Company:
OptiSolar, Inc
Posted: May 07, 2008
Deadline: N/A
Description
Description: General Description and Responsibilities: You will be part of the core team responsible for defining, developing, and transitioning to production very large scale PV energy plants capable of being installed at breakthrough cost levels. Required skills include:
High Power (>10MW) Electrical Engineering and Design:
- Step-up transformers, their cost, efficiency, sizing, and significance of single or multiple step-ups on systems cost, performance, and reliability
- Safety features, interlocks, and switchgear
- 1-line and 3-line schematics
- Working directly with component manufacturers and sub-contractors
- Ability to creatively consider cost reduction ideas and strategies
- Well versed in all applicable codes (NEC, UL, NESC, CAS, IEEE, etc.)
- Knowledgeable in power distribution practices
- The ideal candidate will have knowledge of underground and overhead distribution practices and the hardware used
Grid Interconnection up to 500kV
- Sub-station design concepts and specifications
- 1-line and 3-line schematics
- Detailed component specifications, safety equipment, disconnects, relays and their settings, metering, SCADA
- Able to trade efficiency, output, and costs to optimize system
- Knowledge of the basic substation and distribution equipment and the cost tradeoff with functionality within each equipment classification (i.e. tradeoffs between fuses vs. breakers, overhead vs. underground)
- Electrical sizing of sub-station and medium voltage elements including wiring, safety disconnects, transformers, and buried cable, etc.
- Preparation of design drawings, bills of material, and operational procedures
Work experience requirements:
- At least 5 years in high power (multi-MW) and sub-station design (up to 500kV)
- Knowledge of electrical design software packages such as ETAP, GE PSLF, and EasyPower, performing load flow calculations, arc flash studies, breaker/protection coordination and setting calcs, ground grid calcs and transmission line sizing a plus
- AutoCAD or similar drafting experience preferable
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Must demonstrate strong engineering, design, and communication skills, and an ability to work in a dynamic team environment to think outside the box and solve traditional problems in new ways
Education Requirements
- BSEE w/ emphasis in power systems engineering
Contact Information
Contact: David F. Taggart
Email: lightspeed65@comcast.net