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May 7, 2012

I found out about a cool extra bonus today. There is a trolly that runs up and down International Drive going past most of the conference hotels around the convention center. If you take the north route the last stop is an outlet mall. If you take the ...

Gene Wolf Blog

We went south and hit that mall. It had more stores than possible to visit in one trip. And the great thing about the trolly is the price. It is $1.25 per trip. If you are a senior it is 25 cents! That sure beats a cab or renting a car. It is clean, fast, and very nice.

It even stops at Sea World if you would like to spend some time there.

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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.