Michael Ranalli

Experience

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  Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.

  Jun 1991 - Jun 1996

  NY Transmission Control room operations, power dispatching, energy marketing, system security, selected to train company personnel in PowerChoice restructuring program. Required 12hr rotating shift work. Project management, scheduling using Primavera software, utilizing earned value techniques, cost analysis, selected as one of four candidates in Business Unit for Leadership Development program, participate in company restructuring program (PACE) wrt project management program

  • Transmission System Operator

    Nov 1993 - Jun 1996

  • Resource Engineer

    Jun 1991 - Oct 1993
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  Niagara Mohawk Energy Marketing

  Jul 1996 - Jan 2002

  Wholesale Energy Analyst/Trader

  Selected as one of original employees to start up this unregulated subsidiary. Wholesale energy trading requiring understanding of financial markets and trading skills, including negotiating purchase and sales contracts. Inside sales of the electric commodity. Understanding of the NY, PJM and NE markets. Responsible for establishing, maintaining and training personnel on the use of our energy transaction database. Financial analyses, general accounting, auditing and reporting for wholesale/retail energy marketing activities; interpreting complex data from various online data systems, which support multiple power pool/ISO activities. Prepare, verify and settle invoices or payments for wholesale, retail and structured energy transactions. Show less

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  National Grid

  Oct 2002 - now

  NY Transmission outage coordination both on the long-term and short-term basis. Conduct load flow studies on a regular basis. Monitor, analyze and report on congestion issues. Utilize the Primavera software to develop a long-term outage plan. Responded to PSC requests, helped develop testimony and analyzed outage data as it related to the upcoming merger with KeySpan, addressing the issue of vertical market power. OASIS billing. 24hr coverage of OASIS HVDC transmission requests. Development of HVDC sales strategy. Incident analysis and reporting. Contributed in the development of the National Grid Transmission Outage Application (TOA) program. Show less

  • Manager, Upstate NY Resource Planning, Transmission & Substations

    Jan 2015 - now

  • Lead Program Manager

    Sept 2008 - Jan 2015

  • Senior Engineer - Reliability Compliance

    Jul 2007 - Sept 2009

  • Transmission Outage Coordinator

    Oct 2002 - Jun 2007