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Andy Kowalczyk
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Transmission Director for the Southern Renewable Energy Association
Great content from ESIG 😄
November 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It looks like MISO's routine price separation is supporting Ukraine today.

#energysky #transmissionwouldfixthis
August 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Same congestion pattern, different day in MISO South
August 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Vietnamese energy dominance with #windpower
April 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Next level distribution planning in Ho Chi Minh City.

I’ll add, contrary to my experience with Entergy NOLA. The power hasn’t flickered even a bit for 9 million people
April 2, 2025 at 7:53 AM
#energysky Where does one find SPP's ITP Futures forecasted buildout? Like what MISO provides in their Futures Series 1a report?
March 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The gap between the second and third meetings was 12 days (not counting Thanksgiving). Feedback requested, not reviewed by MISO's admission. What was reviewed was cherrypicked...

From December 6th ERAS Workshop Presentation
March 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I find this stakeholder process for MISO's ERAS proposal utterly absurd. The gap between the first and second meeting discussing their proposal was 2 whole weekdays. Feedback requested, not reviewed
March 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Well this is not nice
January 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
SPP wind looks like it's getting curtailed. Whether that's because they're trying to balance the system and are running into challenges, or because of congestion / constraints, it's hard to tell, but it looks like the latter considering the LMP map
January 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Imports in-to MISO have largely come from PJM's footprint for most of the day, reaching almost 5k in imports at one point. Less from other neighbors including SPP.
January 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
#energysky

Challenging demand conditions starting throughout MISO, but wind ramping up in both MISO and SPP.
January 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
First flurries coming down in NOLA
January 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
#energysky

Monitoring Winter Storm Enzo, both MISO and SPP are forecasting a decent amount of wind in the latter half of the 21st which coincides with some of the lowest temps.
This should be good for balancing out high wholesale costs, and SPP imports could be big given the temp difference
January 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
While I respect the very important efforts of Entergy in restoring power in the aftermath of extreme events, the deal is not just to be there as a disaster aid service, it’s to provide power 8765 hours of the year. It’s incongruous for them to be lauded with awards by their trade association.
January 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Currently not powering my life;(
January 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Remember when everyone was so worried about EV demand? So quaint
December 18, 2024 at 7:47 PM
First panel at the Tennessee Valley Solar and Storage conference in Huntsville, AL

Meeting Evolving Large Customer Needs for Clean Energy
November 20, 2024 at 3:09 PM
They're assuming a VERY quick turnaround, but aren't clear about any check on volume except to say they don't expect many applications to qualify.

The tricky aspect for an RTO that claims to be resource agnostic, is how energy storage would qualify, other than to say it's up to OMS
November 18, 2024 at 1:34 AM