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April 22, 2010

The folks at Southern States are very proud of their newest device to hit the industry. It is the RLSwitcher. They designed the world's first device specifically for switching reactors. Of course they have a lot of other world's first in their list, but this is the newest. The have also combined it with the space age current measuring device. When will they ever run out of ideas - never I hope. They keep me on my toes staying up with them. Go to to Joe Rostron, Rusty Ortkiese, and David Moore. They will be very happy to show the toys.

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Gene Wolf Blog | Technical Writer

Gene Wolf has been designing and building substations and other high technology facilities for over 32 years. He received his BSEE from Wichita State University. He received his MSEE from New Mexico State University. He is a registered professional engineer in the states of California and New Mexico. He started his career as a substation engineer for Kansas Gas and Electric, retired as the Principal Engineer of Stations for Public Service Company of New Mexico recently, and founded Lone Wolf Engineering, LLC an engineering consulting company.

Gene is widely recognized as a technical leader in the electric power industry. Gene is a fellow of the IEEE. He is the former Chairman of the IEEE PES T&D Committee. He has held the position of the Chairman of the HVDC & FACTS Subcommittee and membership in many T&D working groups. Gene is also active in renewable energy. He sponsored the formation of the “Integration of Renewable Energy into the Transmission & Distribution Grids” subcommittee and the “Intelligent Grid Transmission and Distribution” subcommittee within the Transmission and Distribution committee.