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Inside PG&EsSmart Grid LabA unique smart grid testing lab provides prototyping and proof

of concept for Pacific Gas and Electric deployments.

By David Bradley and Ryan Hanley, Pacic Gas and Electric Co.

Terry Boston:A Gentlemans Rise in the Energy World

Terry Boston may be one of the most influential people in the energy worldtoday. His expertise and innovative outlook have been acknowledged

with awards and accolades from industry groups and publications,

but his success was born in humble beginnings.

By Pamela Kufahl, Contributing Writer

Industry Partnership Instills Best PracticesLine contracting firms partner with OSHA and industry organizations

to implement best practices, train linemen and drive down injury rates.

ByAmy Fischbach, Field Editor

The Pulse of the GridBPA leverages synchrophasor breakthroughs to provide a quantum leapin power grid control.

By Dmitry Kosterev, Lawrence Carterand Scott Lissit,

Bonneville Power Administration

The AmpaCity ProjectRWE replaced a conventional high-voltage cable system in Essen City

center with a medium-voltage superconducting cable system.

By Frank Merschel, RWE Deutschland AG, and Mathias Noe,

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

MLGW Eliminates Long Lead TimesStrategic alliances help Memphis Light, Gas and Water Divisionmaintain order and delivery schedules of critical equipment.

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GLOBALViewpointThe Accidental Executive. Two out of three executives in the energy space

may be in it mostly for personal gain, but there are plenty of executives

whose first love is serving customers and doing the do these are the

accidental executives.

By Rick Bush, Editorial Director

BUSINESSDevelopmentsMISO Completes Power Grid Integration

Alstoms Integrated DMS to Power Pennsylvania

LIPA Restructures $2.1 Billion in Debt

TECHNOLOGYUpdatesGeorgia Exports Green Energy to Neighboring Turkey

Sensored Termination Enables Real-Time Monitoring to Support Grid

Automation in Underground Distribution Networks

Siemens Service Extends Lifespan of Power Cables

INDUSTRYReportTraining and Retaining Future Linemen. As more electric utilities face

recruitment and retention issues, the Transmission & Distribution

Maintenance Management Association is helping field managers learnhow to find and train the next generation of line workers.

By George Patrick, TDMMA

CHARACTERSwithCharacterBuilding Blocks.Veronica Rivero Gorrin, an architectural engineering

student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is headed toward a promising

career as a builder of everything from substations to communities.

ByJames R. Dukart, Contributing Writer

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Target Your Investments. Using a simulation process, Con Ed is able toimitate real-life conditions using probability statistics that show where

equipment failures are most likely to occur, and then channel its reliability

investments to retire those components to avoid service problems.

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Photo GalleriesA Retrospective:Transmission and DistributionCoversA look back intime: The editorshave gone downto our archivesand gatheredcovers datingback to 1957.What we foundwill amuse andamaze. Engineersof yore built

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The Grandeur of U.S. WindTesting FacilitiesImages fromAmericas grandwind testingfacilities,including

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Grid OptimizationListen Up! BlogDuke Energy Wind Farm Bird Kill:Gort Meets Bambi?Wind farm bird kills are nothing new. But untilnow, no ones pushed prosecution because

birds and wind turbines are both protected byenvironmental advocacy. That creates a dilemma.

Vegetation ManagementResource CenterA Look Back at the VegetationManagement YearIts that time of the year when I like to look backand take stock to help energize and providefocus for the future. But before I do, I wantto return to the theme Ive been pressing forthe last couple of months: We need to gainacceptance of the risks associated with providingelectrical service being not solely a utility issuebut a societal issue.
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The Accidental Executive

Iwas at Kinkos picking up a disk that contained scans ofretro Transmission and Distribution covers from the 1950s.These scans now have been placed in a photo gallery thatyou can see on our home page. Talk about a nostalgic trip backin time. I was pleasantly surprised to see the level of sophisti-cation our engineers demonstrated back in the day. Here isa snapshot of what I found: aerial surveying, helicopter-aidedtower construction, mobile substations, cable laying and un-

derground residential distribution. How cool is that?I struck up a conversation with Sylvia at the Kinkos counterand had her pull up the scans on her computer screen. Then Irealized that the biggest difference between then and now isntthe technology but the pace of work. Our lives are so hecticand so compressed today. Back when I joined Georgia Powerin 1971, work progressed at a more casual pace. We had timeto mentor and to be mentored. We had time for one another.

Sylvia mentioned that she had a previous boss who focusedprimarily on upward mobility, and as long as you understood

where the boss was coming from, you could do all right.In my job as editor of Transmission & Distribution World, I

have met hundreds of executives, and I am quite qualied tostate that two out of three executives in the energy space havetheir primary focus on what is in it for them. However, that stillleaves plenty of executives whose rst love is serving custom-ers. I call these guys accidental executives.

Accidental ExecutivesWhen I got back to the ofce and started reviewing the cov-

ers with our art director, Susan Lakin, I found myself in quitea reective mood. I started to run through some of my friends

who have become accidental executives over the years.One buddy Lawrence Webb was selling cable for General

Cable when I rst met him. When his marriage hit hard times,Lawrences wife headed to England, so Lawrence then picked

up stakes and relocated to England to be near his son. To sup-port himself, he started a business marketing and selling cablein conduit. He rolled out more products in the telecom spaceand his business took off. Lawrence found himself to be anaccidental executive. Years later, I asked Lawrence, How did

you manage to grow the business? What led to your success?His answer, Rick, I just kept doing the do.

