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It is with sadness that we share news of the passing of Bill Thue, who died peacefully at his home in London on July 12th. Bill was 93. A private funeral is planned for August 9, and a Memorial Service is planned for April 28, 2018 in London. Bill was a past Chair of ICC, an IEEE Fellow, and the recipient of the ICC Distinguished Service Award in 1985.
William A. Thue received a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1946.
Employed by Florida Power & Light for 38 years in construction, operations and engineering assignments. Bill is an IEEE Fellow and recipient of the ICC's Distinguished Service Award in 1985. He is a Past Chairman of the Cable Engineering Section of AEIC; and a Past Chairman of NESC Subcommittees 1 and 7. He has authored or co-authored over 35 papers and articles involved with the transmission and distribution of electric power. Bill has been a Consultant since 1986.
In 1992 Bill was elevated to level of IEEE Fellow with the following citation: For contributions to improved underground power cable systems and standards.
The following Biographical outline was provided courtesy of RTI Group LLC.
William A. Thue is a Senior Electrical Engineer who is widely recognized as a leading authority in the power industry for his contributions to electrical power cable design, application, and standards. During his thirty-eight years of employment with Florida Power and Light Company in the Engineering and Operations Department, Mr. Thue was involved in the design and construction of electrical power transmission, distribution and generation systems; overhead and underground engineering design; overhead and underground crew supervision; submarine and aerial cable design and installation; underground transmission design and installation; nuclear and fossil power plant electrical systems; cable testing and fault location; safety and environmental investigations; development of work and training procedures; and accident and service reliability investigations.
Mr. Thue was responsible for the entire underground system of FP&L including the Miami underground secondary network. As Manager of Underground System Operations he was responsible for establishing safety and maintenance rules and procedures throughout the company. During these years, he was active in the development of national and international standards and codes; and has been active in the development of industry standards for cables and accessories and has testified before such organizations as: Florida Public Service Commission, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Advisory Commission on Reactor Safeguards.
He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, member of the IET, and past Chairs of: Insulated Conductors Committee of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Cable Engineering Section of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, Electric Power Research Institute's Distribution Task Force, underground Lines of the National Electrical Safety Code (ANSI C-2), and Purpose and Scope of the National Electrical Safety Code (ANSI C-2)
Mr. Thue has authored or coauthored many technical papers on electrical power cable shielding, fireproofing, performance and life estimation. He has been a contributor to: 1957 Underground Systems Reference Book and 2011 EPRI Distribution Systems Reference Book, The "Bronze Book."
Following his retirement from FP&L, Mr. Thue began a consulting engineer career were he has been involved in research projects for EPRI, taught short courses at UCLA and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is editor of Electrical Power Cable Engineering -- now in its 3rd Edition, and involved in over 130 legal cases an expert witness in Canada and the USA.
Relevant Experience
Member of RTI team as a consultant to Connecticut
Light & Power as to the cause of the secondary network explosion in Waterbury,
CT of Feb 21, 2007.
Provided consulting services to Mayor Bloomberg of NYC
to find the causes of the Long Island City network failures of early July 2006.
Participated with other RTI team members for an audit of the IPL system after
the Jan 5, 2005 secondary cable failure.
Provided consulting services to
Consolidated Edison of NY to find the causes of the Washington Heights secondary
network failures of July 6, 1999.
Academic Background
University of South Carolina, Bachelor of Science
Degree in Electrical Engineering in the U. S. Navy V-12 program, 1946
Professional Experience
Senior Electrical Engineering consultant, RTI
Group, LLC, Annapolis, MD, February 2005 - present
Senior Electrical
Engineering consultant, Reynolds Technologies International, LLC (rti), wholly
owned subsidiary of FTI Consulting, Inc., Annapolis, MD, 2003 - 2005
Electrical Engineering Consultant, FTI Consulting, Annapolis, MD, 2001 2003
Consulting Electrical Engineer, emphasis on teaching and an expert witness in
over 100 legal cases in the United States and Canada, 1984 present
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Course Instructor & Lecturer: Applications
and Assessment of Power Cable Systems, 1984 present
University of
California at Los Angeles, Course Instructor: Power Cable Engineering Clinic,
1986 - 1993
Florida Power & Light Company, Student Engineer, Junior
Engineer, Crew Supervisor, Senior Engineer, Supervising Engineer, System
Operations Engineer , 1965 -1975; Manager System Underground Operations,
1975-1979; and Senior Staff Engineer, Distribution Engineering, 1979 - 1984
Professional Associations and Activities
National Electrical Safety Code
- ANSI C2; past chairman subcommittee #1, purpose, scope subcommittees; past
chairman subcommittee #7, underground lines subcommittee; member interpretations
subcommittee.
