Consultant
Michael Colwell is a licensed professional engineer with more than fifty years of experience in consulting, design engineering, and project management for industrial, municipal, and institutional clients. His primary focus has been the design and operation of electrical power facilities, including substations, transmission and distribution systems, generation, energy storage, and system protection.
Since 1989 he has served as President of Colwell & Associates, Inc., an electrical and mechanical consulting engineering firm based in Corpus Christi, Texas. He previously served as President of Bath & Associates, Inc. from 1973 to 1989, and began his career as a Staff Engineer with the City Public Service Board in San Antonio, assigned to the Energy Systems Planning Department, where he conducted studies on power plant and energy center siting.
His generation work includes cogeneration and emergency demand response plants built for the ERCOT market, ranging from 3 MW diesel generation facilities to a 50 MW heat recovery steam generation cogeneration plant and a 117 MW cogeneration facility substation, along with multiple battery energy storage installations in Texas and New York. He has also led acceptance testing and commissioning for substations and switchgear across refining, petrochemical, and industrial facilities throughout the Gulf Coast.
Registration: Professional Engineer, Texas No. 40734. Member, IEEE and the Texas Society of Professional Engineers.
Education: Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Texas A&I University; Nuclear Engineering School, Texas A&M University; Nuclear Power School, Gulf General Atomic.
Areas of expertise: Electrical power facility design, substations and transmission, power generation and energy storage, system protection and relay coordination, short circuit and systems studies, acceptance testing and commissioning, project management.
