Title: President
Company: Wernsing Consulting LLC
Location: Greer, New Jersey, United States
Richard “Dick” Wernsing, president at Wernsing Consulting LLC, has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Executives for dedication, achievements, and leadership in consulting.
With nearly six decades of experience working at Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G), Mr. Wernsing has built a successful career as an entrepreneur, specializing in the technology to improve customer reliability, and developed asset heath and risk management systems including materials management. He currently serves as president of Wernsing Consulting LLC, a position he has held since 2021, and as senior director at EV-Edison since 2022. Through Wernsing Consulting, he provides consultation services to many utilities, facilitates fleet conversions of heavy-duty vehicles, and collaborates with vendors to develop mobile energy storage solutions. He is also working with Rutgers University to research electric assets for New Jersey Transit, focusing on upgrading rail services and transitioning commercial buses to electric power. His prior experience includes serving as director of strategic reliability and delivery planning at PSEG from 2016 to 2021, manager of electric asset strategy at PSEG from 2009 to 2021, and reliability-centered maintenance expert at PSEG from 2007 to 2009. He earned a bachelor’s degree in power engineering from Newark College of Engineering, with a focus on advanced power systems.
Mr. Wernsing has delivered numerous technical presentations around the world, including on “Touchless Substation” and “Heavy and Medium Duty Vehicle Electrification” at DistribuTECH 2024, and regulatory roadblocks for electrification at T&D World 2023. He also presented on “Operational Excellence” at DistribuTECH 2012 in San Antonio and “Smart Grid Infrastructure and Intelligent Switching” at DistribuTECH 2011 in San Diego. In 2011, he also discussed next-generation communications for grid modernization as part of PSE&G’s Smart Grid Initiative. His earlier presentations include “Risk Management and Condition-Based Maintenance” at the EPRI Asset Management Group in 2010, and a talk on advanced distribution reliability schemes at the Georgia Tech Protective Relaying Conference. His expertise was also featured at Transmission and Distribution Europe 2009 in Barcelona, and at the OSIsoft International Users Conference in 2008 in Amsterdam. His insights on mobile computing at PSE&G were shared at the Panasonic Thought Leadership Forum in 2008, and he also addressed asset management and risk management at various SAP SAPPHIRE events and OSIsoft seminars.
Mr. Wernsing has been an active board member of “InfraShield” Labs and an advisory committee member for T&D World since 2021, and he has also served on the advisory committee for DISTRIBUTECH for the past 20 years. He has conceptualized and sponsored many operational systems at PSE&G. In the 1990s, he implemented a computer-controlled 900 MHz trucked radio system. In the 2000s, he conceptualized Customer Outage System (OMS) and in 2003 he conceptualized and implemented one of the first Asset Heath and Risk systems for PSE&G electric transmission and distribution systems in the United States, a system that continues to be in use today. In 2011 he worked with Schweizter Engineering to develop an “Advance Loop Scheme” improving distribution reliability by 90 percent using fiber optic communications between reclosers. Since that time, he has been working with other asset leaders in leveraging the benefits and cost savings, many millions of dollars annually. He takes great pride in his contributions to asset risk management and health monitoring technologies. Currently work with Heavy Duty vehicle electrication at Rutgers. Looking to the future, he is dedicated to continuing to assist others, especially the younger generation, in finding joy and success in their careers.
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