Timothy J. Sparks

Timothy J. Sparks is vice president of electric grid integration for Consumers Energy, the principal subsidiary of CMS Energy. He is responsible for integrating all generation resource technologies with the company’s electric grid, and also leads the utility’s electric engineering function. He was named to this position in July 2017.

Sparks previously served as vice president of energy supply operations, including commodity purchasing and delivery, power supply cost recovery and gas cost recovery matters, generation dispatch and gas control operations, and regulatory compliance.

Previously, Sparks was director of fossil fuel supply and oversaw the procurement and transportation of fuel for the company’s fossil fuel generating plants. He helped develop the utility’s electric fuel cost recovery for regulatory filings and provided fuel price forecasts for electric rate cases and power supply cost recovery cases, and corporate planning.

Sparks’ prior roles include increasingly responsible engineering and management positions in the company’s electric system operations and electric transmission areas. He joined the company in 1990 as a graduate engineer and handled electric system, bulk power substation, distribution substation and customer substation planning for western Michigan.

Sparks graduated from Michigan Technological University with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He also received a master’s degree in business administration from Western Michigan University. Sparks is a registered professional engineer with the state of Michigan and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.