Grid Compliance Manager
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Grid Code Compliance Leadership
- Own the Grid Code Compliance Strategy and maintain the compliance roadmap.
- Ensure compliance with the Saudi Arabian Grid Code, TRCG requirements, utility connection agreements, and transmission regulations.
- Establish compliance milestones and report status, risks, decisions, and approval progress.
Utility and Regulatory Interface
- Act as the primary technical focal point with SEC, Saudi Electricity, transmission operators, regulators, and independent reviewers.
- Lead technical workshops, compliance reviews, approval meetings, and comment close-out sessions.
- Coordinate regulator comments, technical queries, submission cycles, and approval of technical reports and study packages.
Grid Compliance Studies
- Lead dynamic studies covering DMAT, dynamic impact, model benchmarking, voltage stability, and frequency stability.
- Lead static studies covering load flow, short circuit, reactive power, transformer energization, and transmission line auto-reclosing.
- Manage harmonic studies, filter design validation, power quality assessments, and grid interaction studies.
OEM and Contractor Coordination
- Coordinate technical activities across solar, wind, BESS, electrolyser, STATCOM, EPC, study consultant, and protection vendor teams.
- Track validated PSS/E, PSCAD, DIgSILENT, and RTDS models and monitor OEM issue resolution.
- Drive closure of technical issues affecting studies, utility approval, energization, or full-load operation.
RTDS and Model Validation
- Lead Real-Time Digital Simulation compliance activities and model benchmarking.
- Coordinate hardware-in-the-loop and controller testing where required.
- Ensure consistency among PSCAD, PSS/E, RTDS, and site-installed system models and support Site Acceptance Testing.
Controls and Protection Compliance
- Ensure compliance of active power control, voltage control, fast generation shedding, fast load shedding, protection schemes, and plant controller functions.
- Coordinate validation of grid-forming and grid-following controls through studies, testing, and field verification.
- Confirm that control and protection logic supports stable grid operation and utility requirements.
Risk Management
- Identify risks related to connection approvals, study delays, harmonics, model readiness, OEM performance, protection coordination, and regulatory compliance.
- Establish mitigation plans, escalate unresolved risks, and maintain a Grid Compliance Risk Register and action tracker.
Commissioning and Start-up Support
- Support energization and commissioning strategy from a grid compliance perspective.
- Review switching philosophies, operating procedures, and grid-code demonstration requirements.
- Support first energization, first synchronization, performance testing, operational demonstrations, readiness reviews, and handover.
Requirements
- Experience leading grid-code compliance strategy and maintaining a compliance roadmap.
- Knowledge of the Saudi Arabian Grid Code, TRCG requirements, utility connection agreements, and applicable transmission regulations.
- Experience coordinating dynamic studies such as DMAT, dynamic impact, model benchmarking, voltage stability, and frequency stability studies.
- Experience coordinating static, power quality, and grid interaction studies.
- Experience with PSS/E, PSCAD, DIgSILENT, and RTDS models and model validation.
- Knowledge of active and voltage power control, fast generation and load shedding, protection schemes, and plant controller functions.
- Experience coordinating OEM, EPC, study consultant, and protection vendor technical activities.
- Experience supporting energization, commissioning, performance testing, and operational demonstrations.
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