System Ops and Planning

RedSky has a proven track record in power system operations and planning, ensuring system reliability, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency across real-time and long-term horizons.
Our experience encompasses:
  • Transmission system planning in all time horizons.
  • Developing and implementing operational procedures and planning criteria to align with NERC and regional reliability standards.
  • Integrating lessons learned from event analyses and operational performance trends.
  • Interpreting evolving regulatory requirements and translating them into practical operational and planning processes.
  • Oversight of real-time and near-term control room activities.
  • Technical power system studies.
  • Safe and reliable dispatch of generation.
  • Secure operation of transmission facilities.
  • Collaboration with NERC Transmission Operators, Balancing Authorities, and Reliability Coordinators.
  • Coordination of outage scheduling.
  • Strategic planning
  • Monitoring system conditions and managing contingencies in compliance with NERC standards.
  • Conducting comprehensive load flow, contingency, and dynamic stability studies to assess the capability of the bulk electric system under various conditions.
  • Ensuring proposed system changes maintain grid reliability and meet interconnection and transmission service requirements.
  • Interconnection and transmission capability assessments, leading technical reviews, coordinating with engineering teams, and facilitating stakeholder discussions to address concerns, validate assumptions, and ensure consistency with applicable standards.
  • Developing and enforcing resource adequacy criteria, helping to forecast demand, assess capacity contributions, and evaluate the impact of variable generation on system reliability.
RedSky has a strong technical foundation with regulatory awareness and operational insight, enabling us to support both routine operations and long-term infrastructure planning in a manner that promotes reliability, efficiency, and compliance.

Contact RedSky: info@RedSkyInc.ca