Joe

Biography:

Joseph D Renowden is a Registered Engineer in the States of Florida and North Carolina.
As a Reliability Engineer, Standards Engineer, and Line Design Engineer, he became familiar with all the components, functions, and malfunctions of what are now commonly referred to as Transmission Assets.  After retiring from Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), where he worked with the Transmission System for 29 years, he founded JDR Engineering, Inc. 
At FPL he initiated, managed, and contributed to many R&D projects to improve the reliability and performance of transmission lines and is co-patent holder on a system to provide Remote Contamination Monitoring of insulation on coastal power lines and stations. 
Having done forensic failure analysis on a large variety of power line components, including all types of insulators, he learned that:
•    Asset Performance is as much the result of nature interacting with the lines, as the design and engineering properties of the components themselves. 
•    Birds do more than sing when they are around transmission structures.
•    To manage risk, it needs to be characterized, preferably quantified, and presented in ways that the organization can use to make effective decisions.
Joe has authored IEEE papers, magazine articles and made conference presentations on transmission insulators, contamination performance, and other aspects of transmission lines. 

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