Sreekanth Gurram

• Developed and maintained Base Case Assumptions for the MISO Market using the ABB's PROMOD IV software, incorporating factors such as commodity prices, generator supply, demand growth projections, capacity regulatory framework, RPS requirements, transmission expansion, and environmental regulations.
• Produced accurate and comprehensive hourly, monthly, and annual power prices, including realized prices, ancillary prices, gas prices, capacity prices, and REC price projections.
  Conducted basis and curtailment analysis through Security Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED) assessments, analyzing nodal prices, line loading using GE's PSLF, generator dispatch, and curtailment risk exposure.
• Evaluated voluntary and involuntary curtailment risks, providing valuable insights for strategic decision-making and system stability.
• Led sensitivity case analysis, assessing market dynamics under various scenarios and providing recommendations for renewable builds, gas prices, and load growth.
• Developed nodal battery storage dispatch and revenue projections, optimizing performance and profitability using the ES-Optima optimization model.
• Prepared detailed market and transmission reports, highlighting investment considerations and market trends.
• Provided comprehensive incremental support during the financing process, addressing inquiries, conducting research, and facilitating communication with stakeholders.

• Optimized and supported power market systems, working closely with various teams to stabilize and mature new market systems (including DAM, RTM, MQS, OMS, ADS, CMRI, and OASIS), and maintaining action plans to close open gaps.
  Contributed to the design and implementation of new market systems and enhancements: Energy Imbalance Market (EIM), FERC 764, RTDD, AS buy back, Pricing Inconsistency, Pay for Performance PFPR, and Market Validation Tool.
• Proposed, evaluated, and developed enhancements to the Electric Power markets to ensure efficient market operations and electric grid reliability.
• Implemented the Full Network Model into the CAISO Power Markets quarterly.
• Developed automation of regression and functional testing cases with SQL queries to improve testing quality.
• Validated and tested Post-Market Analyses, evaluated problems, and obtained required solutions to address the market participant disputes and inquiries.
• Wrote business requirements for new initiatives and market enhancements, and submitted proposals for stakeholder approval.

• Performed short circuit analysis, load flow analysis, and voltage drop analysis on distribution systems using ASPEN One-liner and SKM Powertools.
• Prepared scope of work documents, design criteria documents, and technical specifications for the 12KV distribution systems according to protection and control guidelines including standard utility practices such as the IEEE 1547 Standard for Interconnecting Distributed Resources with Electric Power Systems and BEC compliant designs.
• Maintained load flow models, protection relay coordination models and databases for Low voltage Distribution Management systems using SQL.
• Worked with engineers on substation surveys, feeder surveys, and equipment surveys, documented existing conditions, prepared calculations and drawings.

• Designed and developed protective relay & control schemes for 345KV and 138KV systems to protect and monitor the performance of NIPSCO facilities.
• Conducted system studies for available fault current, circuit breaker interrupting capability, transmission limitation, system losses, system harmonics, and system reliability, verifying and analyzing results.
• Developed test procedures and analyzed existing protective schemes for substations and generating stations to improve system integrity, security, and reliability using Doble and ProTest Software.
• Analyzed existing protective schemes for substations and generating stations, initiating changes, improvements in relay settings, modifications, or addition of equipment to improve system integrity, security, and reliability.

Coursework: Protective Relaying, System Planning, Power Systems Analysis, Power Distribution Systems, Power Lab, Auxiliary Electric System Design, Control Systems, Power Plant Instrumentation & Control

• Awarded Dean's Award for being Exceptional Student.