Twenty years ago when I joined T&D World, I found myselfbumping into Jim Lusby, who was managing the T&D businessfor Black & Veatch. Jim was always encouraging the folks in hisdivision to reach higher and make a bigger difference. Jim andI collaborated to hold several industry executive roundtables

to provide our readers with a bigger vision of what was trans-piring in all areas of T&D. Never one to grab the spotlight, Jim

was content to provide thought leaders in our industry with anopportunity to share their perspectives.

Another buddy Keith Lindsey owns a small manufacturingcompany that makes everything from volt-age sensors to sag monitors to emergencytowers. Every time he sees a need, he tries toll it. But many of the needs he lls do notgenerate any revenue for his company. Forexample, Keith has been serving on IEEEand CIGR standard writing committeesfor as long as Ive known him, which spansat least 35 years. He is a seless man and an-other accidental executive.

And the list of people I consider greats precisely because they dont think ofthemselves at all goes on and on.

Now this guy is a classic: Johnny Priest.He put in one full career at Duke and then

went to run for-prot Duke Energy Servic-es. I rst met Johnny at an Edison ElectricInstitute meeting. He was working the room

hard. I tapped him on the shoulder andasked him who he was and what he was do-ing. Most of the executives were complain-ing about one thing or another. Not Johnny.

Jim Lusby, a long-time Black & Veatch executive, stands in front of the kitchen counter withchief cook and bottle washer Bruce Fritz, Rick Bush and the dining-room diva Dianne Fritz.

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He had no interest in looking back. This guy is awed in thathe cant stop doing the do. Hes moved on to run other de-livery services companies, but two things remain constant: hebelieves in quality, and he believes in his workers and safe workpractices. He is another accidental executive.

Recently, I was talking with Alan Sneath who develops busi-ness at Black & Veatch, and he mentioned that my buddy JimLusby was retiring after 45 years with the company. Alan hint-ed that I might want to provide Jim a little printed send-off,although that is exactly what Jim would like to avoid. So

I invited Lusby out to lunch to his favorite place, Fritzs. Thisis a chili joint straight out of the 1960s. Fritzs still has originalred-and-white-checkered linoleum oors and white-speckledFormica tables. This place is the epitome of Americana.

Fritz and his wife, Dianne, have been serving up chili righthere for decades. This is Jims favorite dive, and I say that ina complimentary way. Jim and I have been eating lunch here

on and off for years. Now, Jim is so cheap that we always wentDutch. That bugger. But what wide-ranging conversations wehave had on the future of energy. We solved so many issues in our own minds right there eating soda crackers andchili with beans (I get mine with onions and cheese for anupcharge). When we said our last goodbyes, I wouldnt takeno for an answer and picked up Jims $7 tab. That makes methe last of the big spenders.

Id like to conclude this piece by lifting up a glass (of DietCoke) to all of you out there who came into this industry toserve. So, whether you ended up in a corner ofce, or you are

an engineer cranking away in a cubicle, or your corner ofceis a bucket truck, you are tops in my mind. Because what Ibelieve truly satises a person is to be able to say at the end ofa day, a week, a month, a year or a career I did my best andmade a difference.

Fritzs serves chili only chili. But what Fritzs lacks in a diversifiedmenu, it makes up for in atmosphere, that is, if 1960s Americana is whatyou want. Rick Bush was finally able to convince Jim Lusby to let him pickup the check. They pose for one last time in front of the luncheon spotwhere they exchanged many an opinion.
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BUSINESSDevelopments

Alstoms Integrated DMS to Power Pennsylvania Smart Grid

Long Island Power Authority Restructures $2.1 Billion in Debt

MISO Completes Power Grid Integration

PPL Electric Utilities has selected Alstom to provide itsIntegrated Distribution Management System (IDMS), whichprovides electric delivery service to 1.4 million customers in

the state of Pennsylvania. The contract is an integral part ofPPL Electric Utilities three-year, US$38 million smart gridproject to enhance system reliability in the Harrisburg area.

This Alstom-designed technology, known as e-terra distri-bution 3.0, combines supervisory control and data acquisition(SCADA) software and advanced distribution managementsystem (DMS) in one integrated DMS. The project followsPPL Electric Utilities installation of an Alstom Energy Man-agement System. The seamless IDMS includes a single-userinterface using a single-network model to provide PPL Elec-tric Utilities distribution operators with real-time situationalawareness for improved reliability. From one point in its con-

trol room, PPL Electric Utilities can access a suite of smartapplications to monitor and control electricity distributionand transmission networks, maximizing reliability across the

entire network.Storm restoration and resiliency is a key concern for distri-

bution utilities. Alstoms IDMS technology offers self-healingattributes to locate faults, while the automated response capa-bilities help speed efforts to restore power and improve overallreliability. The single-platform software architecture was de-

veloped specically for three-phase unbalanced distributionnetworks and is well suited to handle large volumes of data.This will help PPL Electric Utilities make informed decisionsconcerning both day-to-day operations and outages from se-

vere weather events.For more information, visitwww.pplelectric.com.

The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) has successfullycompleted a major renancing of US$2.138 billion of its out-standing debt at signicantly lower interest rates. It is the rst-ever AA A rated deal for a municipal utility.

The transaction, known as securitization, allows LIPA toreplace some of its debt with higher quality and, therefore, lessexpensive debt that is secured by a separate charge to be recov-ered from LIPAs customers on their regular utility bills. Secu-

ritization, authorized as part of the recent LIPA Reform Actpassed by the New York Legislature, will reduce the amount ofdebt held by the utility.

The Utility Debt Securitization Authority (UDSA), a sepa-

rate state entity, was created by the state legislature to issuethe AAA-rated bonds, and will collect the nancing costs viaa separate charge on utility bills. LIPA will reduce its owncharges by an equal amount so that there will be no increaseto customers bills.

