Key Personnel - Mike Cannata

Key Personnel

John Antonuk

Robert Stright

Charles H. King

Donald T. Spangenberg, Jr.

John B. Adger, Jr.

Michael Cannata has spent his entire career in electric-utility bulk-power design, planning, construction, and regulatory review. He has held senior engineering technical management positions with major electric public utilities, he served the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission for many years as its chief engineer, and he has specialized in electricity transmission and distribution technical reviews and evaluations in his years as a senior consultant for Liberty.

He has taken a leading role in all of Liberty’s commission and industry work in examining electricity transmission and distribution service quality and reliability. He has also served for Liberty two New England commissions in examining major new transmission projects proposed to result in regional and international reinforcement of the grid in areas of significant economic growth.

Mr. Cannata has especially impressive credentials in the analysis of need and siting issues for transmission and substation facilities. He developed Public Service Company of New Hampshire bulk power supply plans and applications for Energy Facility Siting Committee in that state. Later, as chief engineer for the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission, he sat as a member of the Energy Facility Siting Committee, which held responsibility for one-stop siting approval for all facets of all large energy projects, including electric transmission lines, gas pipelines, power generation, and gas storage facilities. He also redrafted the Energy Facility Siting statute in New Hampshire.

Mike specializes in the following areas for Liberty:

Power system planning, design, construction, operations, and maintenance
Transmsission approval proceedings
Power plant operation and outage prudence
Field inspection of transmission and distribtuion facilities
ISO and power pool operations

Mike holds two masters degrees from Northeastern University, a master of science in electrical engineering, specializing in power systems, and an M.B.A. His bachelor of science degree, also from Northeastern is in electrical engineering with a specialization in power systems. Mike is a registered professional engineer.

Project Highlights

Mike has performed innumerable technical system analyses as an electric utility manager and reviewed them as a regulator and consultant. Analyses of system load flows and stability, protective system, relaying, surge protection, lightning protection, hydro generation development, and equipment and SCADA design typify his broad and deep familiarity with complex energy systems, at the management and technical levels.

Mike has been responsible for the development of electric utility engineering computer applications, generation and T&D expansion plans, system dispatch, operation, and control, load forecasting and energy management, and power pool financial and technical interfaces.

Mike was a key member of the Liberty technical team that performed for a large, multi-state southern utility a comprehensive analysis of transmission distribution, and generation design for operations in two different states.

Mike has been a lead technical evaluator in Liberty’s multi-year program for the Illinois Commerce Commission, where he has performed comprehensive technical assessments and field verification of Commonwealth Edison’s transmission and distribution system design, operation, and maintenance. He has also assessed the ability of protective equipment at Commonwealth Edison Company to operate properly during cascading system conditions.

He has performed evaluations of power plant management and outage performance for public service commissions and for public service commissions for Liberty and he served as Liberty’s specialist in interconnection and power system issues as part of Liberty’s oversight, for the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission in its management of the divestiture of the Seabrook nuclear power plant.

Mike is the primary technical advisor on two major, 345kV transmission-project applications in New England, one for the Vermont Public Service Board, and the other for the staff of the Maine Public Service Commission. He is responsible for providing assistance on need, alternatives, and engineering issues.

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