Thomas Edwards is an electrical engineer with over 20 years of experience at East Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC) and Kentucky Utilities. He has extensive experience managing large capital projects in power generation and transmission. At EKPC, his responsibilities included setting protection relays, upgrading generation equipment, and project managing installations costing over $150 million. He developed EKPC's protection criteria and coordinated transformer protection between EKPC and local cooperatives.

1.  E‐mail address (W): Tom.Edwards@ekpc.coop 3660 Gladman Way
 Home Phone: (859) 224‐8555 Lexington, KY 40503
 Mobile Phone (859) 595‐4618
Thomas Andrew Edwards, PE
Objective:
Employment:
May, 2000 – Present East Kentucky Power Cooperative Winchester, KY
July 2011 –
present
Moved to the System Protection Group of EKPC. Duties included the setting and installation
of Generation Protection Relays, Transmission Line Protection Relays, and Distribution
Protection Relays. Major responsibilities: generation protection settings and generation
relay upgrades, transmission settings, and distribution coordination.
June, 2007 –
July 2011
Due to re‐organization at EKPC moved to the Construction Department. Protect Manager of
JK Smith CT Units 9 and 10.
May, 2000 –
June, 2007
The electrical engineer for the Production Department at EKPC. Duties included resolving
normal day to day electrical issues inside the power plants, upgrading generation protection,
and project management for large projects. The typical role for the project manager at EKPC
is to assist in the development of all specification for bid documents and for major BOP
equipment associated with the project. Plus, the project manager is responsible for managing
and reporting the budget for the project, performing daily and weekly safety audits; and
supervising day to day task of contract inspectors, manufacture technical advisories, plant
personnel and administrative assistants/accountants while construction and commissioning is
going on.
Major work completed while at EKPC
 Produced EKPC’s first Generation Protective Relay Setting Criteria
 Extensively modified EKPC’s Transmission Line Protective Relay Setting Criteria
 Initiated the utilization S&C cooling curve method and modified EKPC’s distribution transformer
protection to improve EKPC’s coordination between EKPC’s highside distribution transformer
protection and the local coop distribution reclosers.
 Project Manager for the installation of Units 9 and 10 at JK Smith Power Plant. This project consisted
in the installation of two GE LMS100 gas turbines. Developed the specification and purchased a three
winding GSU transformer for this project. The approximate cost for this project was $154 million.
 Project Manager for the installation of the building over Units 4 and 5 at JK Smith. The approximate
cost for this project was $2.5 million.
 Project Manager for the installation of a 20 inch, high‐pressure natural gas transmission system
between JK Smith and Texas Eastern (Duke Energy). This natural gas system included the installation
of 6.3 miles of gas pipeline, a meter yard, and a regulation yard and resolving outstanding land
acquisition for the project. The approximate cost for this project was $8 million.
 Project Manager for the installation of Units 6 and 7 at JK Smith. This project entailed the installation
of two GE 7EA Frame CTGs. Purchased the two needed GSU transformers for this project. The
approximate cost for this project was $52.5 million.
 Electrical Project Manager for Units 4 & 5 at JK Smith. This project entailed the installation of two GE
7EA Frame CTGs. Purchased the two needed GSU transformers for this project. The approximate
budget for this project was $48 million.
 Electrical Project Manager for a Demin (NOX) water system and the building over this Demin water
system at JK Smith. The approximate cost for this project was $5 million.
 Designed and purchased all components needed for controlling, protecting and housing two CAT 3516
Diesel generator units; including the foundation for these units. Supervised the installation of these
components, and performed final field inspection on the Two BlackStart Diesel Units and their
associated equipment at JK Smith. The approximate budget for this project was $745,000.

2.  E‐mail address (W): Tom.Edwards@ekpc.coop 3660 Gladman Way
 Home Phone: (859) 224‐8555 Lexington, KY 40503
 Mobile Phone (859) 595‐4618
Thomas Andrew Edwards, PE
Major work completed while at EKPC (cont.)
 Purchased, supervised the installation, and commissioned several line‐ups of switchgear and
their associated non‐segregated bus duct.
 Designed, calculated the settings and supervised the installation of several different
generator protection relays on several of EKPC’s existing generators.
 Developed initial standards for SERC/NERC compliance documents for the power plants.
 Miscellaneous duties inside in the power plants – installation of new relays, calculation of
settings for relays, consultant with power plant personnel on electrical problems they
encounter on a day to day basis and developed resolutions to issues that the would improve
or enhance the power plants operations or performance.
Previous
Employment:
Kentucky Utilities, Lexington, KY
Jan 1986 –
May, 2000
Electrical Engineer in the Transmission Substation Department
Major work completed while at KU
 Supervised the installation, and performed final field checks on numerous pieces of transmission
substation equipment to entire substations: relay panels, breakers, transformers, PTs, RTUs, etc.
 Performed all transmission and generation relay calculations for KU
 Maintained the fault study for KU
 Maintained the ECAR fault models for KU and EKPC combined
 Developed KU’s EKPC's System Protection philosophy from the guidelines of the ECAR relaying
philosophy
 1991 to 2000 wrote a report for every transmission failure or undesirable breaker operation on KU’s
transmission system
 Commissioned the relaying on the first four gas turbine generators at Brown CT
 Commissioned the 5kV switchgear and other electrical equipment associated with installation of
scrubber on Ghent Unit 2.
 Developed a maintenance procedure for the inspection of transformer temperature gauges.
 Created a combined KU, EKPC, and LGE fault utilizing GE’s PSLF software. GE’s PSLF software is a PC
based load flow package, which at that time could not accurately by itself calculate currents without
some major finagling by utilizing sub routines.
Programs
Proficient with
ASPEN Oneliner, AutoCad, Microstation, and most Microsoft Office programs
Education 1980 – 1985 University of Kentucky Lexington, KY
Receiving a BSEE in Dec of 1985
 A member of Eta Kappa Nau
Professional
memberships
 A registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Kentucky
 National Society of Professional Engineer
References: Upon Request