Pioneers in Transmission and Distribution Excellence

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.

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.

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.

Madjer Santos brings over 15 years of experience in the power systems consulting and utilities industries, specializing in protection and controls (P&C) and substation detailed engineering in both T&D and renewable energy projects.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, and an MBA in Business Administration, both from Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil).

Madjer began his career in Brazil, honing his skills in high-voltage substations, distribution systems operations and P&C in one of the country’s largest distribution utilities. He later gained further experience in solar farm design and team management, and served as a Project Manager for a major industrial facility expansion project at Volkswagen. Since becoming a licensed Electrical Engineer in Canada he performed electrical studies and technical support and training on a simulation software for distribution networks at CYME/Eaton, before spending 3 years at Hydro-Québec, notably contributing for several generation stations, transmission lines and substation projects, developing standardized P&C schemes for substations in the provincial network and supporting specific projects such as the replacement of power transformers and high voltage circuit breakers.

Most recently, Madjer served as Senior Engineer, Protection and Controls at Hatch, and as Lead Electrical Engineer at WSP Canada. In these roles, he refined his technical and leadership skills, leading important wind and solar farm projects in Alberta, BESS projects in Ontario and T&D substation projects in Ontario, Québec and the US, providing guidance, mentoring, and training for young engineers, as well as coordinating activities among multidisciplinary teams and driving business development efforts.

Madjer’s technical expertise includes protection and coordination studies, relay programming and testing, substation P&C design, NERC/ISO compliance reports and other power systems steady-state studies such as arc-flash, short-circuit and load-flow, using engineering software tools such as CYME, ETAP, CAPE and ASPEN. His multilingual abilities in English, French, and Portuguese enable him to effectively engage with diverse teams and clients around the globe.

Certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) since 2016, Madjer also holds credentials as a PRINCE2 and Professional Scrum Master (PSM I), highlighting his capability to lead complex projects and engineering initiatives.