IEEE Power & Energy Magazine - September/October 2020 - 4

from the editor

John Paserba

hydroelecric power
its past, present, & future

Changing of the
Changing of the Guard
In the July/August issue of IEEE Power
& Energy Magazine, our editor-inchief announced the final issue of his
tenure, under the heading, "Changing of the Guard." Please join me in a
heartfelt thank you to Mike Henderson
for his excellent work and dedication to
the pages of this magazine for 22 issues
and for his prior service as an Editorial Board member, guest editor, and
author. In my role as associate editor,
History, Mike reached out to me to
serve as interim editor-in-chief for the
September/October and November/
December issues, and I immediately
agreed. How could I say no to a longtime fellow New York Yankees Major
League Baseball fan?
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Date of current version: 19 July 2020

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2021 issue, Steve Widergren will
be the editor-in-chief, and I will
return to the friendly confines of
my role as associate editor. Steve
has been a PES member for 45
years, with the good fortune to
work for major, innovative utilities
early in his career before spending
nearly 20 years with a solutions
provider for power-control-center
systems and an equivalent amount
of time doing power systems research at a U.S. Department of
Energy nat iona l l a b o r a t o r y.
His experience straddles the crossroads where the iron and copper of
power engineering meet the bits and
bytes of the computer science that now
permeate all business, art, and societal
endeavors. He brings a love of writing
and a resolute commitment to the magazine's mission: covering interesting
power engineering topics in a plain,
straightforward manner that educates
all members of our profession as well
as others who take an interest in our
industry. Please join me in welcoming
him as editor-in-chief and offer him
your full support, be it as an Editorial
Board member, guest editor, author,
columnist, or cherished reader.
FOOTAGE FIRM, INC.

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WHAT A YEAR 2020 HAS
been so far. The biggest story
h a s , of c o u r s e , b e e n t h e
C OVID-19 pandemic and its
global impacts. So much has
changed: the way we do business, the way we travel, our
meetings and conferences, and
how we interact with each other.
As we all transition through wave
one, wave two, or a quiescent period of the movement of this virus
across the globe, our thoughts
and sympathies are with everyone
who has been adversely impacted in
any way. Please continue to make wise
choices and be safe.

The IEEE Power & Energy Society
(PES), under the leadership of Vice
President of Publications Bikash Pal,
launched a search and swiftly found
an excellent candidate as a successor to
Mike. We are pleased to announce that,
effective with the January/February

In This Issue

Mike Henderson

The theme of this issue is the past,
present, and future of hydroelectric
power. We are fortunate to represent
authors and topics from around the
globe through four feature articles:
✔ a view from India that looks at
the development of hydropower
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