Pioneers in Transmission and Distribution Excellence

Chun Fang has nearly 17 years of progressive senior leadership experience in power utilities, engineering, and technical consulting, having held senior project delivery roles at Burns & McDonnell, ATCO Electric, and Manitoba Hydro. His extensive industry background covers a broad spectrum of T&D projects, including 115 – 500 kV AC transmission with series compensation, complex multi-infeed and multi-vendor HVDC systems, FACTS devices, renewable IBR integration, equipment and technology specification and evaluation, and advanced C&P systems.

Chun has provided comprehensive technical advisory and owner’s engineering services for numerous HVDC and FACTS projects. His responsibilities include contractual and technical compliance reviews, pre-acquisition due diligence, feasibility assessments, competitive solicitation support, equipment specification development, and representation during Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT). He frequently advises clients on economic assessments, congestion analyses, asset valuation, procurement strategies, and regulatory considerations. Chun maintains strong relationships with all major HVDC and FACTS OEMs and stays closely informed on current market technologies and commercial offerings for both classic and VSC-based HVDC solutions for various onshore and offshore applications.

He has led specialized power system studies across different project phases from planning, pre-FEED, and FEED through commissioning and operations. These studies include advanced EMT (PSCAD and RTDS) and RMS-based modeling, large-scale and high-fidelity PSCAD model development and validation. Additionally, he has led weak-grid screening for renewable IBR interconnections, pre-commissioning readiness evaluations, blackstart and system restoration analyses, emergency field support, and post-mortem forensic investigations. Notably, Chun has led extensive advanced modeling, validation, and technical studies for the Nelson River HVDC system, including the Bipole III HVDC integration which features synchronous condensers, remedial action schemes (RAS), SVCs, and series-compensated transmission lines, and provided O&M support and compliance assessments for various other HVDC installations. Chun regularly advises and represents clients in technical discussions with OEMs, utilities, ISOs, and project stakeholders.

Previously, Chun served as engineering lead at one of the industry’s largest real-time digital simulation facilities, where he successfully delivered numerous major transmission projects involving hardware-in-the-loop testing with full-scale replica systems of HVDC controls, protective relays, excitation equipment, and custom controllers. He was recognized by the Canadian Electricity Association (CEA) with the Innovation Award for leading the industry’s first controlled switching application using remanence flux estimation in an HVDC system during Bipole 3 HVDC project.
Chun holds Bachelor and Master of Engineering degrees from the University of Manitoba with a specialization in Power Systems. He brings extensive technical knowledge of major equipment and technologies, including HVDC converters, STATCOMs, SVCs, power transformers, and circuit breakers, and has experience and knowledge with key market frameworks such as NYISO, WECC, AESO, ERCOT, and MISO.

Chun actively contributes to industry advancement as Convenor of CIGRE WG C4.64 and previously served as a full member contributing to technical brochure (TB) by WG B4.83, demonstrating continued leadership and commitment to excellence in power system engineering.

Reza Salehi brings more than a decade of experience in power system engineering and consulting to RMS Energy. He holds a PhD in Power System Engineering from Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.

Prior to joining RMS Energy, Reza served as the Inverter-Based Resource (IBR) Services Lead at Quanta Technology and a Power System Lead at ARUP. His areas of expertise include wind, solar, and battery integration, interconnection, commissioning, regulatory compliance, and power system readiness for high IBR penetration. Reza specializes in power system stability analysis, Sub-Synchronous Oscillation (SSO) mitigation, Inverter-Based Resource (IBR) integration, and smart inverter applications for which he has conducted several years of research and development. Additionally, Reza has extensive experience in Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing, Electromagnetic Transients (EMT) studies, and microgrid system modeling and analysis. He also has experience in industrial EPC projects as an electrical engineer, where he specialized in electrical system design and engineering.

Rajesh Vaid has more than 20 years experience in electrical power systems engineering. He obtained his Masters from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and PhD from University of Manitoba in 2018, focusing on VSC-HVDC systems and stability of AC networks.

Before joining RMS Energy, Rajesh worked at Hatch Ltd., as HVDC Interconnection Manager leading a team of studies and detailed engineering professionals. The team focused on grid interconnection of HVDC systems, involving network capacity and injection analysis, development of HVDC converter and equipment specifications. Rajesh has also authored chapters in a feasibility report on a greenfield Eastern HVDC Interconnector focusing on HVDC topologies, Operation and Control modes and HVDC cables. Rajesh also has experience in detail design of wind, solar and BESS projects including steady state analysis – cable ampacity, load flow and reactive compensation, short circuit analysis, arc flash and power quality analysis. He is also experienced in sizing of inter-array, export cables and development of detailed models and in steady state analysis for offshore wind farms, including PSCAD studies for AC submarine cables and power quality analysis. Prior to Hatch, Rajesh has worked with Mott Macdonald where he undertook extensive interconnection and model quality studies in ERCOT, ISO-NE, CAISO and NYISO regions. Rajesh has worked as research engineer at Electranix, modeling VSC-HVDC systems in PSCAD and investigating HVDC grid concepts, he has also worked as a studies engineer at Manitoba Hydro International.

Hasan Bayat has led an advanced engineering team within EPE consulting company focused on system studies, generation interconnection, and model development for power generation resources, including conventional generation and IBRs. He also spearheaded model development for complex loads such as AI data centers, green hydrogen (GH2) generation facilities, and water desalination plants. Hasan has expertise in steady-state studies—covering cable ampacity, short-circuit, protection coordination, reactive power, and harmonics. His dynamic study capabilities include detailed modeling of IBRs, such as BESS, PV, onshore and offshore wind farms. He has conducted and led statewide Injection Studies, Full Interconnection Studies (FIS) package preparation, QSA, pre-commissioning, and as-built model development, tuning, and benchmarking in platforms such as PSCAD, PSSE, PSLF, and TSAT.

During his time with GE Renewable Energy, Hasan managed the Real-Time Digital Simulator (RTDS) lab, conducting numerous Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) tests to assess innovative protection and control algorithms for wildfire prevention, microgrid deployment, and stability assessment. His technical contributions led to two patents for High-speed Falling Conductor Protection (HFCP) for transmission and distribution systems, underscoring his commitment to innovation in the power systems field.