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Dominion Energy Virginia's Approach to Maintaining a Robust, Reliable, Resilient Grid

Dominion Energy is one of the nation’s largest producers and transporters of energy, with a portfolio of approximately 26,200 megawatts of generation, 15,000 miles of natural gas transmission, gathering and storage pipeline, and 6,600 miles of electric transmission lines. Dominion Energy Virginia is the electric utility responsible for managing an electric grid that spans across Virginia and North Carolina. This presentation will focus on Dominion's mission of ensuring a robust, reliable and resilient grid among all the existing and new challenges facing the industry, and how Dominion utilizes core fundamentals with the latest technology, tools and disciplines to address these challenges. The rapid pace of changes in generation (both in location and type), physical and cyber security, consumer/industrial load makeup, and societal/regulatory demands require new tools, new solutions, and new strategies to ensure the reliability and resiliency is maintained and improved further.

Presenters

Amanda Olson | Senior Electrical Engineer, Burns & McDonnell

Amanda Olson is a Senior Electrical Engineer at Burns & McDonnell. Amanda specializes in the design of electric power substations and substation security, and has worked with Dominion throughout the duration of her career. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Missouri University of Science & Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Missouri – Kansas City. She is a registered professional engineer, a member of IEEE, and chair of the CIGRE USNC Next Generation Network.

Kyle Thomas | Supervisor Electric Transmission Operations Engineering, Dominion Energy Virginia

Kyle Thomas is Supervisor of Electric Transmission Operations Engineering at Dominion Energy Virginia. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His current areas of focus are protection, wide area monitoring and control, cascading modeling and simulations, and the resiliency of transmission and distribution electric grids. Kyle is actively involved in the North American Synchrophasor Initiative, the Transient Recorder User Council, CIGRE, NATF, and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Spruha Sheth | Department Manager, Burns & McDonnell

Spruha Sheth is a transmission & distribution substation department manager at Burns & McDonnell. She has more than 15 years of experience in protection and control design and engineering, along with P&C commissioning support experience for substations in various voltages. She is experienced in developing one-line diagrams based on project scope documents, protection requirements, and automation requirements. Spruha’s background includes scoping, protection design and engineering, estimating, procurement, protection commissioning support and outage sequence analysis. She received her bachelor of science in electrical engineering in 2001 from the University of Texas at Arlington.

 

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