Texas/ERCOT Power Blackout & PPL

David A. Quier is Vice President of Transmission & Substations for PPL Electric Utilities, the subsidiary that provides electric delivery services to 1.4 million customers over 10,000 square miles in Pennsylvania. He oversees the operations, planning, engineering, project & construction management, siting, real estate, compliance, and operations to ensure safe and reliable service while providing exceptional customer service at a reasonable cost. He also manages new transmission business ventures. 

Since joining PPL in 2007, Quier has been instrumental in helping to refocus the distribution system automation strategy to improve reliability performance. This includes directing the efforts to fully deploy smart grid switches on PPL Electric Utilities’ power grid. 

Before coming to PPL, Quier was a project engineer at F.L. Smidth, where he managed new mill installations in three different South American countries. Prior to that, he was a power plant engineer at WorleyParsons. 

Quier received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University, a Masters of Business Administration from the Pennsylvania State University and is a licensed professional engineer. He is currently a member of several industry organizations, including the North American Transmission Forum, the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, and WIRES Group. He is also a member of REACH, PPL’s Business Resource Group that focuses on improving the well-being of differently-abled employees. He is a native of Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he currently resides with his wife and two daughters.

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