About | Energy Forge Works, LLC

Our story

Energy Forge Works started with a simple observation: utilities still have problems the big vendors have walked away from, and smaller utilities need help sized to them. After more than four decades in the electric utility business, on both the utility and the manufacturer side, our founder set out to fill both gaps.

Today the company brings together people who have worked at every level of the grid, from board-level meter design to cooperative distribution systems to large-scale load flow studies.

Utility solutions, by utility people.

Meet the founder

R. Bryan Seal, PE, Retired

Bryan has spent more than four decades in the electric power industry, first on the utility side, then on the product side. He spent 23 years at Mississippi Power Company, part of The Southern Company. His work there included distribution engineering and operations as well as metering system design and maintenance. Along the way, he took on division substation maintenance and system-wide power quality studies. He was also an early leader in the company's AMI development.

At SmartSynch, Bryan led the hardware, firmware, software, and certification organization that created North America's first carrier-certified, cellular-communicating residential AMI meter. At Itron, he was focused primarily on the electric cooperative and municipal market, supporting sales efforts nationwide. He also helped build Itron's first cloud-based AMI offering and shaped its AMI approach for the public power market. Today he keeps busy at Wasion Americas, helping its team and customers with distribution transformer needs and making sure customer specifications are met.

He holds six patents in utility telecommunications and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Mississippi State University. A frequent presenter at utility meter schools and industry events, he speaks on everything from metering fundamentals to using AI to find anomalies in meter data.

Bryan and his wife of 48 years, Marjie, live on 20 acres in Mississippi. They have three children, including two sons who are Mississippi State electrical engineering graduates and part of Energy Forge Works, and nine grandchildren. They're active in their church and community.

The team

R. Bryan Seal, PE, Retired

Owner

Distribution, substations, power quality, metering, utility communications, and analog and digital circuit design. Six patents in utility telecommunications.

Jeremiah Seal

Data & Analytics Lead

Mississippi State electrical engineering graduate. Twenty years at Mississippi electric cooperatives: AMI projects, distribution and substation work, and fiber and electrical infrastructure. Leads our standards, data, and analytics work.

Ethan Seal

Power Systems Analyst

Mississippi State electrical engineering graduate. Five years in load flow and interconnection work for large new loads and solar generation, on utility systems up and down the East Coast.