Ramesh Paulaian

Project: Red Sea Utility and Infrastructure Project (400MW Solar PV, 1300MWhr BESS, 100MW ICE, 30MG RO Plant, Sewage treatment plant (Constructed wetland), 2No of District cooling plant and Solid Waste management systems.

Responsibility:

• Review and approve all project plans and specifications; sign off on completion and appropriate intervals and upon completion of project.
• Supervise and lead engineers, technicians, designers and other personnel involved in the design, planning and development of engineering projects as well as support personnel.
• Leadership, engineering management and feasibility studies, front-end engineering design layouts (for solar PV, ICE, SS and BESS), energy yield assessments, solar PV and BESS technology assessment, final approval.
• Oversee all engineering and related projects, services and functions.
• Set and follow departmental and project-specific budgets, approving all expenditures.
• Perform technical and commercial analyses and works to develop, design, tender finance, construct and operate renewable power generation projects with the support of consultants and EPC companies
• Managing the multiple shake holders as Owner Engineer (overall project engineering consultant and System studies consultant) and EPC engineering teams.
• Review EPC Contractor bids, designs, reports, orders, etc for compliance with Owner’s Requirements and EPC Contract Appendices;
• Review and monitor contractual requirements for all engineering, equipment suppliers, and construction contractors to support the project.

Achievement :

• Completed the engineering within the schedule period and no extra variation order issued to EPC.

Project:

1. REPDO Round 2 Jeddah 300MWac PV Solar Plant at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Client:Masdar/EDF/NESMA
2. Dismantling and Installation of 220/33kV Mobile grid at AL Shamka-1. Client: Mubadala/TRANSCO
3. Supply and Installation of 11 Nos 33/11kV Substation in AN AL FAYDHA Location in AL Ain/UAE
4. Supply and Installation of 2 Nos 33/11kV Substation in Nibras & Strata in AL Ain/UAE.

Tender:

1. REPDO Round 2 Consisting of six (6) Solar PV IPP’s with a combination capacity of 1.47GWac.

Secured the order for 300Mwac Jeddah IPP and other two IPP (300MW and 200MW) in Lowest bid.

2. Sudair 1.6 GWac Solar PV IPP with 380kV BSP and 2 Nos of 380/33kV PV Pooling Substation, Client: ACWA Power.

3. NEOM Helios 2.5GWac Solar PV Project, KSA with 380kV BSP and 2 Nos of 380/33kV PV Pooling Substation, Client : ACWA Power.

4. Al Dhafra PV2 2.1 GWac Solar PV IPP, Abu dhabi, UAE with 400kV Switching Station and 33/400kV PV Pooling Station and 305MWac BESS. Client: EDF / JINKO.

5. TANWEER Hybrid Renewables Independent Power Project at 11 Site entire OMAN, 37Mwac Solar PV, 27.9MWac BESS and 54.2 MWac Diesel Generator and 90MWac rehabilitated. Client: EDF.

Responsibility:

• Preparation of Engineering Plan aligned with the project, implementing the plan, monitoring and control.
• Responsible for preliminary and detailed design with focus on technical configuration optimization.
• Prepare technical reports detailing the findings of feasibility studies, Design plans and specifications for renewable energy systems
• Prepare cost-benefit analyses of proposed renewable energy projects
• Prepare estimate cost, engineering project schedules and monitoring projects with respect to person-hours Cost and earn ratio.
• Deliver specifications and interface data to the partners (system, turbines, generators and civil engineers) Responsible for the validation of schematics and documentation on specific aspects of projects.
• Responsible for ensuring customer requirement/specification and design risk assessments are in place for design solutions.
• Co-ordination with client to get design approval, suppliers for offer validation and approval, internal department for design delivery.
• Manage the entire design for the project including co-ordination of multi-discipline activities covering, Electrical, Civil/ Structural, MEP and others.
• Engineering feasibility study of existing 220kV GIS and Transformer, 33kV GIS Container for checking the healthiness and adding the additional equipment.
• Technical study and details design of Mobilization / Replacing of the Transformer & GIS.
• Responsible for managing engineering coordination between primary, secondary, civil, power cable & structure engineers in terms of deliverable to project team, engineering cost, delivery on time and quality of work.
• Responsible for delivering single line diagram, substation layout plan and elevations, electrical clearance diagram, grounding layout, cable trench layouts for outdoor switchyard & control room Building, transformer Yard, within the buildings of BOP, Control Room building Layout.
• Oversight of renewable substation projects of variable sizes and complexity, including scope and/or proposal development, team development and assignment, project execution, project closeout, and quality control, schedule, and budget management.

Achievement:

• Optimized bid for Repedo-3 IPP project. and lowest LCOE in Repdo-2

Project:

1. Construction of 115/13.8kV GIS Substations A & B at Al-Uqair. Saudi Arabia. Client: - Saudi Electricity company (SEC)

2. Supply and Installation of 2 Nos 132/11kV Substation in diff. Location in Kuwait . Client: - Ministry and Electricity Authority (MEW).

Responsibility:

• Review and approve all project plans and specifications; sign off on completion and appropriate intervals and upon completion of project.
• Preparation of the engineering drawings, calculation, vendor offer & Technical offer reviews and finalization of the detail BOQs.
• Responsible for Site constructions, procurement and delivery of the equipments

Project:

1. 765/400/220/123kV Intra state Transmission Project in UP,India.
2. 2x371 MW (STAGE-III) LANCO Combined Cycle power project,
(420kV 6bays Gas Insulated Substation), Client: LANCO Power Pvt. Ltd
3. 220/33kV, 125MVA Grid Substation work at MPT at Rajasthan, Client: Cairns Energy India Pvt. Ltd.
4. Rampur Hydroelectric Project, (H.P.) India (420kV 12bays Gas Insulated Substation), Client: SJVNL Ltd.
5. The turnkey project of Lines and 400kV Substation at Kankan power plant, IRAN (4bays GIS) etc..

Responsibility:

• Responsible for delivering entire substation (132kV to 400kV) engineering (proposal to detail design engineering)
• Responsible for engineering deliverables such as SLD, layout, grounding layout, cable trench and switch yard etc
• Preparation of details calculation as Earthing , cable sizing, LV cable sizing , voltage drop, Major components sizing,
• Detail technical analysis and calculation of Online system as PD monitoring and Bay watch system etc.

Project: New 400kV Grid station and 132/22kV Primary substation at AL REEM Island and Associated 400kV Cable Connection, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Preparation of the engineering drawings, calculation, vendor offer & Technical offer reviews and finalization of the detail BOQs.

• Construction of 69/13.8 kV Substation at AZ-ZUHOOR, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Preparation of the Protect Technical Specification (PTS) and review the technical document submitted by EPC.

• 300MW Wind Farm installation, and O&M Engineering of multiple rating of the WTG (Wind Turbine Generator) from 1MW, 1.25MW and 2.1 MW in Multiple location.
• In charge of engineering in souther part of the India for analysis the operational issues and troubleshooting, diagnosis, and root cause analysis of sub-assembly and system-level problem