Wayne Hartmann, Senior VP, Customer Excellence of Beckwith Electric

• Distributed Energy Resources (DER) and Distribution Automation (DA) can cause voltage regulation problems:

  • DER and DA may cause power flow direction change and source strength change
  • Active VAR-regulating DER needs to be properly controlled, integrated and coordinated with  line capacitors

  LTC Transformer and Voltage Regulator Controls need to implement special VVO strategies when challenged by DER and DA:

  • Autodetermination®: Control autonomously determines source strength and selects optimal operating mode
  • VAR Bias®: Control autonomously uses VAR flow direction and quantity to ensure
    • (1) voltage variations from reactive power level changes are addressed by VAR assets and
    • (2) voltage variations from real power level changes are addressed by LTC Transformers and Voltage Regulators

Biography:

Wayne Hartmann, VP, Protection and Smart Grid Solutions, Beckwith Electric 

Wayne Hartmann is VP, Protection and Smart Grid for Beckwith Electric. He provides customer and industry linkage to Beckwith Electric’s solutions, contributing expertise for application engineering, training and product development.

Before joining Beckwith Electric, Wayne performed in application, sales and marketing management capacities with PowerSecure, General Electric, Siemens Power T&D and Alstom T&D. During the course of Wayne's participation in the industry, his focus has been on the application of protection and control systems for electrical generation, transmission, distribution, and distributed energy resources.

Wayne is very active in the IEEE as a Senior Member and serving as a Main Committee Member of the IEEE Power System Relaying Committee for 25 years. He is presently the Chairing the “Investigation of the Criteria for the Transfer of Motor Buses” Working Group. His IEEE tenure includes having Chaired the Rotating Machinery Protection Subcommittee (’07-’10), contributing to numerous standards, guides, transactions, reports and tutorials, and teaching at the T&D Conference and various local PES and IAS chapters. He has authored and presented numerous technical papers and contributed to McGraw-Hill's “Standard Handbook of Power Plant Engineering, 2nd Ed.”

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