Power Electronics Senior​/Staff Engineer - ET Strategic Initiatives Special Studies

Dominion Energy is committed to providing reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean energy that powers our customers every day. If you want to work for a purpose-driven company that values safety and collaboration, we’re looking for you. You won’t just find a job here; you’ll find your career.

We offer a hybrid 3-2 work schedule (three days in the office, two days of teleworking) to accommodate the need for flexibility.

Military service members and veterans with ranks from E5-E9, W1-CW5, or O3-O6, plus appropriate equivalent combination of education and years of experience as outlined below will be considered for this opportunity.

Dominion Energy (DE) is seeking a Senior or Staff Engineer to be a part of the Electric Transmission (ET) Planning & Strategic Initiatives team. Because of the unique data center load growth, aggressive clean energy goals, and commitment to the safety and reliability of the bulk electric system, DE must explore unconventional solutions to meet our customer’s needs. This is a team dedicated to evaluating new technologies and methodologies that could be used to support the ET Planning team as they solve reliability issues identified in the PJM Regional Transmission Expansion Planning (RTEP) Process.

The candidates will be part of a team that provides technical expertise and support for Dominion Energy Electric Transmission Inverter-Based Resources (IBRs) integration, FACTS devices (such as STATCOMs and SVCs), and HVDC into the grid. The candidate must have the knowledge and understanding of Grid-Forming (GFM) and Grid-Following (GFL) inverter controls. ET Special Studies provides domain expertise and engineering root cause analysis for operational challenges across Dominion Energy and the electric grid.

As novel challenges arise, Special Studies cultivates and develop the necessary knowledge base and modeling, simulation, and other engineering capabilities to address them. Candidates should have a strong electrical engineering background with power electronics concentration and possess strong knowledge of engineering principles and practices, preferably in electric power systems. A working knowledge of analysis software packages such as PSCAD, RSCAD, PSS , Python, MATLAB, etc.,

is also preferred.

Additionally, our team is geared towards performing studies that may fall outside of the normal planning processes including but not limited to fault-induced delayed voltage recovery studies, how to integrate probabilistic techniques to account for multiple types of planning scenarios, how to account for intermittent generation in planning cases, dynamic generator model validation, development of dynamic data center load models, evaluating HVDC for the DE footprint, looking at whether gas insulated lines make sense anywhere on our system, understanding the pros and cons of synchronous condensers, FACTs devices, and static reactive devices, how can and should batteries be justified through transmission projects, among other types of studies.

Candidates should have a strong electrical engineering background and possess strong knowledge of engineering principles and practices.

Job activities may include:

• Power system modeling and analysis
• Load flow, dynamic, and small signal studies
• Transient and electromagnetic simulations
• Real-time digital simulations
• Support the deployment of grid-forming inverter technologies to support the integration of utility-scale solar and energy storage systems.
• Collaborate with inverter OEMs to develop and pilot advanced control algorithms for GFL and GFM inverters.
• Investigate IBRs GFL and GFM controls to ensure grid stability, system strength, and reliability.
• Develop models and conduct simulations using tools like RSCAD, PSCAD, etc. to analyze system dynamics, power quality, and grid stability.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams within Dominion Energy and external to integrate GFM renewable energy projects into Dominion Energy grid.
• Investigate, assess, and apply the latest advancements in grid-forming technology, and power system stability.
• Support in writing technical papers or reports, engineering specifications, and contribute to DOE…