Farbod Jahanbakhsh, PE, MSEE

Farbod Jahanbakhsh, MSEE, PE, Advisor, has more than 18 years of Power System Planning, Design and Analyst Engineering experience. Prior to joining Quanta in 2007, he was Transmission & Distribution Specialist at CYME-International T&D Inc., offering power system studies tools and consulting services in simulation-based power system studies. Farbod was responsible for simulation and analysis and also development of new modules for various software such as, voltage regulators for DG reactive power control, Circuit-Breaker sizing and rating check, Arc-flash Hazards, Safety Grounding optimization, and Distance-relay setting.

Since joining Quanta Technology in 2007, he has led many system study projects in the areas of renewable energy, bulk power system planning, reliability, steady state and dynamics, as well as Arc Flash and EMF engineering.

His past experience is as follows:

He was Transmission Planner and System Analyst Engineer in utility systems with more than 30GW generation capacity. He was responsible for power system technical and economical planning, simulation and studies for identifying appropriate mythology for system reinforcement and optimization performance. The focus of his engineering responsibility was on reliability studies, tools evaluation and development, as well as conducting consultancy projects in various areas including; equipment rating, transmission line and substation design, load forecasting, steady state and dynamics stability analysis, fault analysis, voltage stability, power quality, sub-transient analysis and safety engineering calculations in accordance with well know standard and criteria.

He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tehran University, and M.Sc. in advanced Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic of TU.

Mr. Jahanbakhsh is an IEEE member and a registered Professional Engineer in the State of North Carolina.

Farbod Jahanbakhsh can be reached at farbod@quanta-technology.com