John Spare, PhD, PE

John Spare, PhD, PE, Principal Advisor. Recently working on distribution reliability analysis projects for utilities and EPRI, long-term spatial load forecasting, long-range center city T&D planning, asset management with 25 years of engineering experiece working for a major utility.

Areas of Expertise

• Distribution Reliability and Operations
• T&D Planning
• Underground Urban-core Power Systems
• Load Forecasting
• Reliability Centered Maintenance, Condition Based Maintenance

Experience and Background

• Number of years of experience in the electric power industry 1970 - 2010
• Principal Advisor, Quanta Technology 2007 - 2010
• Sr. Principal Consultant, KEMA 2000 - 2007
• CBM Consultant, CSI Services, Emerson Process Management 1995 - 2000
• Consulting Engineer, Sr. Engineer, Engineer, PECO Energy 1970 - 1995

Accomplishments and Industry Recognition

• IEEE Sr. Member
• IEEE Power & Energy Society, System Planning Sub Comm., Reliability & Risk Sub Comm.
• IEEE Power Industry Computer Applications Conference (‘83-‘89), Exec Chair, Tech Chair
• Eta Kappa Nu (National Board of Directors), Tau Beta Pi
• Published over 23 papers
• PE Pennsylvania, 1983

Education

• PhD-EE University of Pennsylvania, 1975
• MSEE University of Pennsylvania, 1969
• BSEE Carnegie Mellon University, 1966

John Spare can be contacted at jspare@quanta-technology.com