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Everying is Huge

May 6, 2012

Have you ever seen a 360 degree movie? It was fantastic. You stand in the middle of a large room and can turn in any direction and see everything around it. It was in the Chinese section of Epcot. What a great way to get the feel of a country from so ...

Gene Wolf Blog

China has set records for thousands of years. There were 700,000 workers laboring on the Emperor's tomb. They left thousands of terracotta warriors to guard him. But that is old history. I just wrote a series of article on HVDC and China is the place to go to see 800kV or even 1000kV equipment. I am going to look for more information about this technology next week.

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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.