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Robert Cummings of NERC has been named to CURENT's Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). The SAB is comprised of outside experts who are selected by, and serve collectively as a board to advise, the ERC Leadership Team. The SAB meets as a group with the CURENT at least once a year and once each year with the NSF SVT at the annual site visit. The baord provides general advice to CURENT Leadership team and provides feedback on information and ideas presented at their meetings by CURENT senior staff.  

Mr. Cummings joined NERC in 1996 and has extensive experience in the industry in system planning, operations engineering, and wide-area planning. He is the senior staff technical advisor for the NERC System Analysis and Modeling Subcommittee and the System Protection and Controls Subcommittee, and is a technical advisor to the North American Synchro-Phasor Initiative. He is also the technical director of the NERC System Protection Improvement Initiative, the Modeling Improvements Initiative, and the Frequency Response Initiative. 

Read the rest of Robert Cummings' bio and meet the other members of the SAB. 

Read the article in the The Daily Energy Insider.