Largo, Florida – March 27, 2015 – Beckwith Electric, a leading power systems protection, automation and control solutions company, is pleased to announce that its president Dr. Murty V.V.S. Yalla has been appointed chair of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC, Geneva, Switzerland) Technical Committee 95 (TC 95) Measuring Relays and Protection Equipment. Dr. Yalla was nominated by the French national committee which holds the secretariat and appointed by a unanimous vote of the IEC Standardization Management Board (SMB), for a six year term (2015-2021).
In this capacity, Dr. Yalla provides leadership to experts from the national committees of 18 participating countries (Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States). The work of this committee includes the standardization of measuring relays and protection equipment used in the various fields of electrical engineering covered by the IEC. The work of this committee is important in protecting and isolating faulty electrical equipment quickly thereby minimizing electric power system blackouts around the world.
“Dr. Yalla has contributed immensely as a convener for the past 10 years to the development of five international standards from TC 95,” said Dr. Yaping Li, outgoing chair of IEC TC 95 from China. “With his new appointment, I am confident that he will bring the standards development work at the IEC to the next level.”
“I enjoyed working with Dr. Yalla as a convener of MT4 over the past ten years and I really appreciate his professional attitude,” said Mr. Serge Volut, secretary of IEC TC95 from France. “His expertise and leadership will significantly help standards development work and I am looking forward to working with him.”
Eric A. Udren, Executive Advisor with Quanta Technology LLC and Technical Advisor to the US National Committee of IEC for TC 95, said “Murty was already known internationally as an expert in protective relaying of electric generators. He has been working actively in IEC TC 95 for years, leading Maintenance Team (MT) 4, an international team of standards developers from a variety of backgrounds. He led MT4 to create a whole new body of functional standards for power apparatus protection. TC 95 presented Murty with the IEC 1906 Award in 2010 in recognition of the volume, speed, and quality of standards development which Murty led. Elevation to Chair of TC 95 is the next logical step in Murty’s IEC leadership career.”
Dr. Yalla has been with Beckwith Electric since 1989. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, India in 1981; a MS in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India in 1983; and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick, Canada in 1987. From 1988 to 1989, Dr. Yalla taught and conducted research on digital power system protection at Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada. He has published several research papers in international journals on digital protection. He holds five U.S. patents in the areas of digital controls and protective relays.
He is the convener of IEC TC 95 MT4 which developed the following international standards: IEC 60255-151, IEC 60255-127, IEC 60255-121, IEC 60255-149 and IEC 60255-187 (under development).
He was a U.S. delegate to the International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRÈ, Paris, France) Working Groups B5.04 Modern Techniques for Protecting and Monitoring Generating Plants and B5.05 Modern Techniques for Protecting, Controlling and Monitoring of Power Transformers. He was also a member (subject matter expert) of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) System Protection and Control Subcommittee (SPCS).
In 2006, Dr. Yalla was elected to Fellow grade by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow Committee for his contributions in computer relays for power systems. Presently, he serves on the IEEE PES Fellows committee. He is an active member of the IEEE Power System Relaying Committee (PSRC) for the past 24 years. He was the Chairman of the Rotating Machinery Protection Subcommittee of the PSRC (2012-2015). He was the chairman of the working group which developed IEEE Standard C37.102-2006 “Guide for AC Generator Protection.” He co-authored an IEEE PES tutorial on the “Protection of Synchronous Generators.” He chaired the working group which received the IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) Working Group Recognition Award for an outstanding technical report “Application of Peer-to-Peer Communications for Protective Relaying” at the IEEE PES General Meeting in Denver, Colorado in June 2004.
He received the IEEE Florida Council Outstanding Engineer Award in 2005. Dr. Yalla received the IEC 1906 Award in 2010 which honors the IEC experts around the world in recognizing their exceptional recent achievements and contributions to the IEC committees. He also received the Indo-US Chamber of Commerce Businessman of the Year Award in 2013. About the IEC Founded in 1906, the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) is the world’s leading organization for the preparation and publication of International Standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies. IEC provides a platform to companies, industries and governments for meeting, discussing and developing the International Standards they require. Over 10,000 experts from industry, commerce, government, test and research labs, academia and consumer groups participate in IEC Standardization work. Millions of electrical or electronic products and systems in homes, offices, healthcare facilities, factories, public spaces, power generation, transportation, and more, rely on IEC International Standards and Conformity Assessment Systems to perform, fit and work safely together. Please visit the IEC website at www.iec.ch for further information.
About Beckwith Electric
Founded in 1967, Beckwith Electric introduced the first solid state tapchanger control in 1968, and was the first to develop the microprocessor protective relay in 1981. Today, Beckwith Electric has thousands of protection and control units in service worldwide, with a reputation for cutting-edge technology, defined by its customers and refined by Beckwith. This success starts with Beckwith Electric Employees and their commitment to quality in the products, all 100% designed and manufactured in Largo, Florida, U.S.A.
Beckwith’s field-proven smart distribution automation controls for transformers, regulators and capacitor banks incorporate unique control strategies, advanced microprocessor architecture and cyber security compliant communications. Power systems protection solutions include generator, transformer, feeder, recloser and distributed generation applications. Specialized synchronizing and motor bus transfer systems are also offered.
Beckwith Electric’s customers include power utilities, heavy industrial and large institutional markets, and their consultants.
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