William Thomas – Best APEX Presentation Award

William works for Mercury energy and won the Best Apex Presentation for his paper ‘Developing secondary system upgrades: a case study of the Waitaki 110V DC distribution upgrade’.

William has been working with Meridian Energy as a Graduate Electrical Engineer for the past two years following the completion of a Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Honours at the University of Canterbury. He is commonly working on the delivery of asset management projects, providing technical resources for design, installation and commissioning of generation secondary systems. His past projects have included the end-of-life replacement of battery backup systems and local service transformers, supporting the deployment of ICT infrastructure on generation sites and analysis of generation trends and capability. William enjoys the hands-on nature of asset management engineering and getting onsite amongst the action.

You can view William’s presentation here along with all other APEX presentations