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Farmer

Richard G. Farmer

  • Research Professor
School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
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Richard Farmer has over 50 years of electric power industry experience. He has been a teaching associate and adjunct professor at Arizona State University since 1966. He has co-authored a book on the application of series capacitors in power systems and has written over 40 industry papers.

Extra-high voltage (EHV) project planning and interaction of turbine generators with EHV transmission systems.

M.S. Electrical Engineering
Arizona State University 1964
B.S. Electrical Engineering
Colorado State University 1952

IEEE Fellow, NSPE Arizona Engineer of the Year, IEEE Power System Engineering Distinguished Service Award, IEEE Third Millennium Medal, IEEE Power System Dynamic Performance Committee Distinguished Service Award, IEEE Phoenix Section Senior Engineer of the Year Award, 2004, National Academy of Engineering Member, Colorado State University Distinguished Alumnus Award, IEEE Charles Concordia Power System Engineering Award. IEEE  Power Engineering Society Fellows Committee Chair.  National Academy of Engineering Peer Review Committee. 

S.R. Puchalapalli, R.G. Farmer, G.G. Karady, J. Hernandez, Y. Suh, “Z-Bus based Frequency Scanning Program for Sub-Synchronous Resonance Screening,”  Proceedings of 2007 IEEE Lausanne, Power Tech Conference, Lausanne Switzerland.

R.G. Farmer, B.L. Agrawal, and D.G. Ramey "Power System Dynamic Interaction with Turbine-Generators," Electric Power Engineering Handbook, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2007.

R.G. Farmer, E.H. Allen, “Power System Dynamic Performance Advancement From History of North American Blackouts,” Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE PES Power Systems Conference and Exposition, Oct. 29 – Nov. 1, 2006, Atlanta, GA.

Priyantha Sirisooriya, G.G. Karady,  R.G. Farmer, “A Flow-based Approach for Evaluating Fuel Cell Interconnections to a Distribution Feeder,” Proceedings of 2005 IEEE St. Petersburg Power Tech Conference.

E. Kyriakides and R.G. Farmer, “Modeling of Damping for Power System Stability Analysis,” Electric Power Components and Systems Journal, vol. 32, no. 8, 827-837, August 2004.

P.M. Anderson, and R.G. Farmer, “Series Compensation of Power Systems,” Encinitas, CA: PBLSH, Inc., 1996.