Dr. Manochehr Eghtesadi
Principal Consultant, Dr. Eghtesadi is an expert in the field with over twenty (20) years of experience. The two state estimation programs he developed based on the NE/C and Orthogonal transformation algorithms for Landis & Gyr (now part of Siements PT&D) have been utilized by many transmission operation centers around the world. Main users include BC-Hydro, TVA, TenneT (operator of Netherlands’s national grid), Western Resources (WRI), Mid-American Energy (MEC), and Southwest Public Service (SPS). Moreover, Dr. Eghtesadi has been providing consulting services in state estimation algorithm development (AREVA, PSI, and Siemens), model development for state estimation (PG&E, CAISO, Entergy, BCHydro), observability analysis for meter-placement (PG&E, TVA), closed-loop voltage/var scheduler (SCE, Czech-republic), algorithm and software development to account for cascading effects (secondary contingencies and Remedial Action Schemes) in Contingency Analysis (Siemens, TenneT).