Biography – Tim Vigil

Tim Vigil

Senior Vice President and Colorado River Storage Project Management Center Manager
Western Area Power Administration

Tim Vigil was named Senior Vice President and Colorado River Storage Project Manager in August 2020.

Vigil leads all power marketing and operations activities for CRSP Management Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Energy Management and Marketing Office in Montrose, Colorado. CRSP MC’s employees manage the sale, purchase, wheeling, interchange and transmission of energy for about 150 retail energy customers and other utilities in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.

CRSP MC markets power from 11 hydroelectric powerplants and delivers it across more than 2,300 miles of transmission lines and 35 high-voltage transformers. On average, the powerplants produce about 5.7 billion kilowatt-hours of energy annually, which can provide 100 percent of electricity needs for an estimated 527,000 American households.

Most recently, Vigil was the Vice President of Power Marketing for CRSP MC, a position he began 2019. Vigil arrived at WAPA in 2001 after serving in the U.S. Navy. He started at WAPA in Rocky Mountain’s Power Contracts and Energy Services office. Between 2003 and 2019, Vigil worked at the CRSP Energy Management and Marketing Office in various roles, including real-time marketer, realtime supervisor and EMMO manager. Vigil holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the California State University-Northridge.