Sipping From A Fire Hose

I just talked with my friend Tommy Mayne. He is the North American T&D Chair and the man with all the inside information. Actually I hung on and Tommy hit me with nonstop action about the Expo and Nawlins. He and the Crescent City Currents are cooking ...

Gene Wolf Blog

April 13, 2010

He said first of all, we don't want to miss the Monday evening reception - this is party of parties!!! Tommy loves to party with his friends and fifteen to twenty thousand of his closest friends have been invited to party at the Expo reception. Tommy said to meet at the convention center and follow the parade to the Aquarium of the Americas. At this point, we have to make a decision - go into the aquarium or go to the festival (we call them fiesta in New Mexico). Food or fish? Maybe for the quick of hand it could be both. And that is just one of the activities he talked about. Stay tuned, there will be more!

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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.