Advisory Board member George JEE
Ambient has an Advisory Board for the purpose of obtaining the advice of experienced, knowledgeable business people and professionals in areas that Ambient may require assistance, such as government policy, international relations, utility engineering and law. These gentlemen are all leaders in their respective fields.
Mr. George Jee is the Director of Resource Planning with Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. Mr. Jee has been on Ambient's Advisory Board since 2000. He has over 25 years of utility experience. Among his other responsibilities, Mr. Jee is leading a team at Con Edison in the evaluation and possible implementation of power line carrier access technology. Prior to his present position, Mr. Jee was a Director in Con Edison's Corporate Planning Department. He was also the Manager of Energy Strategy Development and was active in shaping Con Edison's business strategy in a deregulated energy market and was the project manager in the Company's divestiture of its electric generating assets.
Mr. Jee has an extensive background in transmission and distribution systems and also held the position of Manager of System Performance in the Company's Transmission Planning Department. He has authored papers in the area of power system optimization and generator prime mover modeling and served as an Industry Advisor to the Electric Power Research Institute in the application of optimization techniques in power flow simulations. Most recently, Mr. Jee co-authored with Mr. Ram Rao, Ambient's Chief Network Architect, and Dr. Yehuda Cern, Chief Engineer of Ambient, an IEEE paper (May 2003) entitled "Demonstration of the Technical Viability of PLC Systems on Medium and Low Voltage Lines in the United States."
Change effective June 1, 2009:
George Jee will move from director, Resource Planning, to assume a special assignment as director, Energy Management. He will be responsible for overseeing the company’s activities on the recently announced joint venture with the Long Island Power Authority for a major offshore wind farm located in the Atlantic Ocean.
Mr. Jee joined the company in 1975. Before his current position, Mr. Jee held various managerial positions in Transmission Planning, Generation Planning, and Corporate Planning. He had served as an industry advisor to the Electric Power Research Institute, and has authored papers in the areas of optimal power flow, gas turbine governor modeling, and broadband over power lines.
Mr. Jee holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Newark College of Engineering and a MS in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has completed the General Electric Power System Engineering course and PTI Distribution System Engineering course.
