Summer Intern 2019 - Transmission Planning Assessment Taylor, TX/en-US/ercot_careers/job/Taylor-TX/Summer-Intern-2019---Transmission-Planning-Assessment_R0356/apply Are you an ERCOT Employee? If so please log in to Workday to apply. Job Description The mission of the ERCOT Summer Internship Program is to partner with students pursuing academic excellence to create opportunities that stretch learning experiences into a work environment with intellectually challenging projects and assignments. These opportunities will promote utility industry awareness, growth, and identification of top talent for future employment. The summer internship will be 40 hours a week during the summer. Summary of responsibilities of the Transmission Planning Intern : Transmission Planning Interns will work closely with planning engineers working on reliability and economic transmission planning at ERCOT. The interns will be expected to work on power system simulation tools such as . Interns can expect hands-on experience on power system simulation tools such as Powerworld, UPLAN, PSSE. Project Deliverable: Transmission Planning interns will be assigned to challenging engineering projects and assignments. A list of sample projects are listed below: * Distributed Energy Resources (DER) statistics and modeling research: develop statistics of the registered DERs in ERCOT, and research modeling options and potential impact to the ERCOT planning processes. Short circuit sequence DB building: * Review existing short circuit database modeling processes, design and test robust and efficient short circuit model update process. * Geo Magnetically Induced Currents (GIC) results validation tool: automate the process of validating the GIC results Benchmark results between different GIC models so that to evaluate the impact of changes in model and assumptions. * Study the impact of wide-spread adoption of electric vehicles on transmission planning. * Study will involve use of production cost simulation tool and research into electric vehicle charging patterns. Desired educational level: * Applicants should be pursuing a bachelors or graduate-level degree in electrical engineering, or a related field, with a focus on power systems and/or electricity markets Preferred experience: * Basic understanding of power system analysis * Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Python programming and Matlab Preferred work schedule of the intern: * 40 hours a week / Monday Friday 8AM - 5PM * Must be available to work onsite Interns will not be eligible for remote work. * May 28, 2019 August 9, 2019 Our summer internship program is a paid learning experience targeting primarily for students who have a GPA of 3.0 or better and who have at least completed their sophomore year. Graduate students are also highly encouraged to apply. Are you an ERCOT Employee? If so please log in to Workday to apply. Posted YesterdayFull timeR0356 The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) manages the flow of electric power to 24 million Texas customers - representing about 90 percent of the state's electric load. As the independent system operator for the region, ERCOT schedules power on an electric grid that connects more than 46,500 miles of transmission lines and 550 generating units. ERCOT also performs financial settlement for the competitive wholesale bulk-power market and administers retail switching for 7 million premises in competitive choice areas. ERCOT is a membership-based 501(c)(4) nonprofit corporation, governed by a board of directors and subject to oversight by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Texas Legislature. ERCOT's members include consumers, cooperatives, generators, power marketers, retail electric providers, investor-owned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers,) and municipal-owned electric utilities. ERCOT offers an excellent benefits package, which includes health, dental, vision, life insurance, long/short-term disability insurance, long-term care insurance, Section 125 Flexible Spending Account, and a Retirement Savings Plan. For more information, ERCOTs Benefits Summary is located on our website in the careers section.