Ilkka Kovanen

Ilkka specializes in quantitative modeling and analysis of power markets and individual market resources, market research, thought leadership, and model development. His primary focus is the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland (PJM) market, with additional experience in the other U.S. power markets. Ilkka closely follows market developments in PJM and helps model and quantify their impacts. His work in PJM has covered the energy market, capacity market, ancillary services markets, transmission congestion, hedging agreements, and state energy policies.

Ilkka has supported a range of thermal, renewable, and storage clients in mergers and acquisitions transactions, development projects, and various internal analyses within the PJM market and across the U.S. He joined us in 2018 after completing his Master’s in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.