Lord Consulting

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Trevor Lord is currently Managing Director of both LORD Consulting and AVO New Zealand. Holding a Masters Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Canterbury, NZ, Trevor has worked with the power and electrical industries for some 30 years in a wide variety of roles. As a passionate advocate for the image and customer respect of the Industry, he is internationally known and respected for his efforts to support this vision via engineering expertise, training and information programmes, innovative technical solutions to Industry reliability and safety problems, and regular Industry Conferences aimed at raising and unifying the levels of Industry best practice. Trevor brings a wealth of practical knowledge and experience to the critically important emerging field of on-line monitoring of electrical network assets.

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Nick Chandler has worked in the electrical industry for 40 years as an electrician, electrical fitter, power systems technician, contract manager and electrical engineer.  He currently provides electrical consulting and training services throughout New Zealand and overseas.  Primary work areas include the high voltage generation, transmission and distribution industries and specialised work relating to testing and inspection of electrical installations, electrical appliances, fittings and related equipment.  Other work includes electrical fault and incident investigations and specialised work such as earthing system tests and cable fault location.

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Barry Clegg spent 20 years as an engineer with UK Electricity Boards and a similar period working in many parts of the world with several fault location equipment manufacturers. He has himself developed new ideas and manufactured and marketed several instruments. In addition, he has undertaken training worldwide and maintains a knowledge of current developments through his many international contacts in a wide range of companies and authorities.

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Dr John Densley, Densley Consulting, Toronto, Canada: John Densley graduated from Queen Mary College, University of London with a B. Sc. (Eng) and Ph.D. in 1964 and 1967. He spent 32 years in research into aging and diagnostics of electrical insulation, particularly in medium- and high-voltage cables at the National Research Council of Canada, and at the Ontario Hydro Research Division, which later became Ontario Power Technologies and then Kinectrics. He retired from Kinectrics in 2000 and is now a consultant. Dr. Densley is a Fellow of the IEEE, and is active in the IEEE PES Insulated Conductors Committee (ICC), CIGRE and IEC. He is the Chair of groups in ICC responsible preparing guides on the testing of medium voltage cables under wet conditions and also on the field testing of cables using VLF. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario.

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Dr Michel Duval obtained a B.Sc. and PhD. in chemical engineering in 1966 and 1970 and has worked for IREQ (Hydro-Quebec, Canada) since 1970. M. Duval is well-known for his «Triangle method» of DGA interpretation, used worldwide. He has developed and promoted the use of gas-in-oil standards, now commercially available, for evaluating the accuracy of DGA results and diagnoses. He has established the typical and pre-failure levels of gas formation in equipment in service, used as a reference by the industry. He has also made significant contributions in the field of electrical insulating oils and polymers. He has been the Convenor of several IEC working groups and CIGRE task forces (the latest one, TF15, concerning on-line gas monitors, DGA in LTCs and in non-mineral oils) and the principal author of 5 IEC international standards on DGA. M. Duval holds 15 patents and is the author of more than 70 scientific and technical papers, books and international standards. He is a Fellow of IEEE and of the Chemical Institute of Canada.

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Graham Hodge has been working in the electricity industry for over 25 years. After graduating from University of Canterbury with both a B.E. Electrical (Hons) and M.E. Mechanical in 1977, he joined the Christchurch MED and worked in network operations and as system planning engineer before joining Electricorp Marketing in 1987 as commercial manager. Graham was a prime mover in the formation of Southpower in New Zealand, and more recently managed a technology start up company. He is now an independent strategic advisor in a variety of converging utility fields ranging from smart metering systems and power line communications, through to building robust economic deployment business cases for new technologies. Graham has been recently assisting Lord Consulting, focusing on the issues surrounding how best to maximize the economic life of power network assets by effectively using the emerging on-line asset monitoring systems.

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Peter Smith is a transformer specialist, providing consultancy services and training throughout Australasia in specification, design, construction, testing, failure investigation and condition assessment of Power and Distribution transformers used for both industrial and supply utility applications. Peter has over 40 years experience, working in England, Australia and China for companies including Hawker Siddeley, Tyree Electrical Company, Westinghouse, A.W Tyree Transformers and ABB.

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Wolfgang Degen has almost 40 years of experience in the industry, last position as managing director of development/production of Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) with SIEMENS/ Germany. He offers a wide range of knowledge within the field of substation techniques and technology.