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Specialties that pay

• Protection and relaying

  Deciding how the grid detects a fault and isolates it in a few cycles. Chronically short of people.

• Transmission planning

  Modeling the grid ten years out and deciding what to build.

• Renewable interconnection studies

  Every new wind farm, solar farm and battery needs studies before it can connect. A growth area.

• Power electronics and high voltage direct current

  Converters, inverters and the long links that move bulk power.

• Grid operations

  Working at a regional grid operator, balancing supply and demand in real time.