Justin Gable is the Director of Resource Planning & Bidding for Southwestern Public Service Company, a subsidiary of Xcel Energy, where he leads long‑term generation planning, capacity expansion modeling, and competitive procurement activities across Texas and New Mexico. His responsibilities include directing integrated resource plans and issuing and evaluating generation solicitations. Justin regularly works with regulators, market operators, transmission planners and stakeholders on issues related to reliability, resource adequacy, and cost optimization, and brings hands‑on experience with production cost modeling, ELCC‑based accreditation, and the integration of renewables, storage, and thermal resources.