Meghan Calabro

MEGHAN CALABRO, PE, is an electrical engineer and assistant department manager in the Burns & McDonnell Transmission & Distribution Group. She has planned, designed and overseen installation of Enterprise Meter Data Management projects, along other smart system improvements that are yielding valuable data for utility distribution system operations. For example, she has served as a senior consultant for the KCP&L SmartGrid Demonstration Project, a $58 million Department of Energy-funded pilot that has affected 14,000 customers in the urban core of Kansas City, Missouri. Meghan participates in a number of working groups within the T&D industry, focusing on distribution grid management and incorporating emerging standards such as IEC 61850 and IEC 61968-9.