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Items of Interest

• October 27, 2011 - PPE was pleased to host a meeting with Dr. Chul-Hwan Kim from Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul Korea, Mr. Jong-Hyuk Lee assistant director at Korea Power eXchange, and protection engineers from the Tennessee Valley Authority.  The core discussion centered around automatic reclosing practices at the transmission level as Dr. Kim and Mr. Lee are investigating changes to the reclosing practices in the country.

          The meeting was very productive and beneficial. 

• August 2011 - Charlie Sufana joins PPE as a Principal Consultant.  Charlie brings a wealth of experience with him including decades at Commonwealth Edison in Chicago.  Charlie is a member of the IEEE PSRC and has taught many classes on power system protection and analysis.  PPE is very happy to have Charlie on our team!
• Meyer Kao chairing IEEE PSRC Line Protection working group D3 -  "Considerations for Choice of Polarizing Methods for Transmission Line Directional Ground Elements."  More information at http://pes-psrc.org 
• Russ Patterson is now chairman of the IEEE PSRC Line Protection subcommittee.   More information at http://pes-psrc.org