Southwest Power Pool names new vice presidents of markets, engineering
Little Rock-primarily based regional transmission firm Southwest Electric power Pool (SPP) has introduced improvements to its senior management staff.
Efficient Jan. 1, Antoine Lucas, vice president of engineering, will start in a new position as vice president of markets. David Kelley, director of seams and tariff expert services, will grow to be vice president of engineering.
According to a information release, Lucas will oversee the growth, style and design and provision of all SPP industry companies. He will work with stakeholders to assure continued provision of productive and dependable wholesale electrical power markets below the SPP Open Accessibility Transmission Tariff and build more companies.
Bruce Rew, senior vice president of functions, will proceed to lead SPP’s real-time operations, operational planning and analysis and dependability coordination initiatives. Also, Rew will proceed to oversee the growth of SPP’s regional transmission organization footprint, which include in the West and the Western Interconnection.
According to the launch, the improvements allow SPP to continue to focus on the reputable procedure of the bulk electrical technique although managing its escalating markets. These include things like the working day-ahead wholesale Integrated Market SPP has managed in the Eastern Interconnection considering that 2014 and in the Western Interconnection its Western Power Imbalance Services market place that started in February 2021 and the Marketplaces+, a suite of market place solutions being designed in collaboration with western utilities.
“I appear forward to getting on this new part,” Lucas stated. “I’m excited to spouse with our excellent personnel and stakeholders to make from the recent achievements of SPP’s markets and meet up with the challenges and possibilities of the potential.”
Kelley will be liable for the ongoing improvement of SPP’s transmission enlargement approach, administration of generator interconnection and transmission service research processes, administration of regional source adequacy procedures and general performance of engineering reports.
“I am incredibly psyched to lead the talented, really hard-doing work personnel of SPP’s engineering corporation and to go on serving our stakeholders in assistance of SPP’s mission,” Kelley reported. “Our field is ripe for innovation on so quite a few fronts, and SPP is effectively positioned to supply a brighter long term for our region.”
Kelley has additional than 20 yrs of expertise in the electrical utility sector and has served the earlier 14 a long time in several engineering and marketplaces management roles at SPP. He also serves on the board of administrators of the Division of Science and Engineering of the Arkansas Financial Enhancement Fee. He earned a bachelor’s diploma in electrical engineering from Louisiana Tech College, an MBA from the College of Arkansas at Little Rock and is a certified engineer in Arkansas.
SPP manages the electrical grid throughout 17 central and western U.S. states, including Arkansas, and gives electrical power products and services to buyers in the Jap and Western interconnections.
