Switchgear Committee
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This is where it all happens! Anyone interested in learning more about the Switchgear Committee and helping advance the Committee’s work is welcome to attend. Join industry leaders to discuss the treatment of matters in which the dominant factors are the design, construction, and operation of devices or assembled gear to establish, interrupt, or change connections in any electric circuit under normal or abnormal conditions.
Who We Are
The IEEE PES Switchgear Committee discusses the treatment of matters in which the dominant factors are the design, construction, and operation of devices or assembled gear to establish, interrupt, or change connections in any electric circuit under normal or abnormal conditions.
Committee Scope
Treatment of matters in which the dominant factors are the design, construction, and operation of devices or assembled gear to establish, interrupt, or change connections in any electric circuit under normal or abnormal conditions, including treatment of the following:
- Automatic reclosers & sectionalizers
- Current limiting devices
- Fuses & cutouts
- Gas-insulated switchgear
- Insulation, insulators, & hardware for switchgear
- Metal-enclosed buses & all buses included in switchgear assemblies
- Power circuit breakers
- Switches, including pad-mounted switches
- Switchgear assemblies
- Switchgear devices
Officers
Committee Chair
Doug Edwards, Chair,
Siemens Industry, Inc.
Vice Chair
Donnie Swing
Powell Industries
Secretary/Treasurer
John Webb
ABB, Inc.
Immediate Past Chair
Keith Flowers
Siemens Industry, Inc.
Technical Committee Program Coordinator
Tony Ricciuti
Eaton
Meetings Coordinator
Doug Edwards
Siemens Industry, Inc.
Subcommittees
High Voltage Circuit Breakers Subcommittee
Scope: Treatment of all matters relating to high voltage power circuit breakers (above 1000 Volts AC and 3200 Volts DC).
Carl Schuetz
American Transmission Company
Web Page: https://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/switchgear/subcommittees/hvcb/HVCB.html
IEEE SA Program Manager: Jen Santulli
High Voltage Fuses Subcommittee
Scope: Treatment of all matters relating to fuses above 1000 Volts AC.
Sterlin Cochran, Chair
G&W Electric Co.
Web Page: https://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/switchgear/subcommittees/hvf/HVF.html
IEEE SA Program Manager: Jen Santulli
High Voltage Switches Subcommittee
Scope: Treatment of all matters relating to indoor and outdoor switches and interrupters rated above 1000 V ac and 3200 V dc except for the following devices:
- Distribution cutouts.
- Switches used in metal-enclosed and pad-mounted switchgear.
- Separable insulated connectors.
- Circuit-breakers, circuit-switchers, sectionalizers and reclosers.
- Gas-insulated switchgear.
- Capacitor switches.
- Switches rated 38 kV ac and below used on distribution systems except air insulated overhead applications.
- Fuses equipped with integral switches.
Web Page: https://cmte.ieee.org/pes-substations/sci0/
IEEE SA Program Manager: Jen Santulli
Low Voltage Switchgear Devices Subcommittee
Scope: Treatment of all matters relating to low voltage devices (1000 volts ac nominal and below, 3200 volts dc and below), such as low voltage power circuit breakers, fusible switching devices, and other low voltage power switching devices, except molded case circuit breakers and network protectors, for use in switchgear assemblies or in individual enclosures for separate mounting.
Web Page: https://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/switchgear/subcommittees/lvsd/LVSD.html
IEEE SA Program Manager: Jen Santulli
Reclosers and Other Distribution Equipment Subcommittee
Scope: Treatment of all matters relating to distribution switching and overcurrent protective equipment, including reclosers, sectionalizers, fault interrupters, capacitor switches, pad-mounted gear, and submersible gear; except for high voltage fuses and high voltage overhead air switches.
Frank DeCesaro, Chair
Consultant
Web Page: https://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/switchgear/subcommittees/rode/RODE.html
IEEE SA Program Manager: Jen Santulli
Switchgear Assemblies Subcommittee
Scope: Treatment of all matters relating to Switchgear Assemblies.
Web Page: https://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/switchgear/subcommittees/sa/SA.html
IEEE SA Program Manager: Jen Santulli
Technology & Innovation Subcommittee
Scope: Treatment of all matters relating to new Technologies and Innovations applicable to the Scope of the Switchgear Committee. This includes facilitating and conducting research, developing technical reports, and making recommendations for further advancement of IEEE switchgear standards.
NOTE: This subcommittee is not chartered to write standards
Alex Cochran, Chair
G&W Electric Co.
Web Page: https://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/switchgear/subcommittees/ti/ti.html
IEEE SA Program Manager: Jen Santulli
Upcoming Events
- Fall 2024 Committee Meeting
13-17 October, 2024
Omni Oklahoma City Hotel
Oklahoma City, OK
Resources
- Download the Switchgear Committee Flyer [PDF 983KB]
- Download the Switchgear Committee O&P Manual [PDF]
Most Recent Annual Report
- 2023 [PDF 744KB]