Wanda Reder Joins S&C as Vice President, Power Systems Services Division.

Wanda Reder, a well-respected consultant in the electric power industry, recently joined S&C Electric Company as Vice President of the Power Systems Services Division. This division of S&C offers consulting and engineering services, field services, and project management to utilities and power users. In this role Wanda will not only continue to offer her consulting expertise, but also bring with her valuable industry knowledge.

She received an Engineering Bachelor of Science degree from South Dakota State University in 1986 and a Masters in Business Administration from the College of St. Thomas in 1990.

Wanda joined Northern States Power Company in 1987 and held numerous leadership positions there. She was involved in the justification and deployment of distribution automation, planning for long-range delivery system needs, and development of conservation and load management initiatives. In 1997, she started and led Ultra Power Technologies, Inc., a deregulated subsidiary of Northern States Power that performed predictive diagnostics on underground cable for utilities in the US and Canada.

Later she served as VP–Energy at Davies Consulting, where she developed asset management and reliability improvement strategies for various utilities. In 2001, she joined ComEd as Vice President of Engineering and Planning. ComEd provides electric service for approximately 3.4 million customers in northern Illinois. Wanda’s areas of responsibility included system planning, engineering standards, maintenance, reliability, and mapping. In 2003, she assumed leadership of Exelon Energy Delivery Asset Management, spanning the service areas of ComEd and PECO in Philadelphia. She was additionally responsible for asset investment strategy, electric transmission, substation standards, new business engineering, delivery engineering, and work management.

Wanda has served on the IEEE Power Engineering Society Governing Board since 2002 and was Chairperson of the 2002 IEEE PES Summer Meeting. She has been a distinguished lecturer at many conferences and has also served in leadership positions with EEI T&D. Most recently, Wanda has researched the aging workforce of the power industry in the U.S., to prepare a “road map” for actions to be taken.

Please help us extend a warm welcome to Wanda Reder!