|  | | | SLH DESIGN INC. James R. Harries - PE Experience in Power Quality and Inductive Coordination - James R. Harries – PE, lead Power Quality investigator for the Bonneville Power
Administration, Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington for 10 years, 1994-2003. Problems solved for numerous companies with variable speed motor drives, wood processing and paper mills, arc furnaces, noisy telephones, and damage from harmonics.
- Past President of the Power Quality Service Center, www.pqsc.org (A great source of information). Author of the latest booklet on Distributed Generation Power Quality Guide.
- Member of the IEEE 519 Committee, currently revising the standard for customer – utility interface,
- Member of the IEEE P1543 flicker Work Group,
- Member of the IEEE Wire Line committee.
- Coordinator of the NW Inductive Coordination Committee annual meeting bringing together telecommunication specialists and Utility engineers.
- Past co-chairman of the EPRI PQA meeting, and have served as Industry Advisor on several EPRI projects.
- Considerable experience with large electro-process industries and with the semiconductor industry.
- Extensive experience with Hewlett Packard, Dranetz-BMI, Reliable Power Meters, and Fluke power quality monitoring equipment, and use of Electrotek, EPRI, and Kreiss-Johnson software.
- Have assisted customers with solutions such as static filters, active filters, static var devices, statcom and dynamic voltage restoration.
- In addition to helping customers with all manner of power quality problems, I am experienced in modeling and solving problems on the transmission system from standing waves and harmonics.
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Classes offered on power quality and distributed generation to utility, customers, and academic audiences. Recent lectures have been given at BPA and at the University of Washington
- Numerous papers published on Power Quality, Inductive Coordination, and related matters. Of particular interest is Standing Waves on Power Lines.
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