Kevin Damron has years of experience in power system protection at Avista Utilities, SEL, and as a consultant. Kevin’s current role is System Protection Manager at Avista. Kevin actively participates in the industry by being involved with the Western Protective Relaying Conference (WPRC), Hands-On Relay School, WECC committees.
Kevin has written several papers on protective relay applications and lessons learned. Kevin also has taught an undergraduate power system protection class at Gonzaga from 2013 - 2020 and is an IEEE Senior Member.
He served the program as the first T&D Industry Liaison Engineer, tasked with building a structure of support from the power industry to advise the program moving forward. He now has returned to the advisory board as a member.