High Voltage Power Transformers: State of the Art and Technological Innovations

Stefano Zunino is a senior expert on power system components and electric devices and risk manager at TSO TERNA, Italy. Previously, he worked on power system protection at Siemens. He has been a member of CIGRE since 2008 and of CEI since 2009. He is an expert in several IEC technical committees in charge of standardization of electric components, including TC 14 about power transformers, and he is Secretary of TC 33 about power capacitors.

Marino Sforna is presently head of the power system risk management unit at TSO TERNA, Italy, one of the largest transmission system operators in the world. He joined the former national power company ENEL in 1982; from 1987 to 1997, he was with the R&D Dept., and from 1997 to 2001, deputy manager of an Italian area control center and later, responsible for grid defense, restoration, protection systems, and control.

Fabrizio Ferrari is a senior consultant working with organizations such as CESI, major utilities such as EGP and A2A, and for transformer manufacturers including TAMINI Trasformatori S.r.l. He has experience in small, medium, and large power transformers and their main HV, MV, and LV components. He serves as a member of several specialist groups such as CIGRE A.2 and T&D Europe, and he is the chairman of the "Transformers Group" in ANIE Energia.