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Position: Principal Consultant
Year Joined Firm: 2008
Power Industry Years: 18
Education: B.S.E., Electrical Instrumentation and Control Concentration, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Expertise: Utility communications, substation automation and control, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Energy Management Systems (EMS), IEC 61850, and teleprotection applications |
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Brian Smith joined EnerNex in 2008 as a Utility Communication Systems Engineer on the Smart Grid Engineering team. He has over 18 years of experience in the electric utility field and his areas of expertise include substation automation, utility communications, SCADA/EMS systems, and teleprotection applications. In addition, he has experience with a range of communications and protocol technologies.
Prior to joining EnerNex, Brian was employed by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) where he worked in the Telecommunication Projects group within the utility’s transmission organization. His work involved planning and engineering responsibilities for telecommunications, SCADA/ EMS, teleprotection, and substation automation systems supporting the real time operation of TVA’s transmission and generation resources.
While at TVA, Brian was one of the chief architects for TVA’s PowerWAN which is a wide-area IP-communications network supporting real time power system operations, as well as serving as technical lead responsible for telecommunications, teleprotection, and SCADA/telecontrol applications for TVA’s Bradley 500kV substation project which is one of the first multi-relay vendor projects to implement the full suite of IEC 61850.
He was technical specialist for TVA power-line carrier, teleprotection, and SCADA applications at substation and generating plant switchyard facilities. He was technical lead responsible for telecommunications facilities on numerous construction projects involving TVA’s transmission facilities ranging from 46kV up to 500kV, as well as a team member supporting the project to upgrade the TVA SCADA and EMS systems which included replacement of all existing remote terminal Units (RTU) including replacement, consolidation, and relocation of five regional SCADA master stations and TVA’s EMS system.
His work at TVA also included experience with the various systems supporting real time operations including transport systems, such as, SONET and asynchronous fiber optic systems, microwave radio systems, multiple address radio systems, land line and wireless commercial service providers, GPS time and frequency instruments, high voltage isolation systems supporting telephone company interfaces into substation facilities, and dc power systems supporting telecommunications facilities.
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