Jean-Jacques Archambault

Jean -Jacques Archambault ( b. 1919; † 23 December 2001) was a Canadian electrical engineer and engineer. He developed at Hydro -Québec, the world's first three-phase transmission system with high voltage of 735 kV.

The Canadian Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE) assigns him to honor the scholarship Jean -Jacques Archambault Award of Merit for work in the field of electrical power engineering.

Working

The hydropower stations of Hydro-Québec in Eastern Canada are hundreds of kilometers away from major population centers. For economical as possible transmission of the produced electrical energy over long distances to consumers, he developed in the 1960s, the world's first three-phase transmission system that works with high voltage of 735 kV instead of 315 kV then usual. The world's first 735- kV line from the Rivière Manicouagan after Boucherville near Montreal was put into operation on 29 November 1965.