Repayment of the securitization bonds is scheduled to be-gin in March. The bonds will be repaid over their life as a sepa-rate cents-per-kilowatt-hour charge on the bill that will be set

initially at 1.25 cents per kWh. The charge will be reset in Janu-ary 2015, and reviewed every six months to recover exactly theamount needed to meet the UDSA obligations for each period.

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footprint of 65,280 miles (105,026 km)

of transmission with total electric gener-ation capacity throughout MISO of ap-proximately 196,000 MW, making MISOone of the largest power grid operatorsin the world. This will result in moreefcient dispatch of resources to meetenergy demands across the region.

The integration added 10 new trans-mission-owning companies, six localbalancing authorities and 33 new mar-ket participants from Mississippi, Loui-

siana, Arkansas, Texas and Missouri toMISO. This new region MISO South includes the following transmissionowners and local balancing authorities:Entergy (Arkansas, Mississippi, Loui-siana, Texas, Gulf States and New Or-

MISOs LMP Contour Map offers a detailedvisualization of real-time market conditions.

At the stroke of midnight on Dec. 18,

MISO successfully integrated a four-state region of the electric grid acrossthe South into MISOs existing footprintin the Midwest. The change in control,or cutover, extends MISOs operation-al and market footprints from the Gulfof Mexico to Manitoba, Canada.

In 2012, an independent industryanalysis projected savings of US$1.4 bil-lion over a 10-year period as a result ofthe new members joining MISO. The

study reinforced MISOs core belief thata collective, regionwide approach togrid planning and management deliversthe greatest benets as evident throughMISOs value proposition.

MISO now manages a combined

leans), Cleco Corp., Lafayette UtilitiesSystem, Louisiana Energy and Power

Authority, Louisiana Generating, SouthMississippi Electric Power Associationand East Texas Electric Cooperative.

To prepare for the cutover, MISO and

all of the stakeholders involved with theintegration effort participated in a fullyear of readiness activities that includedhundreds of training courses, system de-

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SunEdison Announces R1.8 Billion in Funding for 60-MW Solar ParkGlobal solar energy services and technology provider

SunEdison Inc., through its South African afliate, has se-cured R1.8 billion (US$185 million) in foreign debt fundingfrom the Overseas Private Investment Corp. This amounts to75% of the R2.4 billion project cost for the Boshof Solar Park

Project, located in South Africas Free State province nearKimberley.

Electricity generated by Boshof, with an installed capacityof 60 MW alternating current, will feed into the South Afri-can grid, under the terms of a 20-year power purchase andimplementation agreement signed with national power utility

Eskom and the Department of Energy. The plant is scheduledto begin generating electricity in the fourth quarter of 2014.

Boshof is the rst project in South Africas Renewable En-ergy Independent Power Producer Program to be suppliedby a local South African majority-owned photovoltaic mod-

ule manufacturer. SunEdison will maintain a 51% ownershipstake in the project, with South African companies holdingthe remaining 49%.

The Boshof Solar Park Project is expected to create ap-proximately 280 jobs during its construction and operationalphases, and through the use of local subcontractors, the proj-

ect is expected to support more than 1,000jobs. Approximately 50% of the projectstotal value will go to South African manu-facturers supplying local components andSouth Africa service providers, including

the SunEdison AP90 single-axis track-ers that will be locally manufactured forthe project. Total procurement from eco-nomic-empowered entities is estimated atR685 million (US$67.9 million).

More than R200 million (US$19.7 mil-lion) is set aside for projects that will trans-form the community by improving accessto education and healthcare, and support-ing enterprise development and otherprojects to improve the quality of life forresidents throughout the Free State and

Northern Cape.Construction has begun on two other

utility-scale projects developed by Sun-Edison in Limpopo province, Soutpanand Witkop, which together total 58 MWcontracted capacity. As with Boshof, theseprojects rely on local subcontractors tohelp improve the overall economy and cre-ate employment opportunities.

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Greenlee TextronAcquires HD ElectricGreenlee/A Textron Company has an-

nounced the acquisition of HD ElectricCo., a Waukegan, Illinois, U.S.-based de-signer and manufacturer of power utilityproducts.

HD Electric specializes in test and mea-surement, controls and system monitor-ing, safety and specialty products for theelectric power industry. The company will

join the Greenlee family of brands along-side Greenlee, Klauke, Greenlee Commu-nications and Sherman + Reilly.

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TECHNOLOGYUpdates

Sensored Termination Enables Real-Time Monitoring to SupportGrid Automation in Underground Distribution Networks

Georgia Exports Green Energy to Neighboring Turkey

A view of the entire Akhaltsikhe substation, which includes twoHVDC back-to-back links, three synchronous condensers and the

air-insulated substation.

The 3M Electrical Markets Division introduces a new sens-ing solution that enables power utilities to monitor their un-derground distribution systems, helping utilities realize thebenets of their grid automation systems. The 3M SensoredTermination QX-Series supports applications such as volt/

VAR optimization, asset management, load balancing, andfault detection, isolation and restoration.

The ability to acquire accurate data from critical pointsthroughout the underground medium-voltage distributionnetwork is a key requirement for enhancing the reliability andefciency of the grid. The sensored termination is designedto provide highly accurate voltage and current data through

simple retrots of existing power equipment such asswitchgear and transformers. The terminationprovides data that can enable real-timemonitoring and control and automa-

tion capabilities throughout the underground medium-voltage distribution network.

The sensored termination provides a pathway to theconductor within the shielded cable, delivering ac-curate voltage and current waveforms in real time.The compact one-piece mechanical and electricalconnection requires minimal downtime to install.

