Kevin Coffee

Kevin is the Vice President of Electric Operations at ZGlobal with over 36 years of hands-on experience in the energy industry. Kevin began his career as an electrical design engineer at Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E) Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. After his time at Diablo Canyon, he worked on implementing PG&E’s first generation of energy management system real-time power system applications used to monitor PG&E’s generation and transmission system. He has also worked in PG&E’s power and transmission contracts department where he negotiated and administered both FERC and CPUC jurisdictional contracts as well as provided testimony for PG&E’s electricity procurement operations under the CPUC’s Energy Resource Recovery Account (ERRA) and Energy Cost Adjustment Clause (ECAC) proceedings. After the California Energy Crisis of 2000, Kevin headed up the effort to reestablish PG&E’s electricity procurement desk in order to manage PG&E’s generation fleet that included hydro, natural gas, qualifying facilities, nuclear and renewable resources. These resources supply PG&E’s load and interact with the California Independent System Operator’s market.

Since 2010, Kevin has led ZGlobal’s Electric Operations team that provides custom designed services to clients that include energy scheduling, reliability services, portfolio management, power purchase agreement support and enterprise energy management. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of California with Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University.