Ray D. Email & Phone Number

Ireland

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

County Dublin, Ireland

- Develop, analyse and maintain power market models for SEM and I-SEM using PLEXOS to inform decision making at a strategic and tactical level within the organisation.- Provide grid input in to pre-construction, construction and assessment stages of projects including reviewing and assessing grid connections associated costs, assess and optimise grid.

Dublin

- Manage the electrical, control and integration front end engineering design of a 330 MW Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) project through managing multiple third party consultants ensuring deliverable to an acceptable standard and are in line with strict deadlines and within budget- Develop internal PLEXOS model of existing Irish Single Electricity.

Dublin

- Project Manager for the design and construction elements of transmission projects-Review planning application drawings and perform detailed project design review to ensure compliance with EirGrid functional specifications and operational standards- Work collaboratively with relevant departments in EirGrid, ESBN and 3rd Party Developers to deliver.

National Control Centre

Certified to remotely operate and manage switching at 400 kV, 220 kV and 110 kV on the Irish transmission system. Responsible for regulating voltages within tolerances, issuing dispatch instructions to maintain the system frequency within acceptable limits, managing work on the system and responding to system disturbances in real time.

Dublin

- Responsible for providing functional specifications outlining operational requirements for a wide variety of projects including new substations, new transformer and capacitor connections, line uprates and busbar uprates at 400, 220 and 110 kV.- Performing substation design review to ensure operational standards and requirements are met. This includes.

Dublin

• Gained valuable project management skills in assisting to bring the North – South 400 kV Interconnection Development, one of the largest infrastructural projects in Ireland, to oral hearing stage
• Consultation with An Bord Pleanala under Strategic Infrastructure Act 2006
• Reviewing development of environmental impact assessment and a wide range of technical reports
• Contract tendering through tender evaluation process
• Stakeholders management/consultation (landowners, public authorities, interest groups

• Investigating the operation of high voltage protection in response to system disturbances on the transmission system. Preparing detailed reports to a high standard. Fault analysis using PSS/e and PowerFactory
• Drafting, executing and reporting on switching plans at HV sub-stations
• Assisting in the specification of Special Protection Schemes
• Assisting in on-site testing of protection equipment