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Dr Graeme Chown - Executive Director (South Africa)
Dr Graeme Chown is a Executive Director for PPA Energy (Pty) Ltd in South Africa and manages all local activities.
Graeme is a power systems specialist. His core skills are in ancillary services, SCADA and real time power control. Graeme joined PPA Energy in January 2005. Previously he worked for 18years for Eskom, the main power utility in South Africa. He has a PhD in Electrical Engineering and is a member of the South African Institute for Electrical Engineers.
He specialises Automatic Generation Control, constrained generation dispatch, training simulator and load forecast applications, SCADA system, Grid Code, energy market design, ancillary services and power station control.
Graeme has written many papers for the IEEE, SAIEE and other journals on the topics of ancillary services and frequency control. He is the South African representative for PPA Energy and manages all local activities.
Language skills: English and Afrikaans
Contact graeme.chown@ppaenergy.co.za