Electrical Substation Technologies Live Online Forum April 2025

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Focus Agenda Presenters

April 30, 2025

Live online event hosted by The Electricity Forum.

The focus of our Electrical Substation Live Online Forum will be substation reliability, security and stability. The changing environment in the energy sector creates a need for substation system operators to be able to robustly evaluate the impact that possible measures have on the dependability of supply of their networks. Electrical substations are is considered an important part of the power grid, and this has gained significant focus for electrical power system planners and operators to improve reliability. Our FREE Live Online Forum is a great way to learn from leading Electrical Substation professionals who are speaking on subjects about current or future technologies for reliable power substations.

45 minutes presentation includes 10 minutes of Q&A.

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm

Critter Guard

It's NOT if, but WHEN!
Squirrels and other "critters" are the #1 cause of preventable power outages for utilities. Chances are – it will happen to you. This presentation will explore Critter Guard's approach to preventing these animal outages.

1:45 pm - 2:30 pm

PSI (T&R Test Equipment)
The presentation is a brief introduction to T&R Test Equipment Ltd, followed by a look at relays and how they fit into a protection scheme and how they are tested with a look at a flexible test solution from T&R Test Equipment Ltd in the form of the New 50ADM-P Relay SCITS Test set.How the new tester is an ideal solution for relay testing both Mechanical and Digital Relays.

2:30 pm - 3:15 pm

Zensol

3:15 pm - 4:00 pm

SDT Ultrasound Solutions

John Sims

President & Owner

Critter Guard

John is the president and owner of Critter Guard. He has led and/or managed product development and global sales & operations management teams in energy and process industry for more than 30 years. He holds a bachelor of science in chemical engineering from Mizzou. He resides in the Wichita, KS area.

Gary Biggs

Commercial & Sales Director

T&R Test Equipment

Gary Biggs has worked in the testing industry since 1993 starting as a distributor selling a wide range of test instrumentation. In 2017, he came to T&R Test equipment Ltd as the Commercial and Sales Director.

Dr. Fouad Brikci

President

Zensol Automation, Inc.

Fouad Brikci obtained a Doctorate in Electronics in 1977 and a master's degree in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Automation in 1975 both from the University of Bordeaux, France. During his 40 years and more of experience, he was a lecturer at the Ecole Polytechnique in Algiers, Algeria and a researcher at CNRS-LAAS, Toulouse, France. He is currently the President of Zensol Automation, Inc., a company founded in 1990 and located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Zensol is a world leader in the field of acoustic diagnostics for circuit breakers and on-line tap changers (OLTC). Zensol also has extensive expertise in conventional maintenance testing applied to high-voltage circuit breakers.

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