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You Will Not Believe This Stuff

May 8, 2012

There are some gigantic pieces of equipment on the floor here. I can not believe some of the things I have seen and the exhibits are not complete yet. What is there is impressive. There are all kinds of things here - bushings, full blown power ...

Gene Wolf Blog

There are some gigantic pieces of equipment on the floor here. I can not believe some of the things I have seen and the exhibits are not complete yet.

What is there is impressive. There are all kinds of things here - bushings, full blown power transformers, circuit breakers of every voltage level. I can't wait until the stars arrive - you know the experts that will discuss the devices on their exhibits. I have tons of questions and found some pretty cool technologies.

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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.