Full Name
Mark Sims
Job Title
Senior Manager, Long Term & Interregional Planning
Company
PJM
Speaker Bio
As Sr. Manager of the Long Term and Interregional Transmission Planning Department, Mr. Sims is responsible for longer term transmission planning, including FERC Order 1920, and interregional transmission planning.
Mr. Sims joined PJM in 1999 as a power systems engineer and has held several management positions in PJM, including Infrastructure Coordination, Interconnection Analysis and Transmission Planning.
Mr. Sims earned both a B.S.E.E. and a Master of Engineering in Systems Engineering from Penn State University.
Previously, he held various leadership roles with GE and ABB, providing products, projects and services to the electric utility industry. These leadership roles included engineering, operations and general management for high-voltage circuit breakers, transformers, power cables, EPC substations, power systems consulting, Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS), and High-Voltage DC (HVDC) transmission systems.
Mr. Sims joined PJM in 1999 as a power systems engineer and has held several management positions in PJM, including Infrastructure Coordination, Interconnection Analysis and Transmission Planning.
Mr. Sims earned both a B.S.E.E. and a Master of Engineering in Systems Engineering from Penn State University.
Previously, he held various leadership roles with GE and ABB, providing products, projects and services to the electric utility industry. These leadership roles included engineering, operations and general management for high-voltage circuit breakers, transformers, power cables, EPC substations, power systems consulting, Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS), and High-Voltage DC (HVDC) transmission systems.
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