Power Systems Electrical Engineer Expert Witness

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Mr. Rich is an electrical engineer with 40 years of experience in all aspects of electric power system design, installation, operation, and maintenance. His expertise includes distribution, sub-transmission, and transmission systems upwards to 500 kV and generation and industrial plant distribution systems of 34.5 kV down to 480 VAC. Mr. Rich previously led project teams in the development of electrical substation and other large electrical EPC projects. In addition, he held leadership positions at national engineering and Engineer-Procure-Construct (EPC) firms that specialized in protection and control and acted as a sales/application engineer to support advanced relaying, metering, and communication equipment and systems. Mr. Rich has worked internationally and has been a project manager and lead engineer on many electric air and gas insulated substations and other specialized power projects such as static var compensator, cycloconverter, series compensation, harmonic filters, battery energy storage systems, microgrid, and generation projects of many technologies. His clients include large municipal and investor-owned utilities, generation and transmission cooperatives, independent power producers, large industrials, contractors, and consultants. Mr. Rich’s electrical expert services focus on electrical power systems and equipment. He has authored formal expert reports and has given arbitration testimony. Mr. Rich speaks on technical subjects, professional development, and ethics in various national and regional settings. Mr. Rich graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mississippi. He is licensed in 29 states of the United States. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society, and a member of NSPE and the Mississippi Engineering Society.