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PAUL M. ANDERSON
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... Many of the Midwestern power companies used the network analyzer on the Iowa State College campus in Ames to study their power networks. As he set up this roomful of analog devices that modeled the Iowa power grid, Paul Anderson knew that the days of such devices were numbered.
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... Paul was recruited by the Electric Power Research Institute to be the founding manager for its Grid Operations and Planning Program (1975–1978) , where he sponsored the development of new simulation packages that (or their suc
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... Paul died peacefully at home on April 26, 2011, in San Ramon, California, while listening to Beethoven after complications following congestive heart failure and a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. He will be remembered for his remarkable contributions to the field of electric power engineering as a researcher, professor, and author, as well as being a loving father and family man.
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