Staff & Board

David Sapper has been actively involved in wholesale electricity industry restructuring for nearly 30 years. 

Prior to joining CGA, David was the Director of Market Intelligence at Customized Energy Solutions (CES), where he provided MISO monitoring and analysis services while also participating regularly in MISO stakeholder discussions. Before CES, David served as a commissioner's advisor at the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, where his expertise helped to shape the approval of the first high-voltage regional transmission line in decades. At the PSCW, he also lead multi-sector stakeholder reviews of MISO's energy market implementation in addition to Wisconsin stakeholders' MISO policy initiatives. In the early 2000s as a commissioner's advisor at the (then-named) Tennessee Regulatory Authority, David served on a governor's task force to create a transmission open access pilot program.

David is responsible for shaping and directing CGA's work to expand transmission, streamline generation interconnections, and facilitate new market opportunities for clean energy growth across the Midcontinent and with neighboring RTOs. As part of this work, seeks ways to collaborate productively with other stakeholders and policymakers for sustainable clean energy expansion.

David holds a BA in economics from Trinity University in Texas and a PhD in economics from Vanderbilt University.