ELECTRIC CONNECTION, INC. Keith P Ellis, President & CEO Electric Connection has been formed to provide the Electric Utility Industry an independent resource for
information and education on Power Transformers and their accessories with a particular focus on
Bushings. The following three services are tuned to meet the needs of Utilities throughout the United
States and Canada.
Services offered:
Transformer Training:
Bushing Consulting:
Transformer Failure Investigations:
At your location, for as many of
your people that need training,
Electric Connection is offering 7
four hour training tracks;
Electric Connection is offering its’
expertise in transformer bushings to
Transformer Consultants that may
need, from time to time, help when
their client has an uncommon
question or issue with any brand of
bushing.
When a transformer failure occurs
and the bushing is a suspect, the
Utility needs an independent
bushing expert that can help them
manage the investigation and
reach the root cause of the failure.
Four tracks covering detailed
aspects of transformer
performance, construction,
testing, installation, operation,
inspections, maintenance, and
field diagnostic tests.
Two tracks covering detailed
aspects of bushing designs,
technologies, selection and
replacement.
One track covering Load Tap
Changers, including Reactance,
Resistance, In-tank and on-tank
models, including design,
construction, performance,
maintenance and testing.
With more than 25 years of
comprehensive bushing experience;
Electric Connection will be able to
supplement your Transformer
Consultant’s bushing knowledge,
insuring that they meet all your
expectations.
The original transformer OEM and
bushing OEM have a vested
interest in the outcome of the
investigation. Electric Connection
can provide the experience to
insure that the bushing will get a
complete examination regarding
the root cause of the failure.
If the Utility requests Electric
Connection to get involved with a
particular bushing question or issue
on direct basis, Electric Connection
would be available to work with them
as their Bushing Consultant.
Working with the transformer OEM
and bushing OEM; Electric
Connection will provide the
independent eye that will prevent a
rush to judgment before all
avenues have been investigated.
Electric Connection and its
industry recognized associates
provide their many years of
power transformer experience
for these training tracks.
Electric Connection is offering the Consulting services on an hourly basis at competitive rates. For a
quotation for any of the services listed above, please let me know and I will personally prepare your
Electric Connection quotation.
On the next page, please review the experience I am bringing to Electric Connection, Inc.
Thank you for consideration and support,
Keith P Ellis
641 Kingsway Drive Office: 615‐847‐2157 Cell 615‐847‐2308 Old Hickory, TN 37138‐2313 Email: keithcota@aol.com Website: www.electric‐connectionco.com 1 ELECTRIC CONNECTION, INC. Keith P Ellis, President & CEO I have worked in the transformer industry from 1971 to the present. Since 1986 I have concentrated my
efforts on transformer components with expertise in bushings and on-load tap changers that are applied
to power transformers. I am a long time member of IEEE, PES, Transformers Committee, Bushing
Subcommittee, past Working Group Chair for C57.19.00 and active in many other product related
working groups. I am an active member of IEEE 693, Seismic Substation Standards.
During my nearly 40 year career in the power industry I spent 22 years with one company and the
remaining time with another company. The first company started out as RTE/ASEA and ended up as
ABB Power T&D Company and the other was Emile Haefely & Company and ended up as Trench Ltd.
Starting in 1986 I have devoted all my efforts selling, marketing and promoting transformer components. I
became the leading expert on load tap changers for ABB in the US, achieving numerous sales awards
on worldwide basis. I helped move production for the type UZE OLTC from Sweden to the US. While with
ABB I worked with the bushing engineers in Sweden to develop a line of IEEE standard bushings for the
US market. Before the project was complete ABB purchased the Westinghouse T&D business, making
this effort unnecessary. My last position with ABB was Sales Manager for the Components division.
I was than recruited by Haefely of Switzerland to develop a line of IEEE/ANSI standard bushings for the
US market. This effort began in 1992 and was completed by 1995 with bushings from 25 kV class to 500
kV class, 1800 kV BIL (basic insulation level). In 1995 I conceived a new concept in IEEE standard
bushings that has revolutionized the bushing industry; low voltage, high current draw lead bushings. The
key to the success of this new concept is that it is interchangeable with the old type of fixed conductor
bushings so that existing power transformers can be converted and have all draw lead connect bushings.
The new line of IEEE standard bushings became so successful that by the end of 1995 it was agreed to
move production of the new IEEE standard bushings to Canada. I spent 1996 and half of 1997 in
Canada transferring the bushing technology to Canada, laying out the new plant, teaching people about
bushings and continued to promote and sell bushings throughout the US.
During this time I wrote all the instruction manuals, sales brochures, developed the technical order
number system for the bushing line and administered all pricing and supply contracts with large OEM
accounts.
With my work completed in Canada the company moved us back to the US, to Nashville, TN where I was
made Bushing Product Manager and OEM Sales Manager, Americas providing technical bushing
support for customers and managing sales to all OEM accounts in the Americas.
Over the past 10 years I have been actively promoting bushings with silicone rubber insulators (SRI) and
today, SRI bushings are an important aspect of Trench’s bushing business. I have had published
numerous bushing papers through organizations, such as IEEE, Doble Engineering, TJ/H2b, INMR
Conference and for internal use.
Lastly and most important has been my years of education in what today is called compliance training.
This provides me with advanced knowledge regarding ethics, diversity and compliance in every business
facet and transaction.
641 Kingsway Drive Office: 615‐847‐2157 Cell 615‐847‐2308 Old Hickory, TN 37138‐2313 Email: keithcota@aol.com Website: www.electric‐connectionco.com 2