Cold-shrink technology allows simple, fast, reliableinstallation without the use of special tools, sealants,adhesives, torches or other heat sources. The sensor isprecalibrated and factory tested to ensure maximum

reliability; no eld calibration is required to maintain

accuracy levels.The sensored termination is designed for indoorapplications that use a live-front form factor.

For more information, visitwww.3M.com.

Georgia is the rst country in the Caucasus region using

high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) links, improving thereliability of its power supply and efciently exporting eco-friendly electric power to a neighboring country.

Turkey has a growing demand for power. Georgia has anabundance of renewable power sources, such as hydro and

wind. Georgias grid network was not designed as a networkfor an independent state, as it was part of the power supply inthe Caucasus that was linked to the Soviet republics. The chal-lenge is to break down existing barriers across the borders,connect different power supply networks of varying technicalparameters (frequency and phasing), and stabilize power sup-

ply while enabling the export of excessive power.The Georgia-Black Sea Transmission Network Projectbegan in 2010 with support from the European InvestmentBank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Develop-ment, the German KfW Group and the Development Bankof Austria. The ambitious project completed on Dec. 11, 2013.

Siemens Energy completed two back-to-back HVDC linksat the Akhaltsikhe substation in southern Georgia, close tothe Turkish border, for Energotrans Ltd. The new back-to-back HVDC links feed a 400-kV overhead transmission linethat connects to the Turkish 400-kV grid at the border. Eachlink transmits 350 MW of eco-friendly electric power, which is

crucial for Turkeys growing power demand.The three-phase alternating current of the one network is

converted in the new converter substation into direct currentand transmitted directly via a DC link to the inverter station.There, the direct current is converted back into three-phasecurrent with simultaneous adjustment to the parameters ofthe network into which it is to be fed. This enables seamless

interconnection of the two networks.The Georgian network is based on a 500-kV system. The

Georgia HVDC station converts power from 500- to 400-kVand back. The station operates on two back-to-back links, eachline of which is able to transmit 350 MW of power. The line toTurkey is 151 km (94 miles) long, ending at Borchkha substa-tion in Turkey.

The HVDC back-to-back links provide protection againstcascading grid disturbances, acting like an automatic rewallthat can control stops and restarts of the transport of electric

power.Georgia is working to establish membership in the Euro-

pean Network of Transmission System Operators for Electric-ity with the expectation of exporting electricity to other Euro-pean Union countries, made possible by this new transmissionsolution.

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Cable rejuvenation offers significant timesavings compared to cable replacementand allows power to be restored quickly.Photo courtesy of Novinium.

Siemens ServiceExtends Lifespanof Power Cables

With Califex, Siemens Smart Grid

Division is offering a new service to en-ergy suppliers, utilities and industrial

plants (initially in Germany, Sweden

and Norway) that extends the lifespan

of insulated medium-voltage cables.

Siemens is implementing a cable-

rejuvenation process, developed by its

U.S. partner Novinium, that injects a re-

juvenation uid into a cable under con-

stant pressure. This process increases

the dialectric strength of the cable and

returns its performance to a like-new

condition. Rejuvenated cables can thenbe used for many more decades, avoid-

ing declining reliability issues and post-

poning investment in expensive cable-

replacement projects until much later.

Many medium-voltage cables that

were laid in the 1970s and 1980s are

reaching the end of their service life. To

prevent any outages in the medium-volt-

age grid, these older cables are usually

replaced before the end of their service

life. Siemens new cable-reconditioning

service offers an alternative that can be

substantially more cost-effective than re-

placing medium-voltage cables.

During the Califex process, the aging

cable is tted with an adapter for inject-

ing the uid. Drawn from reservoir-type

containers, the uid is injected into the

empty space inside the cable wires until

it emerges from the other end. Then the

cable is re-energized immediately. With-

in about seven days, the silicon-based liq-

uid mixture diffuses into the cable insu-lation, and the dielectric strength of the

cable increases to a like-new condition.

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Greater Springfield Reliability ProjectImproves Reliability in Southern New England

The Greater Springeld Reliability Project (GSRP) amajor transmission upgrade to improve reliability in southernNew England (U.S.) is now complete. Connecticut Light& Power and Western Massachusetts Electric Co. (WMECo)

nished the project both on time and under budget, despitechallenging storms that included Superstorm Sandy and theblizzard of 2013.

As electricity demand continues to grow, a strong, reliabletransmission system is essential to meeting our customersenergy needs and the regions economic health, said Laurie

Foley, vice president of Transmission Projects, Engineering &Maintenance at Northeast Utilities, parent company of CL&Pand WMECo. We are very grateful for the cooperation andpatience of our customers and neighbors, as well as state and

local ofcials, who worked closely with us during this impor-tant reliability upgrade. With their support, we were able tomaintain an aggressive construction schedule while overcom-ing severe weather events and challenging terrain.

This transmission upgrade improves the ow of power inand around the greater Springeld/north-central Connecti-

cut area while connecting customers toless expensive, more efcient generation.The project upgraded 39 miles (63 km)of transmission lines on an existing right-of-way between Ludlow, Massachusetts,

and Bloomeld, Connecticut, with morethan 600 new structures, and 13 new orrebuilt substations and switching stations.The project cost was estimated at US$718million, but CL&P and WMECo came inmore than $40 million below that esti-mate. In the rst year of service alone, thisproject will add more than $13 million tolocal municipal tax revenues in Connecti-cut and western Massachusetts.

Although construction was carried outduring a period of historic storms, the pace

of line work was accelerated during favor-able weather conditions, which helpedincrease productivity and decrease costs.

