Electric System Coordinator I, II or Sr.

Company Summary Statement

Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company, part of the PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) family of companies, are regulated utilities that serve more than 1.3 million customers and have consistently ranked among the best companies for customer service in the United States. LG&E serves 334,000 natural gas and 433,000 electric customers in Louisville and 16 surrounding counties. KU serves 569,000 customers in 77 Kentucky counties and five counties in Virginia. LG&E and KU are major employers and active supporters of the communities they serve. They empower employees, community members and initiatives across their service territory through volunteerism and investments in organizations that support education, sustainability and wellbeing.

Overview

Responsible for operating the LG&E and KU transmission systems to ensure security and reliability. Activities may include coordinating equipment maintenance outages, maintaining system voltage, coordinating transmission and energy schedules, and performing all necessary balancing authority functions as mandated by FERC, NERC, and SERC reliability standards, operating policies, and codes of conduct.

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Responsibilities

• Monitors and controls the transmission system.
• Coordinates equipment maintenance outages for internal equipment and coordinates with neighboring utilities and the Reliability Coordinator if necessary.
• Monitor and maintain proper transmission system voltage and coordinates with neighboring utilities to control interconnected voltage across the bulk transmission system.
• Independently direct and coordinate the restoration of electrical service to wide areas of the state after storm outages and equipment failures of high voltage transmission facilities.
• Coordinates the testing of lines, bus sections and transformers with the transmission service groups and substation maintenance department during power outages.
• Maintains daily logs for transmission system operations, AVR control, Voltage Deviation, develop Line Outage Request and Equipment Failure Reports for both normal and emergency operation and various other system logs.
• Coordinate energy emergency plans within the Balancing Authority including up to load shed if necessary.
• Coordinates Line-Loading-Relief procedures with transmission engineering support staff and follows directives as given by TVA Reliability Coordinator.
• Performs all necessary balancing authority functions (e.g., monitoring of ACE, monitor interchange scheduling, tie line monitoring, hourly and daily tie line checkout, time error correction, transmission system monitoring, etc) and all others as deemed necessary by management.
• Work with Reliability Coordinator when re-dispatch of generation is required to maintain system reliability if compromised.
• Verify and update hourly schedules with all Load Serving Entities (LSE’s).
• Monitor and ensure remote operation of substations via the Energy Management System (EMS) and by directing Field Operations.
• Work with Operations Support Engineers to develop operational changes and maintain up-to-date data.
• Must achieve applicable NERC system operator certification.
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards
  
  
  

Qualifications

Required Education

Associate's Degree in engineering/electrical technology, mathematics, or related technical discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience on a year-for-year basis

Required Experience

Applicable experience includes technical knowledge and proficiencies acquired through work-related experience in the power industry, including electrical substations, line maintenance and/or generation

Preferred Qualfications

• Above average ability to analyze and evaluate technical material and data.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• NERC Reliability Coordinator (RC) certification
  
  
  

Must be proficient in PC word processing and spreadsheet applications.