IEEE PES Show Blog

Smart Grid - Lagniappe!

April 16, 2010

It looks like I started something. Holly Bounds from Siemens spoke to me on the phone today. She said Siemens will be offering attendees something extra at the T&D Expo. It is called the "Smart Grid Tour." This is only being offered in six cities in North America and the Expo is the debut. Siemens agrees with me about needing to educate our industry about the Smart Grid - take advantage of it. Let's stop the "Dating In The Dark" syndrome. The tour is designed to do that - it has education sessions, demos, displays, etc. I understand there will even be videos projected on their geodesic dome. Do you think this is Smart Grid Meets IMax? I can't wait to see what they are doing. Be sure to stop at the Siemens booth and sign up (if you want to do it now, www.usa.siemens.com/smartgridtour).

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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.