SPP has named Tim Vigil, chief member relations and strategy officer for the Pacific Northwest Generating Cooperative (PNGC), as director of the Market Monitoring Unit’s office dedicated to Markets+.
In the role, Vigil will lead the development of market monitoring reports and metrics for Markets+, manage processes for identifying and addressing market design flaws, monitor market operations functions and support a future surveillance team responsible for screening market participant behavior.
The new position within the MMU was created in advance of the RTO’s launch of its Western day-ahead and real-time market in 2027, SPP said in a press release.
Carrie Bivens, SPP’s vice president of market monitoring, said Vigil’s broad industry knowledge, strong market insight and long experience in the Western Interconnection “will be invaluable to our monitoring preparation efforts for the new market and future oversight responsibilities.”
SPP said Vigil was instrumental in forming and implementing SPP’s Western Energy Imbalance Service market. He chaired the stakeholder-led Western Markets Executive Committee from 2020-2021.
Vigil joins the SPP MMU from PNGC. He previously served as director of development-origination at NextEra Energy, COO at Delta-Montrose Electric Association and in various roles at the Western Area Power Administration. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from California State University Northridge.
The MMU is independent of the RTO and its contract services, including Markets+. It functions independently to avoid actual or apparent conflicts in its oversight role.
