Nathan Smith Email & Phone Number

Knightdale, Nc, Us

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Dispatch generation units in PJM or Duke Energy Carolina, based on operational instruction from each balancing authority.• Dispatch behind-the-meter diesel units, based on economics, peak-hour load control, or by request from local cooperatives to serve load during maintenance operations.• Optimize dynamic resources hourly, based on economics, to serve load most efficiently for clients.• Communicate frequently with gas-traders to acquire gas for plant dispatches and testing needs.• In constant communication with counterparties to buy or sell power, hourly, based on economics and client needs.• Experience purchasing transmission and tagging power transactions between multiple balancing authorities.• In constant communication with day-ahead traders and balancing authorities to schedule unit maintenance outages in outage scheduler webpages and market offering webpages.• Coordinate real-time outages with plant operators and generation dispatchers at appropriate balancing authorities.• Coordinate load control events with team members and clients.• Schedule both day-ahead and real-time outages for solar sites in PJM.• Adjust unit min/max limits in PJM Markets Gateway, based on values received from plant operators during dispatch.• Schedule day-ahead demand bids into the PJM market for multiple clients.• Schedule day-ahead generation offers into the PJM market for multiple clients, via ExSchedule and Markets Gateway.• Participate in power transactions in the SEEM market.

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

• Scheduled wholesale electricity demand bids for manufacturing facilities with multiple ISOs daily.• Scheduled electricity offers for power generators with multiple ISOs daily.• Verified others’ bid/offer submissions for the Day-Ahead market• Monitored market prices in ERCOT and advised behind-the-meter client to generate extra power when prices were high.• Dispatched load curtailment as a part of ISO Demand Response programs.• Participated in incremental capacity auctions in the ISO-NE market.• Worked with ISOs to resolve potential dispatching issues for clients, as well as coordinating generator outage submissions.• Validated generator service and outage hours using GADS.• Contributed to the creation of a net metering forecast model for manufacturing facilities with on-site renewables.• Created daily market reports, weekly and monthly shadow settlement reports, and compared 60-day load reconciliation data to 7-day load data.• Coordinated with my team in to develop additional solutions for clients for which they may find value.

Master Of Science - Ms, Atmospheric Sciences And Meteorology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Atmospheric Sciences And Meteorology