Bai K. Blyden
Bai K Blyden Over his 40 year professional career has contributed his expertise to over forty major and minor power plant projects and their associated interconnections around the world. This involved detailed power plant and transmission systems design engineering, Systems and operations planning, project development feasibility assessment oversight and construction management.
Among his more notable assignments, Mr. Blyden served as Project Manager on the Calpine team, which planned a 70,000 MW development program which included EPC oversight. Within this scope he also served as a site Construction Manager for the Emergency Peaker Program which constructed and commissioned eleven (11x 45 MW) General Electric simple cycle gas turbine units in response to California executive order D-26-01 issued to protect the grid around Silicon Valley at the peak of the 2001 California energy crisis. Mr. Blyden has also worked on large Nuclear, Hydro and mid to small distributed energy systems having held senior technical consulting and staff positions with various utilities, AE and Manufacturing firms such as TVA; Pacific Gas & Electric; Bechtel, ABB, Cummins, The New York Power Authority, Texas Utilities. He is currently completing the updates on the electrical systems computer models for the 2 x 940 MW Plant Hatch power station at Southern Company as part of the Calculations Design Basis Validation Program for Configuration Management and Post Fukushima retrofits.
Mr. Blyden earned an MS.EE from Moscow Energetics Institute in Power Systems, Generation and Industrial Distribution Systems. And has been awarded numerous professional development certifications and accreditations. Fluent in multiple languages which include English, French, Russian, Spanish and Arabic. Mr. Blyden brings a multicultural mindset and an exceptional relationship building acumen. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and serves as Chair of the IEEE PES International Practices subcommittee for Africa and is an IEEE Smart Village Global Ambassador. He is also a Worldreader global ambassador in addition to serving as a Senior Advisor to Centric Ltd a commercial startup with 21st century structurally advanced and sustainable Green building systems. He is the founder of the Strategic consulting group BBRM Group, LLC.