Additional project costs were saved by con-tracting early with highly skilled contrac-tors and making carefully timed purchasesof commodities that included steel andcopper products. The project also broughtenvironmental benets to the towns ittraversed with enhancements to existing

wetlands, protection of farmland and criti-cal wildlife habitat. In addition, the com-panies used helicopters to string the newlines, which further reduced impacts tosensitive areas along the right-of-way andsped up the construction schedule.

GSRP is just one of the projects asso-ciated with the New England East-WestSolution (NEEWS). Northeast Utilities ispreparing to break ground on anotherNEEWS project, the Interstate ReliabilityProject, in eastern Connecticut. Together,these projects strengthen the reliability of

the power grid within the regional trans-mission system by ensuring that nationaland regional reliability standards are met.

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ployees are an integral resource, which requires creativity andinnovation. The processes of the past generations are not assuccessful today.

3. Consider characteristics. Utilities are challenged with nd-ing candidates with the physical strength to do line work as

well as the proper attitude and work ethic. Questions of anapplicants teamwork nature, their ability to use sound judg-

ment or make reasonable decisions are all traits instrumentalin the long-term success of an applicant. They must be able toserve customers, and their personalities must be compatibleto perform as a safe and productive team member with a crew

who they may work with over the next 25 years.4. Rules and regulations. Lastly as utilities have different

and diverse work management guidelines, the conferencepromotes the network of discussions concerning hiring regu-lations, working within union contract guidelines, and reten-tion innovations.

Sharing Strategies

While workforce management has been a core topic ofdiscussion at TDMM conferences over the last few years, theassociation also addresses such issues as safety, emergency re-sponse and asset management.

Back in 1976, the association rst began allowing utilitiesto share information about their operation and maintenancemethods and processes. Nearly 40 years later, the mission isstill the same: to provide a platform for the networking andsharing of information for utility eld managers across North

America. The conference creates an opportunity for manag-ers and supervisors to meet and network with their peers oncurrent issues.

As utility managers continue to wrangle with issues of re-cruitment and retention, they will also continue to share strat-egies and help train the next group of linemen who will keepthe lights on for many years to come.

George Patrick ([email protected]) is

the executive director of the Transmission & Distribution

Maintenance Management Association and serves as the

supervisor of transmission lines for Santee Cooper in Moncks

Corner, South Carolina.

Editors note: The 2014 TDMM conference will be Sept. 29Oct. 3, 2014, in Los Angeles, California. It will be hosted by

the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. For more

information, visit www.tdmm.com.

INDUSTRYReport

Training and Retaining Future LinemenBy George Patrick, Transmission & Distribution Maintenance Management Association

Electric utilities face the same challenge time and timeagain. To counteract the wave of retirements, compa-nies bring in a new crop of recruits, only to lose the

candidates within the rst few months of training.To help companies recruit, train and retain competent and

qualied candidates, the Transmission & Distribution Mainte-nance Management Association (TDMM) is empowering util-

ity eld managers to share their best practices. Once a year,utility leaders meet at a at a weeklong conference to swap in-formation on innovative hiring techniques and the successesand failures of recruiting. They also learn about the availabil-ity of training and development programs as well as linemenscolleges that prepare individuals for entry-level positions.

Recruiting and Retaining LinemenBecause line work is physically demanding, only certain

individuals are cut out to do the job. To be a lineman, an in-dividual must be able to withstand severe-weather conditions,put in long work hours and be capable of performing hard

physical labor. At the TDMM conferences, utility managersshare their strategies for nding these candidates, trainingthem and transforming apprentices into future leaders for theelectric utility industry. Here are some ways that utilities aresuccessfully recruiting and retaining the next generation ofline workers.

1. Put applicants to the test. Rather than investing valuabletime and resources into candidates who may not succeed inline work, some utilities are pre-screening applicants and test-ing their skills. For example, if a utility has 10 openings for newapprentices but 100 applicants, it will bring all of them in for

written tests and task- oriented performance tests. The writtentests evaluate their reading and comprehension skills, whilethe performance tests evaluate their physical traits and abili-ties. Performance tests may include using an extendo hot stick,using channel locks or side cutters, or putting on a set of hooksand using 100% fall arrest to climb 5 ft to 10 ft up a woodenpole. The utility also will also have an operator use a buckettruck to determine if the applicant has a fear of heights.

2. Hire temporary workers. Another way utilities are solvingthe workforce problem is by working with a temporary laboragency and bringing applicants in to work on a six-monthtemporary contract position. These individuals work along-

side the line crews so they can see rst-hand what the actualwork environment is like before fully committing to a careeras a lineman. For managers and supervisors responsible forthe maintenance and reliability of their electrical systems, em-
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CHARACTERSwithCharacter

Building Blocks

Veronica Rivero Gorrin,Worcester Polytechnic Institute

ByJames R. Dukart, Contributing Writer

As a child, Veronica Rivero Gorrin always loved playingwith Legos. Today, speaking from a settlement villagein South Africa, Rivero Gorrin is using that childhoodfascination with snap-together plastic building blocks to as-semble a promising career as a builder of everything from an

electrical substation to a community.Rivero Gorrin, born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela,studies architectural engineering at Worcester PolytechnicInstitute (WPI) in Massachusetts. She currently serves as astudent ambassador in the schools National Grid Engineer-ing Ambassador Program, sponsored by National Grid andrun by WPI. The Ambassador Programs stated goal is to havestudents engage a variety of audiences in the excitement ofengineering. Her ambassador program nickname ThePassionate becomes rather evident as she talks about hereducational experiences, including internships among inner-city kids in Worcester last summer and late last year in settle-

ment villages in South Africa.We worked in the informal settlements just outside of

Cape Town, Rivero Gorrin begins, noting that she started inthe Stranfontein area in a settlement called 7deLann and thenmoved to another named Flamingo Crescent. Many of thepeople in these settlements live in shacks with roofs that leakand encounter venomous snakes on a regular basis; it can be abad situation. We worked on both infrastructure and social de-

velopment. We didnt just go in and build things and leave. Weengaged with the community leaders to improve living condi-tions in any way we could.

