David Wilkinson Email & Phone Number

David Wilkinson, FIEAust CPEng NER APEC Engineer IntPE(Aus) David is experienced in many areas of electricity distribution including:• Protection and control (management of secondary assets, protection and control relays, d.c. systems, fault investigations, equipment repair and troubleshooting).• Primary assets (transformers, cables and switchgear).• Network planning (load forecasting, network modelling, demand management, energy losses, power quality).• Network reliability and security (calculation of expected energy at risk and identification and assessment of options to balance costs versus reliability).• Emerging technologies and R&D (new protection schemes such as rapid earth fault current limiters - REFCLs, broken conductor fault detection).• Operational support during faults and emergencies (network control centre technical support).• Embedded generation and demand management (network connection standards, compliance and testing, solar PV and battery energy storage systems).• Regulation and technical compliance (AER electricity distribution reviews, ESV reporting, Victorian service and installation rules, Australian Standards, National Electricity Rules).• Project management and budget preparation (manage project delivery, resourcing, mentoring).• Technical report writing (scopes of work, business cases, strategies and policies, incident investigations, standards, procedures, ENA public submissions).• Consulting services (rail / traction modelling).• Procurement (sourcing of suppliers, contracts, commercial negotiation).• Industry participation (organise and present at conferences and short courses, API, CEC, industry working groups on REFCLs and solar, work with universities, working with government, ENA and obtaining government funding grants).• Health and safety and environment/sustainability (assessment of hazards and risk such as bushfire and powerline worker safety, climate change strategy and mitigation).