Greg Welch has over 35 years of experience in planning, operations and management of electric utility systems.  He worked for three years as an Executive Consultant at ABB, Inc. prior to starting his own business.  At Commonwealth Edison of Chicago he served as the Vice President of Technical Services and Supply Management for the Transmission and Distribution business unit.  Before that he had been Manager of Distribution Planning and Reliability.  He also held general management positions at Com Ed and managed customer service, revenue metering and engineering departments.  Greg is experienced in the planning and analysis of the interconnected bulk power system, generation planning, distribution system planning and distribution system design.

Greg served as Vice Chair of the Power System Planning and Implementation Committee of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (2000 - 2005) and is a Past Chair (1998 -1999) of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) Distribution Committee.  He has developed, chaired and participated on panel discussions of distribution automation, distributed generation, distribution and transmission planning, competitive electricity markets, and aging T&D infrastructure.  Greg is a co-author with H. Lee Willis and Randall Schrieber of Aging Utility Infrastructures, Marcel Dekker, Inc., NY.