One of the things Rivero Gorrin did was to interview thosenew to the settlement and create a local database to serve asa repository of skills and experience for the new communityto use. Someone here is a builder, there a painter, she notes.Then we might have someone who can be in charge of garden-ing. We can turn around and say, here is someone who can helpin the schools, here is someone who can help build buildings.

Following her six-week South African ambassadorship,Rivero Gorrin will return to WPI to nish her architecturalengineering degree, with a focus on sustainable construction.To scratch both her building and travel itches, she has done in-ternships in the U.S. and Venezuela, is vice president of WPIs

Architectural Engineering Institute, secretary of WPIs Societyof Hispanic Engineers and has helped build houses for Habitatfor Humanity in Worcester over spring break. She also servesas building chair for the WPI chapter of Habitat for Humanity.

There is a mechanical and structural side to our studies,and I am on the structural side, Rivero Gorrin comments.We look at lighting, acoustics, HVAC, re protection, and thecivil and legal aspects of engineering. There are a lot of extra-curricular activities, too. You dont always learn just inside the

class but outside of it, too.Rivero Gorrin recalls an internship offered by Delta Air-lines through the Society of Hispanic Engineers. They want-ed an intern to help design the interior of an airplane, sherecalls. I never thought of that as an architectural challenge,but when you think about it, a plane can be looked at as a minibuilding that can y.

For now, Rivero Gorrin is happy to jump into mini build-ings that can y as she continues her globetrotting ways, atrait and habit she picked up as a child, accompanying herparents throughout South America on the dog show circuit.

My family was involved in dog shows, Rivero Gorrin states.

My parents started out breeding boxers, and I brought pugsand fox terriers into the family. Her father owns a companythat distributes products for Purina, a multinational pet foodcompany, and for a time, her mother was heavily involved inthe Federacin Canina de Venezuela. Her aunt in Venezuelais a professional dog handler. The family would travel to about10 or 12 dog shows per year, Rivero Gorrin recalls, not just in

Venezuela but throughout Brazil, Chile, Argentina and muchof the rest of Latin America. Thats what motivated me totravel and eventually want to come to the U.S. for school, sheexplains. Traveling so much when I was younger boosted mycondence and made me really want to see the world.

As a student and international student ambassador, RiveroGorrin does not have a dog with her in Massachusetts, but

when home in Venezuela for holiday or summer breaks, hasthree dogs she loves to play with.

Her short-term goals are to nish her degree, continue tobe as involved in extracurricular activities as she can and landan electrical engineering job, preferably in North Americaor Europe. A longer-term goal is to earn a masters degree insustainable construction and return to Venezuela to practicethere, perhaps someday running her own consulting business.I want to help people and help build things, she states.

Its not hard to picture that when Rivero Gorrin gets to thatpoint, shed be doing it with a dog or two at her feet, and per-haps even a set of Legos on a nearby windowsill as commemo-rative inspiration.

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uilt in the early 1970s, Pacic Gas and Electric Co.s(PG&Es) San Ramon Technical Center is dedicatedto conducting cutting-edge smart grid research.The work being done there, along with the utilitys

experience as an early adopter of the smart grid, has providedthe utilitys customers with enhanced safety and reliability,more insight into energy use and improved customer service.

The San Ramon, California, U.S., facility serves as home tomore than 120 engineers, scientists and technicians commit-ted to providing value for the utilitys customers. They provideengineering and testing services for the utilitys power genera-tion, electric operations, gas operations and customer carelines of business, and serve as PG&Es one-stop engineeringservices shop for the more than 2,500 incident investigations,dam inspections, failure analyses and nondestructive equip-ment examinations that occur every year at PG&E.

The facilitys high-voltage dome, perhaps its most recogniz-able landmark, is used to simulate events and aid in incidentinvestigations. It has the ability to generate up to 720,000 V

with full fog chamber capability. Featured on MythBusters,a Discovery Channel TV show, the facility also has its own sub-station that feeds a high current testing laboratory that can

generate up to 80,000 A of fault current. A chemistry lab, ma-terials science lab, instrument calibration facility and severalstrengths labs are also on site to test, pull or break every typeof wire, pipe or pole imaginable.

Smart Grid LabsAs part of PG&Es ongoing implementation of the smart

grid, the newest and most exciting labs at the facilityare dedicated to performing end-to-end testing of smart gridtechnology before it is launched in the eld. To ensure valuefor the utilitys customers and a smooth technological roll-out of any component, all equipment and control systems arerigorously tested before being piloted and deployed onto thegrid to determine if they perform as advertised. The facilityalso provides technical feedback to manufacturers to helpthem rene their products to ensure plug-and-play value for

the marketplace. These test labs have proven invaluable to theutility in evaluating components and determining deploymentstrategies.

Having a series of labs with interconnected capabilitiesgives PG&E a unique and exciting platform for smart gridtesting. The utility has the capability to create a test, or simu-

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prototyping and proof of conceptfor Pacific Gas and Electric deployments.By David Bradley and Ryan Hanley, Pacic Gas and Electric Co.

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lation, system from beyond the customer meter to a second-ary system, and up to the impacts on the distribution system.The utility also has the ability to replicate and simulate thesmart meter system, supervisory control and data acquisition(SCADA) system and communication system.

