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Historical Milestones in EE that Happened in Our Inland Empire

February 20, 2014

Posted by Frank Gomez under PES

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Event:

A talk on Historical Milestones in the development Generation and Transmission of

Power in the Inland Empire Region

Speaker: Roger Fenton

Brief Abstract of the talk:

Most people consider the East Coast USA as being in the forefront of electrical trail-blazing. However, the Inland Empire provided the seeds for modern transmission generation design and revolutionized the electric utility industry with two pioneer hydroelectric plants. San Antonio plant established the commercial feasibility of long distance transmission. The Mill Creek plant introduced three-phase alternating current. In 1888, Highgrove plant was the first hydroelectric generating station to go into commercial service in California. Almarion Decker, Cyrus Baldwin, Charles Lloyd, Gustavus Newman, Orville Ensign played important roles

Speaker’s Bio:

Education:

• B.Sc. (Electrical Engineering-Power), Portland State, Oregon;

• B.Sc. (Physical Education), Oregon State, Oregon

• A.Sc. (Industrial Technology), PCC, Oregon

• Relay Testman, SCE

• Substation Test School, SCE

• Substation Operators School, SCE

• Apparatus Engineer (School of Hard Knocks), SCE

• NETA Test Technician

• Journeyman Inside Wireman, Oregon

Prior Work Experience: As a Professional Engineer (PE), I have 36 years in the electrical business doing residential, commercial, industrial, production, petro-chemical, marine, and utility. My first full time working job was standing knee deep in a room full of blood and bone manure and shoveling the “pile” coming off the conveyor belt into the far corners of the room. From that experience I have learned to know the real stuff from the artificial. I have had many jobs such as chasing sheep, building barns, working in sweat factories for minimum pay, teaching high school, sales, clerking, unemployed, millwright, lifeguard, electrician, technician, engineer and even got to dodge zoomies while working in containment at SONGS.