T&D Talk, Part 3: Sharing Strategies to Improve Storm Response and Grid Resilience for Field Crews
Inside the Episode
T&D Talk is a special series on the T&D World Line Life podcast channel. For each episode, companies can share their stories about how they are supporting the electric utility industry. Through their tools, technologies, products and services, they are helping lineworkers and fieldworkers improve their productivity and safety.
The third part of our 2025 T&D Talk series, sponsored by Southwire, focuses on grid resiliency and reliability during the storm season. Our guest is Dr. Yuhsin Hawig, vice president of Applications Engineering for Southwire.
During the episode, she discusses how the frequency and intensity of storms are impacting electric utilities and how they can improve the wildfire resiliency of overhead conductors and make their underground systems storm-ready. For more information about Southwire, listen to Part 1 and Part 2 of the series or go to linelife.podbean.com. Thank you for tuning in to T&D Talk on the Line Life Podcast channel!
About Our Guest: Dr. Yuhsin Hawig of Southwire
Dr. Yuhsin Hawig is the vice president of Applications Engineering for Southwire. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Polymer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio with a diverse career history including the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST). She has authored 20 technical journal publications since 2001, written more than 200 technical whitepapers, and holds six U.S. and international patents, as well as served as a guest speaker for IEEE conferences & the Southeastern Electric Exchange trade association. She has been an active management board member for NEETRAC/Georgia Tech since 2015.
Listen to Other T&D Talk Episodes Sponsored by Southwire on the Line Life Podcast Channel
Southwire has sponsored a series of three podcasts in 2025 along with three more episodes in 2023. To listen to all the T&D Talk episodes sponsored by Southwire, go to linelife.podbean.com or click on the links below.