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Founder and Managing Director Jason Tranter appointed to EPRA board
CUYAHOGA FALLS, OHIO — Mobius Institute and the Electric Power Reliability Alliance (EPRA) announced that Mobius Institute founder and managing director Jason Tranter has joined the EPRA advisory board. The appointment is part of an alliance that formalizes the relationship between the two reliability organizations, with the goal of bringing electric power reliability expertise to a wider audience.
“It’s terrific to finally have a strong focus in the electrical area,” Tranter said. “There hasn’t been that sort of focus and attention for all the years I’ve been involved with [reliability].”
The new alliance is part of a concerted effort by EPRA and Mobius Institute to connect underserved industrial and commercial electric power reliability practitioners to the wider reliability world, and to offer a greater range of expertise to members of both organizations.
Tranter said that bringing EPRA into the Mobius RELIABILITY CONNECT® online community—and working alongside EPRA on issues related to electric power reliability—will benefit members of both organizations in two key areas: safety and plant performance.
“The primary beneficiaries of the alliance will be workers at the plant level who want to stay safe and have job security,” Tranter said. “Owners will see the benefit in improved performance.”
Both EPRA and Mobius Institute share expert-authored resources with members through conferences, seminars, and training, with both creating and curating digital content. Alan Ross, founder and president of EPRA, said that knowledge sharing in the electric power reliability space remains challenging because there is still little discussion around electrical assets in the reliability industry. The focus tends to be, he said, on mechanical assets.
“I’m a mechanical engineer, and I know first-hand that there is significant crossover between our member communities,” Ross said. “Alliances like this show just how much things are changing. Industrial America is starting to take notice and realize that without power, there is no reliability.”
Tranter said that EPRA and Mobius Institute have different areas of expertise but are aligned in the way they approach knowledge sharing.
“By bringing people together with all their different expertise and experience and focus areas, you end up with a much better outcome,” Tranter said. “When everyone’s trying to achieve the same goals, they come together and make something like this work.”
Ross said that EPRA is working towards developing a certification for electric power reliability practitioners, and that the alliance will explore working with Mobius Institute as a certifying body.
Source: EPRA