Bai Kendrick Blyden received the degree of MS.EE from the Moscow Energetics Institute in 1979. Specializing in Power Systems, Generation and Industrial Distribution Systems. He is also the recipient of numerous professional development certifications throughout his career.Mr. Blyden has worked on over forty major and minor power plant projects and their associated interconnections throughout his career in various capacities of Electrical Systems design, operations planning, project development and construction management. His more high profile assignments have been as a Project Manager on team which planned the Calpine 70,000 MW development program. Within this scope he also served as onsite Construction Manager for California Emergency Peaker Program which planned and managed the construction and commissioning of eleven (11x 45 MW) General Electric LM6000 gas turbine units under California executive order D-26-01 issued to protect the grid around Silicon Valley at the peak of the 2001 California energy crisis. He has worked on large nuclear, hydro and mid to small distributed energy systems and has held senior technical consulting and staff positions with various Utilities and AE firms such as TVA, Pacific Gas & Electric, The New York Power Authority, Texas Utilities, Southern Nuclear, Bechtel, ABB and Stone & Webster. Mr. Blyden brings multicultural advantages in leveraging relationships and is fluent in multiple languages.He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and serves as Chair of the IEEE PES International Practices subcommittee for Africa. He is also an advisor to Centric Ltd a commercial startup focused on the development of sustainable Green Housing and general building systems.Mr. Blyden has been published widely in international peer reviewed journals and is married with 3 children.Specialties: Energy Development, Dynamic Networking