Specialist Expost - Mississauga, Canada - Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)

Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)

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Mississauga, Canada

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Specialist Expost:

Date:
Jan 26, 2024

Location:

CA

Company:
Independent Electricity System Operator

INDEPENDENT ELECTRICITY SYSTEM OPERATOR (IESO)

Requisition ID:

19552
Location:
Mississauga, hybrid
Status:
Temporary, up to 18 months
Business Unit:
Markets & Reliability
Why join us?

You've got great skills. And you want to use them in an organization where you know what you do every day matters. We get that.
We also know that ensuring Ontarians have access to affordable and reliable power doesn't happen by accident.

So we give you the tools, flexibility and support you need to achieve your goals, and development opportunities to help you grow.

You'll thrive in a collaborative, team-based environment that values your unique skills and experiences - and recognizes that when you do better, we become even better too.

Who we are

The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) works at the centre of the province's power system, ensuring Ontarians have access to reliable and cost-effective electricity when and where they need it.

We operate the province's electricity grid 24/7, design, run and oversee the wholesale electricity markets, and plan and prepare to meet Ontario's electricity needs - now and into the future.

The opportunity

Provide technical expertise and analysis in the provision of accurate, timely and auditable settlement-ready data (including prices and schedules) from real-time processes to associated IESO departments consistent with the obligations of the Market Rules.

What you'll be doing

Using power system and market rule understanding, provide accurate, timely and auditable settlementready data from realtime processes to associated IESO departments consistent with the obligations of the Market Rules and supporting departmental processes. Collect, verify and prepare settlementready data for offmarket transactions. These data submissions include but are not limited to areas such as Market Suspension and Resumption, Administrative Pricing, Market Data Verification, Ancillary Service Contracts, Emergency Transactions, Notice of Disagreements, Data Publishing, and associated reporting.
Invoke the functions to establish administrative prices and corresponding market schedules:
following outages to IESO administered markets software, hardware and communications systems that resulted in the IESO being unable to publish prices and market schedules;

- where incorrect inputs which affected the output of the dispatch algorithm have resulted in incorrect prices;
- where the real-time energy market or the operating reserve market has been suspended.

Recommend the required course of action in establishing administrative prices and corresponding market schedules
Perform market data correction for both routine and complex issues
Correct energy and operating reserve market data before this information is provided to the settlement process for determining settlement amounts
Prepare reports such as Dispatch Deviation Report. Confirm that all reports have been successfully published
Support Market Participant NOD (Notice of Disagreement) investigations to determine actions required to ensure correct settlement outcome
Provide input to the ongoing improvement of Expost tools and recommend changes and development of software tools
Perform other duties as required

What you need to suceed

Requires knowledge of electrical theory, power system analysis and control, mathematics and computer science to carry out engineering, economic or analytical studies related to the steps and interfaces involved in ensuring that correct settlement statements are issued to market participants, the mechanics involved in administering prices and corresponding market schedules in the event of Market Suspension, hardware/software failures, data errors, IESO business process failures; and the verification and correction of market data in the event of errors or omissions
Requires knowledge of technical writing to prepare effective reports and process descriptions/user guides

This knowledge is considered to be normally acquired either through the successful completion of 4 years University Education, or by having the equivalent.

Requires exposure to the overall power system operation through progressive training in an appropriate technical field to maintain a thorough understanding of System Operation
Requires considerable exposure to system and market operation practices and procedures, including legislation, resource utilization, and system control techniques to acquire a good understanding of system limits and system anomalies and to understand system and market conditions and results
Requires experience in researching the practices and procedures of other jurisdictions, utilizing theoretical assumptions and considering the merits of various alternatives. Requires experience in guiding, training and providing advice to