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Edward Krizauskas , PE - Principal Engineer

Ed Krizauskas has over 25 years of experience in the electric utility industry, the bulk of which being in transmission and distribution system protection and control engineering.  Ed also has experience in distribution engineering and transmission and distribution planning.

Ed earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University in 1985, and a Master of Engineering in Electric Power Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1990.  Ed is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of New York and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and is a senior member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society.

Prior to joining EIG, Ed was a system protection and control engineer for New York State Electric and Gas/Rochester Gas and Electric from 1991 to 2010.  Ed engineered and designed protection and relay telecommunication systems and developed relay settings for circuits from the bulk transmission level to the distribution level.  Ed also engineered protection systems for substations, generating stations and industrial plants, performed short circuit and device interrupting duty studies, relay coordination studies, equipment overvoltage studies, system grounding studies, ground potential rise studies, thermal loadability studies for protection equipment and settings, interconnection studies for small and large independent power producers, and root-cause relay operation investigations.  Ed was the lead protection engineer for the Rochester Transmission Project, which consisted of the rebuilding/upgrading the entire 115 kV transmission system supplying the city of Rochester and the surrounding area.  Ed was also lead protection engineer for the Ithaca and Corning Valley Transmission reinforcement projects.

Ed was the NYSEG/RG&E representative to the NYISO System Protection Advisory Subcommittee, and served as its chairman in 2010.  Ed was Vice-Chair and Secretary of a New York State Public Service Commission working group to develop statewide standards for interconnecting distributed generation to the New York State electrical system.  Ed was a member of a joint NPCC/PJM working group that was assembled in the wake of the 2003 Blackout to evaluate protection systems for the NPCC/PJM intertie lines between New York State and Pennsylvania to ensure their proper operation during stable and unstable power swings on the bulk transmission system.  Ed has chaired and vice-chaired IEEE Power System Relay Committee (PSRC) working groups and served on numerous other PSRC working groups, and has authored and co-authored numerous technical papers and magazine articles.  Ed is a frequent presenter at technical conferences at both the regional and national level, and has also developed training courses for general power engineering and protection engineering.

Prior to his time at NYSEG/RG&E, Ed was a transmission system planning engineer for Atlantic Electric Corporation from 1990 to 1991.  Ed performed transmission system expansion studies, load flow studies and stability studies for the southern New Jersey transmission system, most notably planning of the transmission system to supply new casinos/hotels in Atlantic City.  Ed also participated in transmission planning working groups for PJM.

Prior to that, Ed was a distribution/ distribution planning engineer for the New England Electric System from 1985 to 1989.  During his time at NEES, Ed was assigned a region in southeastern Massachusetts to engineer interconnections of new loads onto distribution systems during a high load growth period, engineer distribution protection systems and perform relay coordination studies, and perform transmission and distribution system planning studies.