Distribution Test YardIn late 2012, PG&E completed construction of its distribu-

tion test yard. This lab the San Ramon facilitys largest

boasts a three-circuit, three-phase simu-lation test facility that can be energizedat 480 V or 21 kV. The test yard wasouttted with an operable supervisorycontrol and data acquisition (SCADA)control and communications system,

as well as PG&Es SmartMeter networkwith additional integrations plannedfor the future. This distribution yard isprimarily used to conduct operationaltesting as well as simulations for equip-ment and operating systems.

The test yards rst major opera-tional success was the extensive analysisand deployment of a self-healing faultlocation, isolation and service restora-tion (FLISR) system. Testing this equip-

ment involved a combination of external current/power sup-plies with a LabVIEW control system that simulated severalreal-world scenarios to ensure the FLISR systems met PG&Esneeds. The utility rigorously tested systems from a variety ofdifferent manufacturers throughout the project to conrm

which system performed best for PG&Es distribution grid.The selected FLISR system has already been deployed on

more than 437 circuits throughout PG&Es service area ofcentral and northern California, which has resulted, so far, in

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fewer customer outage minutes and fewer sustained customerinterruptions.

Modular GenerationPG&E is currently involved in a partnership project for

anti-islanding testing using a real-time digital simulator to

model distribution loading proles. A modular generation testfacility, originally constructed to test distributed generationtechnologies, also has the ability to test batteries of varyingtechnologies, fuel cells, engine gen sets and ywheel storage,along with numerous residential and com-mercial range inverters simultaneously.

This lab also supports PG&E and itscustomers by evaluating emerging elec-tric eet technology and testing electric

vehicle charging technologies. Recently,the facility successfully built and tested

the U.S.s rst electric vehicle fast char-ger by conducting vehicle grid tests anddemonstrations.

Next door to this facility, the lab alsohouses a distribution generation test yard

where a number of large industrial-sizedinverters, ranging from 500 kW up to1 MW, can be tested using a 2,500-kVAdistribution transformer connected di-rectly to the grid to provide the powersource.

Distribution TechnologyOperations Center

PG&Es distribution technology oper-ations center (DTOC) is focused primar-ily on identifying and testing promisingtechnologies for potential integrationinto the utilitys distribution operations,especially its new distribution controlcenters. PG&E is in the process of inte-grating its existing 13 local distributioncontrol centers into three regional, state-of-the-art centers.

The new centers will enhance electricreliability for the utilitys customers whileproviding system operators with the capa-bility to shift workload between the facili-ties, if additional support is needed, suchas during a storm or a natural disaster. Toensure a smooth rollout of the technol-ogy used in PG&Es new control centers,the DTOC has been outtted with manyof the capabilities of a real control center.

The DTOC setup includes two proto-

type operator consoles, PG&Es recentlyupgraded distribution management sys-tem (DMS), SCADA interface and con-trols, geospatial information system (GIS)

tools and dispatch capability, and it interfaces with the utilitysSmartMeter advanced metering infrastructure system. Accessto the full suite of operator technology tools enables end-to-end testing and demonstration of new technologies in a realis-tic operational test environment.

The DTOC is operationally tied to the distribution test

yard and planned for integration with other smart grid labsat the San Ramon facility in the future. The DTOC also hasfacilitated valuable learning and training opportunities forboth the utility and its system operators. The operators can

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learn the new technology they will be using in the new controlcenters in a risk-free environment, and then suggest changesto make the software and systems more effective.

The DTOC also has started to test next-generation smartgrid technologies. PG&E recently launched three distribution-focused smart grid pilot projects volt/volt-ampere-reactiveoptimization (VVO) , line sensors, and fault detection and lo-cation all of which will be incorporated into the DTOC fortesting. Integrating testing into the DTOC enables PG&E totest these smart grid technologies end to end before rollingthem out systemwide.

Smart Grid CommunicationsAnother aspect critical to ensuring the value of smart grid

components for the utilitys customers is the facilitys smartgrid communications lab. This lab is home to a radio-frequen-cy test lab designed to test critical SmartMeter communica-tions components, including the network that interfaces with

the utility and the network that can interact with the homearea network (HAN) devices in customers homes and busi-nesses. The communications lab supports testing a numberof future services, such as providing enhanced information tosupport grid operations, providing customers with informa-tion about their solar rooftop systems and enabling demandmanagement options through HAN devices.

Synchrophasor Proof of ConceptLast, but certainly not least, is the utilitys synchrophasor

proof-of-concept (POC) lab. This lab was constructed to sup-

port the Western Interconnection synchrophasor program(WISP), funded by the Department of Energys AmericanRecovery and Reinvestment Act. The WISP involves nine orga-nizations and numerous other stakeholders across the westernUnited States.

The POC center includes a control room that has beenbuilt with both simulation and real-world control capabilityto evaluate equipment and technologies in a controlled test

When completed, PG&E's new distribution control will integrate smartgrid technology that will give operators more real-time visibility intothe grid.
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environment. As part of theWISP, PG&E installed phasormeasurement units (PMUs)in more than 20 of its key sub-stations and used the POC labas the control room for system

design, testing and applica-tions development.

Upcoming ProjectsRecently, the utility re-

ceived approval to move for-ward on a four-year smart gridpilot project and a number ofnew technology demonstra-tion projects; it will be focusedon deploying numerous proj-

ects after lab testing has beencompleted. Several of the pro-posed projects will be testedrigorously at the San RamonTechnical Center labs.

