Siemens PTD Power Technologies Subdivision Introduces New Head

Prof. Wolfram Wellssow takes over as head of the Power Technologies Subdivision at Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution

Erlangen, Germany — Prof. Wolfram Wellssow, 48, took over as head of the Power Technologies Subdivision of the Service Division at Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD), Erlangen, as of July 1, 2005. He succeeds Dr. Bernd Buchholz, the long-serving head of the Network Planning and Consulting Subdivision, who will be retiring at the beginning of 2006. Until then, Dr. Buchholz will remain in charge of his projects in the area of network integration for renewable energy forms and will also continue to serve in various bodies at PTD.

Prof. Wellssow studied at the TU Stuttgart (Stuttgart Technical University) from 1981 to 1984, where he majored in high voltage engineering and power transmission. He then worked as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Electric Power Supply at the TU Darmstadt, where he received his doctorate in 1986. From 1984 to 1996 he headed the Department for Computer Applications at the then Research Association for High Voltage and High Current Engineering (FGH) in Mannheim, taking overall charge there as Chairman in 1997. From 2003 until he joined Siemens, Prof. Wellssow was Managing Director of IDS Gesellschaft für Informations-, Datenübertragungs- und Steuerungssysteme mbH (IDS Company for Information, Data Transmission and Control Systems) in Ettlingen. He has been Professor of Electrical Power Engineering at the University of Siegen since 1996. Prof. Wellssow has also been a member of numerous study groups in bodies such as Cigré, ETG. DKE, DVG, VDEW, VDN, IEC and IEEE .

Siemens PTD took over the power network planning activities of Shaw Power Technologies Ing, USA, and the British Shaw Power Technologies International Ltd., (known in the industry as PTI) at the beginning of 2005. The former Network Planning & Consulting Subdivision was merged together with the two new acqusitions to form the new Power Technologies Subdivision. Siemens will keep the German and American power network planning systems in the portfolio in addition to the key activities of Consulting and Training. Both product lines will benefit from mutual synergies when it comes to further development.

The Service Division of Siemens PTD, to which Power Technologies belongs, offers individually tailored services such as network planning, training, project management, maintenance, logistics and modernization for power transmission and distribution networks over their entire life cycle.

SOURCE: Siemens