Matt O'connell
Principal Resource Planner at San Diego Gas & Electric
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt O'connell is a Principal Resource Planner with over a decade of experience shaping resource planning, modeling, and regulatory strategy for California utilities. At SDG&E he leads a team that delivers production cost, capacity expansion, and portfolio reliability analyses for Integrated Resource Plans and critical CPUC filings, ensuring alignment with GHG and renewable targets while optimizing cost and reliability. His background at NREL in multi-sector production cost modeling and high-renewable integration research gives him deep technical expertise in variable renewables, storage, and transmission expansion. Trained as a mechanical engineer (M.S., Colorado State University) and a Six Sigma Green Belt, he blends rigorous data-driven modeling with practical project delivery and stakeholder coordination. Notably, he moves fluidly between research and utility operations, translating cutting-edge modeling techniques into actionable procurement and policy decisions for a cleaner grid.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State UniversitySix Sigma Green BeltBS, Mechanical Engineering, BS, Mechanical Engineering at Rowan University
Github Skills (13)
matpower10
prediction-model10
energy10
grid-system10
energy-data10
power-systems10
modeling-tool9
grid9
modelica9
testing9
reliability9
energy-system9
spice7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NREL/MAGMA
Apr 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:123 commits, 2 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 years
IMMM-SFA/plexos_run_query
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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