Vice President, Strategic Projects and Optimization, Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA)
Kenan Ögelman is LCRA’s vice president of Strategic Projects and Optimization, with responsibility for key initiatives within the LCRA Wholesale Power group.
Kenan joined LCRA in 2024 and brings over twenty-eight years of experience in the Texas power market. Prior to joining LCRA, Kenan worked at ERCOT as VP of Commercial Operations. Kenan was the director of Energy Market Policy for CPS Energy for seven years. In that role, he was responsible for managing CPS Energy’s activities at ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) and developing strategic policy. Previously, Kenan worked for the Texas Office of Public Utility Counsel, which represents residential electric consumers in Texas, as a senior economist from 1997 to 2007.
Kenan has held various leadership roles in the power industry, including Chairman of the ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee and the board of the Gulf Coast Power Association’s (GCPA), presiding as vice president in 2014 and president in 2015.
He graduated from Boston University in 1987 with a B.A. in International Relations. Subsequently, he received an M.A. in Economics from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1991 and an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from The University of Texas at Austin in 1995.