection and LGIA.
- Lead internal and external teams' analyses of transmission load flow and Location Marginal Price (LMP) and the modeling of ISO systems in order to determine their impact on EDPR NA's portfolio.
- Propose hedging solutions to ultimately reduce energy price differential between different locations within an energy market.
- Work with Market Operations to ensure that a complete understanding of transmission and market-related risks are included in the FTR and hedging strategies.
- Provide assessment of grid interconnection to support Origination and M&A activities, such as LMP, congestion risk, curtailment risks, basis risks.
- Analyze, forecast, and provide guidance regarding Financial Transmission Rights (FTRs), forward prices, transmission congestion, curtailments, and LMP basis price spread.
- Serve as transmission and market design expert by tracking changes, performing research regarding interconnection and transmission policies including FERC record searches, and reviewing key topics and research and review of market rules or processes.
- Conduct Injection capacity and network upgrade risk analyses including Steady state, Short circuit, and stability analyses
- Carry out additional duties as assigned.
Consulting Engineer, Transmission Planning - Ameren - Saint Louis, MO
(2016-06 - 2019-07)
- Guide Planning Engineers carry out network planning functions
- Serve as subject matter expert for transmission issues, engineering information, reporting, and modeling.
- Being technical lead for advanced and senior level transmission projects.
- Carry out power flow analysis studies for Ameren using PTI PSSE
- Carry out stability analysis studies