Insulated Cable Standards Committee - ANSI C8; member since
1985.
CIGRE - International Conference of Large Electric Systems:
member1972 - 1990; Attwood Associate, 1980
Power Engineering Society of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE): member 1945 - 2006;
life fellow 1992; program chair - underground distribution conference 1969; vice
chair - underground distribution conference 1972;
Chairman - special
technical conferences 1972 - 1982; executive chairman - underground transmission
and distribution conference 1974.
Insulated Conductors Committee of the
Power Engineering Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers: member, 1955-2006; chairman, cable characteristics 1969-1972;
secretary treasurer, 1972-1974; vice chairman, 1974-1976; chairman 1976-1978;
chairman, standards subcommittee 1978-1983; outstanding service award 1985;
chairman, submarine cable installation guide 1986-1989; chairman, power cable
field test guide 1993-2006.
Association of Edison Illuminating Companies -
Cable Engineering Section: member 1958-1984; secretary 1968-1970; vice chairman
1970-1972; chairman 1972-1974; chairman, extruded dielectric cable
specifications, 1970-1983.
Electric Power Research Institute: member,
advisory committee 1978-1981; chairman, underground distribution 1980-1981.
Research Activities
Electric Power Research Institute: member, advisory
committee 1978-1981; chairman, underground distribution program 1980-1981.
Industry Advisor on numerous Research Projects.
Member of Electric Power
Research Institutes Long Life Cable Group and contributor to EPRIs
Distribution Cable Research Digest, Volumes One and Two, EPRI Publication
EL-6271, 1989.
Author of Electric Power Research Institutes Distribution
Cable Research Digest, 2000, publication BR-110693.
Selected Publications
Thue, W. A. and Clayton, J. M.; "Lightning
Performance of Aerial Cable Field and Laboratory Studies," IEEE Summer Power
Meeting, Toronto, June 1957.
Underground Systems Reference Book, Edison
Electric Institute, EEL Publication 55-16, 1957, Chapter 7 - "Conduits and
Manholes."
Thue, W. A. and Ware, P. H.; "Effect of Shield Design on
Performance of Aerial Cables," IEEE Winter Power Meeting, New York, NY, Jam
31-Feb 5, 1965.
Thue, W. A.; "Thermal Resistivity of Concrete," IEEE
Underground Transmission Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 1972.
Thue, W. A. and
Ware, P. H.; "Improved Low Voltage Cables," IEEE 1974 Underground Transmission
and Distribution Conference and Exposition, Dallas, TX.
"Operating and
Testing Experiences on Solid Dielectric Cables," CIGRE, Paris, France, 1980.
"Accelerated Aging of Extruded Dielectric Cables, Controls and Monitoring
Methodology," IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp 596-602,
April 1992.
"Accelerated Aging of Extruded Dielectric Power Cables, Parts I
and II: Life Testing of 15 kV XLPE-Insulated Cables," IEEE Transactions on Power
Delivery, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp 603-608, April 1992.
"A Statistical Aging Model
for XLPE-Insulated Medium Voltage Distribution Cables, "IEEE 1994 Annual Report
-- Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena, pp 458-470.
"Accelerated Cable Life Testing of EPR-Insulated Medium Voltage Distribution
Cables," IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp 1195-1208, July
1994.
"Design and Application of Aerial Systems Using Insulated and Covered
Wire and Cable," Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution
Conference, 96CH35968, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 15-20, 1996.
"Safety
Considerations of Aerial Systems Using Insulated and Covered Wire and Cable,"
Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Conference,
96CH35968, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 15-20, 1996.
Editor of and Contributor to
Electrical Power Cable Engineering, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1998, ISBN:
0-8247-9976-3.
Editor of and Contributor to Electrical Power Cable
Engineering Second Edition, Marcel Dekker, New York, 2003, ISBN:
0-8247-4303-2.
Lectures and Presentations
Frequent speaker and seminar presenter and
guest lecturer for a variety of groups and organizations including:
Nuclear
Regulatory Commission
Commission on Reactor Safeguards
Environmental
Protection Administration
Florida Public Utility Commission
National
Rural Electric Cooperative Association
Edison Electric Institute
South
Eastern Electric Exchange
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