IEEE PES Show Blog

Murphy Is On The Floor Too!

April 20, 2010

Wandering around the floor is like running an obstacle course. Everyone is so busy. I try to stay in the background and out of the way. I was walking the center aisle and stumbled on to the Southern States booth - literally. My friend Tom Speas was busy working on the floor. He saw me and waved me over. They were in the final stages of setting up the booth. It is all most done. But one piece of equipment work on checkout. After is was 20 feet in the air, it wasn't working. Murphy is helping.

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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.