Mr. Casazza is a former member of the Energy Engineering Board of the National Research Council in Washington, D.C. He has also been a member of key committees of the U.S. Energy Association (World Energy Conference), Edison Electric Institute, CIGRE, the Electric Power Research Institute, the Gas Research Institute, the New Jersey Governor's Advisory Panel on Solar Energy, the New Jersey Advisory Panel on Cogeneration, the New Jersey Energy Research Institute, the North American Electric Reliability Council, and the USA/USSR Joint Commission on Scientific and Technical Cooperation.
Mr. Casazza was educated at the Cooper Union School of Engineering in New York from 1941 until 1943 and received his B.E.E. from Cornell University in 1945. He also completed General Electric Company's Power Systems Engineering Course and the American Management Association's Management Course. Mr. Casazza is the recipient of special citations from the Council Internationale des Grands Reseaux Electriques a Haute Tension (CIGRE) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has also been active in CIGRE since 1964, and was awarded the Philip Sporn Award in 1994 for his "cumulative career contributions to the advance of the concept of system integration in the theory, design, and/or operation of large, high-voltage electric systems in the United States."
Mr. Casazza, IEEE Life Fellow, has been involved with the IEEE of over 58 years. Mr. Casazza was awarded in 1990 IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award. He received the United States Activities Board Citation of Honor in 1985. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and has been responsible for consulting projects in South American, Asia, Africa, Canada, Australia, and Europe. Mr. Casazza has testified extensively before Federal and state regulatory, legislative, and judicial bodies on many issues of national and local importance. He is the author of more than 70 publications on a broad scope of energy topics, and five books. His latest book, "Understanding Electric Power Systems - An Overview of the Technology and the Marketplace" was published by Wiley/IEEE Press in November of 2003. His novel, "Sham? Shame!", which explores in terms of the people involved what has happened in the electric power industry and why, was published in July of 2001, and predicted a major blackout in August of 2004.