NOVI – In MITech TV’s DATE episode, Tim Greenen, director of operations engineering at ITC, joined us to discuss proactive planning for the electric transmission grid to ensure the power flows to our homes and communities no matter the conditions.
Greenen leads a team that supports operations for ITC’s transmission lines through any extreme weather or service interruptions throughout the year. While ITC Operations is monitoring the lines around the clock, Greenen’s team is completing long- and short-term studies to determine whether ITC will have adequate capacity during peak load, when new manufacturing operations are onboarded or during maintenance work on the system.
Some of this monitoring is automated – the grid does a self-check every five minutes for N-minus-one contingencies, which determine whether the system will stay in operation if one element of the grid goes offline. However, the team must manually analyze the current situation at all times …