Lanny Nickell has been named president and chief executive officer of Southwest Power Pool, effective April 1. Nickell is currently SPP’s executive vice president and chief operating officer.
Nickell has more than three decades of transmission planning and operations experience in the electric utility industry. He joined SPP, based in Little Rock, in 1997 as an operations engineer, was promoted to the management team in 1998, became vice president of operations in 2008 and vice president of engineering in 2011, and was promoted to chief operating officer in 2020. Before joining SPP, he served in various engineering roles with the Public Service Co. of Oklahoma and Central & South West Services.
Nickell received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Tulsa and is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program
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