Julio Romero-Aguero

Dr. Julio Romero Agüero, Director of Distribution and Principal Advisor, Quanta Technology Expert. Dr. Romero Agüero is Director of Distribution at Quanta Technology, Raleigh, NC. He has over 16 years of experience working with electric utilities and regulatory boards. His areas of expertise are planning, operations, and analysis of power distribution systems, smart grid, and integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER).

He has assisted numerous electric utilities in the USA, Canada, Latin America, The Caribbean and Asia, in the areas of power distribution planning, reliability, load forecasting, protection, engineering, smart grid, distribution automation, loss and efficiency improvement analyses, and integration of distributed generation and plug-in electric vehicles.

Dr. Romero Agüero is former Commissioner of the National Energy Commission of Honduras, Vice Chair of the IEEE Distribution Subcommittee, Editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Secretary of the IEEE Working Group on Distributed Resources Integration and the IEEE Working Group on Modern and Future Distribution System Planning, Member of the Advisory Committee of DistribuTECH, and Senior Member of the IEEE. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from National University of San Juan, Argentina. He is the author of over 30 technical papers, and is a frequent speaker and instructor in industry conferences and training courses. Dr. Romero Agüero can be reached at julio@quanta-technology.com