Richard Rhoads Email & Phone Number

Fort Lupton, Co

Manage plant maintenance and operations staff for a 5X2 272 MW combined cycle cogeneration facility. Including: (5) five G.E. LM6000PA SPRINT aero-derivative gas turbine generators, (5) five duct fired, dual pressure Nooter Erikson heat recovery steam generators, two ABB VAX MP 52.2 MVA steam turbine generators Provide primary point of contact for: Facility Ownership, Public Service Co. of Colorado, Western Systems Coordinating Council and State/Federal Regulatory bodies.

Fort Lupton, Co

Asset manager, responsible for Kinder Morgan’s North American electrical generation facilities.• Served on development team for dozens of generation projects, three of which were built.• Support of negotiations and management of power-related transactions such as tolling and power purchase agreements. Served as single point of contact for contract counter parties including: JP Morgan, Bear Sterns, Williams Energy and Mirant.• Developed start-up / O&M budgets for all KMPCo facilities• Creation and execution of energy management plans for each generating asset• Serve as the KM representative in providing mobilization and/or transition activities for new plants. Develop, implement, and execute the operations plan for start-up and operation of new plants.• Project manager for control system development and deployment for two 560 MW combined cycle facilities, Jackson, MI and Wrightsville, AR including: (6) LM6000PCs, (1) Frame 7EA DLN Combustion Turbine and (2) G.E. 104 MW Steam Turbines at each site.• Responsible for development of control systems for projects to be under construction• Developed Kinder Morgan Power, Employee Compensation Plan.• Performance engineer for all existing and proposed power projects utilizing Gate Cycle Thermodynamic Modeling Software