 Chamisa Energy - Garrett Thornburg, Co-founder of Chamisa Energy is Chairman of the two Thornburg companies which he founded. Thornburg Investment Management,® (TIM) established in 1982, is an employee-owned investment firm with over $82 billion in assets in nine fixed income and seven equity mutual funds which are also available to institutions and individuals as separate accounts. TIM is known for providing Strategies for Building Real Wealth. Thornburg Securities Corporation,® established in 1984, is a broker/dealer firm that distributes Thornburg Mutual Funds. Prior
to moving to Santa Fe
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advisor to the State of New Mexico’s
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including the Day-Ahead Market with Congestion Revenue Rights, energy
and Ancillary Service co-optimization, Texas Two-Step mitigation in
Security Constrained Economic Dispatch, Constraint Competitiveness Test,
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Dr.
Siddiqi managed the power portfolio and negotiated contracts for the
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