IEEE PES/Section Presentation - Relay Solutions for Conductor Burndown
IEEE Joint PES/Section Technical Meeting
Location: Entergy Building - 639 Loyola Ave. Room 710
Relay Solutions for Conductor Burndown
This is the story of the unintended consequences of reliability improvement and Entergy’s journey to reduce conductor failures in partnership with EPRI and other utilities. Recent advances in recloser technology are replacing fuses at the edge of the grid where small, aged conductors live. The industry is experiencing burndown outages when applying these new recloser technologies. Join us in burning down some wire and learning how to stop the damage.
1 PDH (Professional Development Hour) will be offered.
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- 639 Loyola Ave.
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- United States 70113
- Room Number: 710
- Starts 18 May 2026 05:00 AM UTC
- Ends 01 June 2026 05:00 PM UTC
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Speakers
Biography:
Michael Benbow graduated BSEE from the University of West Florida in 2013. He worked at Gulf Power (A Southern Company) with coordination responsibilities before joining Entergy in 2016. He is now a Senior Engineer who has served in Work Management, Field Engineering, Reliability, and Asset Management. He is Entergy’s Engineering Technical Adviser for the EPRI Supplemental research project, Conductor Burndown. He serves as the Chair of Entergy Self-Powered Recloser Working Group and currently works as a Distribution Automation Protection Engineer.
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Scott Summers is a 40-year veteran of electrical utility distribution engineering in the Gulf Coast region. He graduated from Texas A&M with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He is a Professional Engineer in Texas and has work for Texas New Mexico Power Company, Burns & McDonnell Engineering and Entergy Corporation in many facets of distribution and transmission. He is now the Senior Staff Engineer for Gird Technology at Entergy. He has had many roles in field engineering, planning, protection, automation, reliability, vegetation, customer service, storm response, dispatch, substation, line supervision, and management.