After graduating Mr. Polanco relocated to the United States in 2005 where he worked for couple of consulting companies in New York City (NYC) and Middletown, Connecticut (CT) performing Electrical Field metering Inspection Services work on Commercial systems in buildings and performing support in electrical CAD/Design work.

 

Later on, Mr. Polanco kept pursuing additional challenges and join in 2006 the Northeast Utilities (NU) company, today known as Eversource where he worked in the Substations and Transmission Protection and Controls (P&C) groups until 2010. On NU’s Substation group Mr. Polanco performed hundreds of Electro-Magnetic Field simulations using EPRI EMF Workstation a software programs designed to calculate magnetic and electric fields from T&D modeled lines configurations and substations. In addition, Mr. Polanco performed EMF measurements using IEEE-644 standard, and supported the NU thermal Ratings Calculations using IEEE-738 reporting back to the ISO-NE final computations for reliability compliance.

 

On the NU Transmission P&C Mr. Polanco was involved in executing many engineering scopes related to design reviews, short-circuit simulated fault studies, root-cause analysis (RCA), protection relay settings coordination evaluations, end-to-end tests and breaker ratings duty studies on NU’s 115-345kV system, being the two (2) more significant projects executed, first, the 115 kV Glenbrook Cables were Mr. Polanco received a recognition from the Edison Electrical Institute (EEI) for his project participation as part of the 2009 Edison Electric Institute (EEI) award to NU for its southwest Connecticut transmission projects, and seconds, the Kleen Energy Generation remote ends (Scovill Rock and Manchester) projects.

 

His ambitions lead him to join the General Electric (GE) Company Utilities Power Delivery consulting group for North America in Oakbrook Terrace, IL (Chicago Area) in 2010 as a Lead Protection and Controls (P&C) Engineer supporting many utilities customers thought the United States providing specialize consulting services on protection engineering scopes for major customers like Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE), Florida Power and Light (FPL), Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OGE), Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH) and others. The more significant projects executed by Mr. Polanco were BGE Northwest #2, BGE High Ridge (GIS) and leading the line protection end-to-end testing on the PSNH Paris Collector project.

 

After Mr. Polanco’s outstanding performance in GE’ Power Delivery team he was promoted to Senior Engineer (2012) and Principal Engineer (2014) joining the specialized GE Energy Consulting International team and relocated to Schenectady, New York, further expanding his technical skills and capabilities within the power system protection studies and developing an in-depth expertise in performing Power Plant, Generators, industrial and auxiliary systems modeling, calculations and relay settings recommendations, ending with more than sixty (60) power plants protection studies and analysis performed in 17 countries in support of projects all over the world between 2012-2017. The more significant power plants projects executed were the GE Algeria Megadeal (GE’s US$2.7B Projects) involving six (6) combine cycle plants (Bellara, MS Coastal, Djelfa, Khenchela, Oumache and Naama) with a total installed capacity of 8 gigawatt (GW) of electricity were Mr. Polanco performed the power plant modeling, short-circuit, protection settings calculations and programming, including providing remote support to the engineering on-site GE field electrical testing and commissioning teams.

 

In addition to supporting the GE Power Plant Generation business (GE Power), Mr. Polanco continued providing ongoing support for utilities and Industrial customers not only in the United States but also abroad and the more significant projects Mr. Polanco executed are the BGE 230kV Raphael Road substation, BGE 230/115kV Graceton substation, Scottish Power Energy Networks (SPEN) 400kV Series Compensated Line Protection recommendations, Postsdam Microgrid Project for National Grid USA, Freeport LNG Project, NorthWestern Energy NW 230kV Peterson Flats Series Compensated transient impedance evaluation and Sabiya (Middle-East) Power Plant 400kV Line equipment protection applications review.

 

Mr. Polanco was the Instructor responsible for teaching the Fundamentals of Power Systems Protection courses between 2012-2016 as part of the well-known General Electric (GE) “Power System & Energy Course (PSEC)” program, which has been taught in Schenectady, NY at the historic GE Power Systems headquarters since 1950. 

 

Mr. Polanco’s analytical and technical abilities are complemented by the familiarization and use of many industry software tools applied in power system modeling, simulations and analysis like ASPEN, ETAP, EasyPower, SKM, Siemens PTI PSS/E, PowerWorld, and his experienced with many relays manufacturers Electromechanical and microprocessors like GE, SEL, SIEMENS, Beckwith, Eaton and Areva relays.

 

Mr. Polanco has lead reliability standards implementations as NERC PRC-019, PRC-023, PRC-024 and PRC-025, Supervise Factory Acceptance Settings Test, provided Engineering Field Support during relay commissioning, developed end-to-end and dynamic test plan, perform short-circuit current calculations, power system modeling, protection coordination, root-cause analysis and has provided presentations, webinars and technical training promoting that acceptable levels of protection implementations and best engineering practices are shared around the world.

 

Mr. Polanco In his personal life, lives with his wife Yoely and 5 year old daughter’s Amy.