Associate Director of Engineering
Commonwealth Associates
IAN HUTT, PE, PMP, is an industry published leader and expert in renewable technologies, particularly solar, BESS, and microgrids. As an experienced project manager in electrical power systems, he specializes in relay protection engineering, coordination, arc flash analysis, short circuit analysis, transmission planning, electromagnetic field analysis, and automatic generation control using CAPE, ASPEN, CYME, PSCAD, EMTP-RV, ETAP, SKM Power Tools, EasyPower, CDEGS, AcSELerator QuickSet, PowerBase, PSS/E and TRANSMISSION 2000®. Ian presented “A deep dive into BESS arc flash “ for a CIGRE webinar in 2022, “Battery Storage Integration with Renewable Energy: Future of BESS” at the 2020 Experience Power Conference and “Current Challenges in BESS” at IDEA2021 Conference in 2021. Mr. Hutt holds Bachelor of Science degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Business Administration from Central Michigan University.