Gen System Operator​/System Operator TXNM Energy, Inc Mexico Category: Sy

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Under frequent and detailed direction, controls and operates the Company's transmission resources (voltage levels 46kV and above) and monitors the generation resources from a reliability perspective. Coordinates and matches firm and interruptible resources with load on a minute-by-minute basis in a safe, reliable, and economic manner. Achieves and maintains operating standards in compliance with all existing regulatory, reserve sharing-agencies, and company standards concerning spinning reserve, area control error, interchange schedule tagging, generator operation, disturbance recovery and inadvertent/deviation flow.

Operates the transmission system, which includes responsibility for VAR flow, losses, maintaining acceptable voltage levels, monitoring of operating transfer capability, OASIS administration, maintaining positive operating nomogram margins, etc. Coordinates and directs switching operation and maintenance of the transmission system. Serves as PNM’s liaison and balancing/transmission control agent between other balancing and/or market entities.

• Implements real-time actions, up to and including shedding firm load, to ensure stable and reliable operation of the Bulk Electric System.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation Operating Standards and other regional standards.
• Directs all actions for safety and reliability of the electric grid, of any hosted entities, field crews, or merchant scheduling organizations operating within or using the company’s balancing area in matters that affect electric grid reliability.
• Responds to requests by other utilities and wholesale marketers to use company-owned transmission system in accordance with established FERC guidelines via OASIS and ERCOT protocols for transmission services.
• Administers FERC approved tariff rates and ensures compliance with strict Standards of Conduct and ERCOT protocols for transmission services.
• Follows all guidelines written by senior staff.
• Operates the system on a minute-by-minute basis to match firm and interruptible resources to obligations, balance generation and transmission shares between utility companies/market entities, and verify metered flow quantities from PNM to other utilities.
• Responds to generation and transmission disturbances within established regulatory, industry, reserve sharing groups, and company standards to assure a continuous supply of electricity to customers.
• Maintains positive Nomogram Operating Margin/Operating Criteria and system voltages using complex system equipment in the most efficient and economical manner.
• Advise co-workers and management of normal and abnormal system conditions.
• Maintains reactive reserves and monitors Remedial Action Schemes (RAS) to ensure system reliability.
• Documents and communicates to various groups, all company and inter-utility system developments that could impact the Company’s inter-utility relationships or the security, reliability, and safety of the company’s transmission system, or the ability to serve load.
• Monitors critical items, including Control Performance Standards, Operating Reserves, Operating Transfer Capabilities, Interchange Schedule Tags, Substation Facility/Equipment Status.
• Represents the Company in developing and enhancing working relationships with other utilities/market entities and various regulatory bodies, and accepts assignments on various inter-utility Operating and Engineering committees.