Grid Focus LLC is a partnership between industry veterans Andrew Art, Donald Morrow, and Ken Lotterhos. Our team also includes David Wojtczak who serves as a Senior Advisor. Grid Focus LLC team members have many years of experience providing services for utilities, municipalities, independent system operators (ISOs), developers, regulators and other industry participants. We have helped educate and train clients in a variety of areas, including renewable energy integration, system resiliency, open access transmission tariffs (OATTs), interconnection agreements, business practices, energy market expansion, energy policy, transmission development, technology adoption and reliability compliance.
Andrew Art is a Founder and Partner at Grid Focus LLC. Andrew trained as an attorney and practiced law for 19 years at two Washington, D. C.-based firms. Andrew’s legal training focused on federal energy law, administrative law, regulations pertaining to municipal utilities, and electric reliability compliance. For the past three years, Andrew has served as a consultant helping clients track and review emerging developments in western markets, evaluate market participation opportunities, implement new wholesale services and develop business practices to remain compliant with federal, state and local rules and regulations. Andrew frequently provides training to clients on the requirements of federal energy regulations. Andrew speaks regularly on emerging trends in energy regulation and reliability compliance affecting municipal utilities.
Don Morrow is a Founder and Partner at Grid Focus LLC. Don has worked exclusively in the energy industry for over 3 decades and brings a unique combination of technical knowledge and business strategy experience. Don has advised clients in utility business models, renewable integration, organizational design, energy policy, technology implementation, system operations, system planning, grid resiliency and NERC compliance. Don has been in consulting since 2006, providing consulting services to his clients and as a senior manager overseeing service offerings and project quality. Don began his career at Madison Gas & Electric Company where he served as Senior Director, Systems Operations overseeing the operation of the MGE electric and gas systems. Don was also part of the formation team to create American Transmission Company a for-profit, stand-alone transmission company in the upper Midwest. At ATC, Don served as Director of System Operations where he was responsible for leading the system operations department during start-up. He also served as the Director of System Planning & Protection where he oversaw the system planning activities and was responsible for the annual transmission capital budget and the 10 year capital forecast.
Ken Lotterhos has over 35 years of experience with utility operations and regulatory and legal issues, as well as in-depth knowledge of the federal regulatory matters relating to energy delivery. Before joining Grid Focus, he was a former Partner at Guidehouse, Inc., and Managing Director at Navigant Consulting, Inc. Ken also served as the head of NERC Enforcement, as Associate General Counsel and Director of Enforcement. He has also worked for the Northeast Power Coordination Council (NPCC), one of the NERC Regional Entities. While at NERC, Ken led the NERC Enforcement team in the early stages of NERC’s investigation of the Southwest Blackout. He has recently assisted both regulatory and regulated entities in the area of Mandatory Reliability Standards compliance and has presented tutorials and webinars on NERC Standards compliance. He has also co-authored a guidebook on NERC Mandatory Electric Reliability Compliance published by LexisNexis – Matthew Bender. He has served as a member of the NERC Bulk Electric System (BES) Rules of Procedure Drafting Team and as a member of the sub-team developing the BES technical exception criteria.
David Wojtczak has over 40 years of experience with utility planning. David has worked exclusively in the energy industry and brings a unique combination of technical knowledge and business strategy experience. Dave has experience in distribution and transmission planning, distribution and transmission standards, asset management, power plant systems, system planning, interconnections, renewable integration, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), grid resiliency, NERC task force and compliance, utility regulatory oversight, and technology strategy/implementation. David has worked at the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin overseeing the engineering staff; American Transmission Company where he served as the Manager of Engineering Services; and Wisconsin Electric Power Company as Senior Engineer in distribution planning.
