Forrest Suter
Senior Electrical Engineer at HDR
- Role
- Senior Electrical Engineer at HDR
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Forrest Suter
Forrest Suter is a licensed Professional Engineer in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Maine with over fourteen years of experience in electrical engineering supporting power generating (nuclear, fossil, and hydropower) facilities, pumped storage hydropower, battery energy storage, and microgrids. He also has over 10 years of prior experience in industrial maintenance, which provided him with unique insights into the design, construction, operation and preventive maintenance of industrial and power facilities. Mr. Suter\'s engineering design experience includes engineering research for power system studies and engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) projects as well as design-only projects for various facilities. Major responsibilities have included inspecting facilities for recommending upgrades, preparing upgrades and new designs for facility power distribution, protective relaying, lighting, and grounding systems. This has involved preparing power system (AC and DC) calculations using either ETAP or SKM software, such as load flow, short circuit, motor starting, coordination, fast bus transfer analyses, battery sizing, and arc flash. In addition, he has developed feasibility studies for improving client\'s electrical distribution systems reliability with the creation of microgrids.
Experience
Senior Electrical Engineer
Jun 2024 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US
Senior Electrical Engineer in support of power generating facilities, pumped storage hydropower, battery energy storage, and microgrids.
Education
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
2012 — 2017
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering
2006 — 2011
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