Government Awards and Honors
2005 Awards
PNNL Power Grid Expert Receives BPA Award
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researcher and Laboratory Fellow John Hauer received one of the Bonneville Power Administration's highest honors, the BPA Award for Exceptional Public Service.
Hauer is an internationally recognized expert in power system monitoring, analysis and control. After retiring from BPA in 1994, Hauer joined PNNL and continued his pioneering work in improving power system reliability. Although semi-retired from PNNL, Hauer still is active on BPA and Department of Energy projects.
For example, Hauer has been instrumental in the creation and implementation of technologies to reduce blackouts, such as the one experienced by the eastern United States and Canada in August 2003.
The award is part of BPA's 2005 Administrator's Excellence Awards program. It recognizes "outstanding achievements by employees whose innovation, initiative, superior service or courageous acts have made exceptional contributions to BPA's mission, the electric utility industry or to the local community." The Bonneville Power Administration, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of Energy.
Hauer is a 1961 electrical engineering graduate of Gonzaga University and received a Ph.D. in controls systems from the University of Washington in 1968. He is a licensed professional engineer and a life fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers. (announced 8/22/2005)