Agenda General Session

9.0Recognition and Awards Report – Bill Chiu

The Awards were presented at the Tuesday Awards Luncheon.

9.1Committee Membership Certificates

The Transformers Committee welcomes five new full committee members. Each of the following new members was presented with a membership certificate:

New Member	Affiliation
Diego M. Robalino	Megger
William J. Solano	ABB
Susmitha Tarlapally	ABB
Alexsandr Levin	Weidmann
Michael Miller	WE Energies

9.2General Service Awards Certificate of Appreciation

Certificate of Appreciations were presented to the following list of recipients for their contributions to the Transformers committee:

Name of Award Recipients	Affiliation	Contributions
Jorge O. Guerra	EFACEC	Meeting Host – Spring 2014
EFACEC Power Transformers, Inc.	EFACEC	Host Company– Spring 2014
Susan J. McNelly	Xcel Energy	Insulating Fluids Subcommittee Chair (2009–2013)
J. Edward Smith	H-J Enterprises	Awards Subcommittee Chair (2012–2013)
Steve Snyder	ABB	Outstanding Contributions to the Transformers Committee

9.3Special Awards

During the Fall 2013 meeting in St Louis, special recognition was given to Dr. Ramsis Girgis for his role in the presentation of the paper entitled “The Methodology For Evaluating The Impact of GIC and GIC Capability of Power Transformers” at the 2013 IEEE PES General Meeting in Vancouver, Canada. Due to a mis-interpretation on the criteria for the selection of the best paper award, we did not acknowledge the co-author of this paper. At this meeting in Savannah, the Transformers Committee acknowledged and recognized Mr. Kiran Vedante as the co-author of this paper that was selected to be the Best Paper by the PES Technical Council. A special Certificate of Appreciation was also presented to Mr. Kiran Vedante as the co-author of the 2013 PES GM best paper award for the Equipment and Load Characteristic category.