Lance Cunningham Email & Phone Number

Johnson City, Texas, Us

Responsible for implementing strategic resource planning as directed by the Board of Directors and the VP, Power Supply.

Responsible for organizational start-up, design and implementation of the Qualified Scheduling Entity (ERCOT level 4 QSE) within Denton Municipal Electric. The task included building a business within a business, inclusive of developing job descriptions and hiring staff, developing processes and procedures to align with ERCOT Protocols, developing RFPs and implementation of procured software for forward market modeling, Real Time and Day Ahead Market operations (generation dispatch, energy management operations, wholesale energy market analysis, energy risk management, fuel procurement and energy supply and sales), providing 24-hour operations, managerial oversight of all energy management (trading) activities, developing O&M and capital budgets. Provided guidance and presentations to the Denton’s City Council, Public Utilities Board, and City Manager’s Office for the organization and delivered $13.5 million in savings to DME customers for 2015. Similar savings have been realized for 2016.Currently one of four ERCOT TAC Municipal segment members.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Other positions held: Manager, Commercial Optimization; Manager, Commercial Strategy; Manager, Fundamental AnalysisResponsible for CRR P&L and daily PTP generation unit hedging. Led a small team of power modeling professionals that returned approximately $10 million/year in revenue during the three-year period 2010-2012. Made recommendations to rebalance company congestion exposure and portfolio. Responsible for Zonal TCR valuation. Provide managerial and thought leadership in Luminant’s non-regulated company. Responsible for MCPE clearing analysis. Developed and supervised daily informational publications for the real-time desk. Responsible for automation of in-house market and dispatch models. Developed and maintained daily trading congestion model. Developed a fleet redispatch model to value the cost of wind variability, resulting in a potential $7 million savings. Developed zonal congestion report. Responsible for development and monthly production of retail adder local congestion forecast used in retail pricing. Assisted in thought leadership for UPLAN OOM categorization post-processing tool. Implementation responsibility of UPLAN power model, same model used by ERCOT planning staff.. Consultant to traders for transmission related issues. Consultant to Regulatory for Nodal Market redesign LMP and CRR related issues. Proficient with UPLAN, Power World, and VBA coding. Responsible for analysis of ERCOT transmission grid cost reduction opportunities, such as RMR, plant closing and purchasing opportunities. Knowledgeable of proposed ERCOT market power analysis. Co-authored Zonal CSC zone definition process and Nodal ECI/CCT tests.

ERCOT market design and ROS representative. Co-designed fundamental generation models to project hourly prices with and without transmission integration. Analyzed ERCOT transmission grid for trading opportunities. Co-designed and used automation of Power World visual power flow software for transmission analysis and projecting congestion. Provided consulting for fundamental modeling. Consultant to traders for transmission related issues.

Austin, Texas, Us

Senior Business Process ConsultantDesigned and co-led implementation of AE’s initial performance measurement system. Co-designed and co-led development of initial corporate strategic planning model. Team leader for annual competitive analysis and benchmarking. Co-led distribution process reengineering team. Project Manager for Power Generation reengineering team, estimated annual savings $3,000,000. Implemented visual load flow and optimal power flow software to analyze ERCOT generation market. Operations Performance and Reengineering CoordinatorAssistant and advisor to the Chief Operating Officer on performance and competitive assessment/analysis issues. Modeled and performed cost allocation for all business unit costs to separate the AE’s integrated utility into a Generating company, a Transmission company and a Distribution company in preparation for market restructuring, if it had been required.Generation Plant Engineer, Holly Power Plant (Interim plant manager)Implemented and supervised on-site project management for major plant projects, unit outages, oil spill remediation, etc. Provided on-site engineering to accomplish electrical and mechanical projects. Interfaced with generation engineering on capital improvement projects. Supervised engineering support and water chemistry groups. As plant engineer supervised 24 employees, as plant manager supervised 112 employees. Generation Project EngineerResponsible for the design of new or upgraded plant electrical and mechanical equipment at both Holly and Decker power plants. Calculated and refined unit capability curves for all six of AE’s generating units.

System Planning EngineerPerformed transmission system studies utilizing Power Systems Simulator - Electric (PSS\E) software. Performed economic analysis of the worth of water for CPL’s Eagle Pass hydro plant for contract negotiations. Performed Corpus Christi load flow analysis to electrically connect two separate 69 KV loops.Substation Project EngineerResponsible for the design of electrical substations. Tasks included the design of concrete foundations, steel supporting structures, high side and low side busses, breakers, regulators, breaker wiring, relaying, requisitioning materials for construction, and project planning. Distribution Design EngineerDesigned overhead and underground distribution facilities, including acceptable voltage level analysis, transformer sizing and capacitor placement analysis, balanced and unbalanced line conditions, including fault calculations and voltage drops from large motor start ups. Distribution load flows using ‘CADPAW’ software.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering

B.S., Electrical Engineering