The largest of the newly approved projects is the V VO proj-ect. VVO involves improving customer energy efciency, gridloss reduction and integration of distributed solar photovol-taic generation systems into the utilitys distribution system.PG&E has more connected photovoltaic systems than any util-ity in the U.S. The utility will be testing VVO systems fromnumerous vendors at its San Ramon facility to determine the

system that best ts the needs of its grid.As part of this work, the distribution test yard will be used

to test eld equipment and automation. The DTOC will testthe integration and operation of the VVO application inPG&Es DMS and control rooms. The project has the poten-tial to provide signicant value to PG&Es customers, but it iscritical to ensure the equipment performs as advertised and isinteroperable with existing infrastructure before nal systemsare rolled out into the eld, even for a pilot test.

The lab also will be performing extensive testing of distri-bution line sensors. Again, this will involve all the smart gridtests referred to previously, but it also will include the use of

the labs high current testing capability. Both of these projectsare in the planning and data-gathering stages.

At the end of the day, this facility has been instrumental inensuring PG&Es customers receive the safest, most reliableand affordable service possible.

David A. Bradley ([email protected]) is the manager of tech-

nology application for Pacific Gas and Electric Co.s appliedtechnology services section. He is responsible for electrical

testing, incident analysis and technology performance test-

ing associated with PG&Es utility system. He has more than 33

years of experience as a distribution and transmission engineer,

supervisor and manager. Bradley holds a BSEE degree from the

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City,

South Dakota, U.S., and is a registered professional engineer in

the state of California.

Ryan Hanley ([email protected])is the manager of smart grid

technology and integration for Pacific Gas and Electric Co.s

electric distribution operations organization. He is responsible

for assessing, testing and rolling out promising distribution

operations technologies for integration into PG&Es operations,

as well as managing PG&Es distribution technology operations

center. Hanley holds a BSCE degree from Johns Hopkins Uni-

versity, a masters degree in structural engineering from Trinity

College Dublin and a MBA degree from UC Berkeley.

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Terry Boston:

Terry Boston may be one of the most influentialpeople in the energy world today. His expertise

and innovative outlook have been acknowledgedwith awards and accolades from industry groups

and publications, but his success was bornin humble beginnings.

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By Pamela Kufahl, Contributing Writer

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erry Boston has worked shoulder-to-shoulder withenergy leaders around the world, traveling to France,South Africa, China, South Korea and other coun-tries. He has explained complex energy issues to

White House staff and U.S. Congress members. He has estab-lished business relationships with several U.S. governors andpublic utility commissioners. He has testied before the Fed-eral Energy Regulatory Commission and served on boards forgroups such as the IEEE, CIGR, the Association of EdisonIlluminating Companies, the North American Electric Reli-ability Council and the Very Large Power Grid Operators ofthe World, better known as GO15. And now he leads one ofthe premier regional transmission organizations (RTOs) inthe United States, the PJM Interconnection, Valley Forge,Pennsylvania, U.S.

He earned his status in the industry through planning,hard work and relationship building. These qualities servedhim well and garnered him the respect of those he worked

with as he rose through the ranks at Tennessee Valley Author-ity (TVA), Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S., which he joined in 1972as a project engineer after earning an engineering degree atTennessee Technological University.

Boston took the TVA job after being shown the controlroom under construction there. It was wow! Boston said witha still noticeable Tennessee accent. Two stories underground,designed for anything other than a direct nuclear attack and

with state-of-the-art computing power. I thought, This is cut-

ting edge.During his 35 years at TVA, he rose to executive vice presi-

dent of power system operations, then left in 2008 to becomepresident and CEO of PJM Interconnection. PJM controls65,556 miles (105,502 km) of transmission lines serving 61million people in 13 states and the District of Columbia, man-ages 186,000 MW of generation (including 33 nuclear gener-ating units) and coordinates the movement of US$100 mil-lion per day in wholesale electricity transactions, all of whichmakes it one of the largest RTOs in the world and puts it inthe elite GO15 group of grid operators, of which Boston waspresident in 2013.

PJM has grown even more since Boston became presidentand CEO in 2008. He has expanded PJMs total market from$26.7 billion to $35.9 billion, has increased PJMs membercompanies from 500 to 879 and has received approval formore than $15 billion of new transmission.

However, Bostons story is really a story of teams workingtogether to make a difference, and Terrys accomplishmentsand awards are but an outward view of an inner re and truecompassion. Wherever Boston has worked, he expected andawarded excellence.

If you ever worked around Terry, and he saw you were

competent in something, he never forgot that, said Ron Rog-ers, who worked with Boston in TVAs regional operation andtransmission O&M group. Even if 20 years had passed, Bos-ton would remember how someone impressed him and would

help them advance if he thought they could help TVA.That was something special about him, Rogers said. A lot

of people advanced based on Terrys recollection of how theyhad done in other areas.

David Hall, a childhood friend of Bostons who roomedwith him at Tennessee Tech and also became an engineer atTVA, worked for Bostons group at one point in his career, buthe never felt he got the job because of his friendship with Terry.

Terry would always help a friend, but he would want hisgroup to be successful, Hall said. So when Terry made deci-sions like that, he made them so his group could be successful,not just to help friends.

Boston enjoys helping to develop the people around him,taking great pride in that both TVA and PJM offer assistanceto employees getting advanced degrees.

As I looked to build a solid team and to advance the orga-nization, I was always looking for the brightest and best, andhiring them and giving them a chance to develop and producenew ideas, Boston said.

Man with a FutureBostons values were instilled in him while growing up on a

farm near Nashville, Tennessee, with a father who died whenBoston was 10 years old, a mother who worked full time tomake ends meet and grandparents who needed their 14-year-old grandson to drive them to doctors appointments. Boston

worked on the family farm bringing in the crops. At 14, he

got his rst government contract with the city, mowing alongstreets with the family farm tractor. He worked construction

jobs as a carpenter and a later as a eld engineer during thesummer while attend

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