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Katy Wilson · the seat where clean power actually gets bought
Director of Origination at TransAlta, San Diego — the seat that turns renewable-energy goals into signed contracts: RPS, carbon-free procurement, and the settlement math underneath.
Who Katy is
The power-origination seat
Power origination is a contracts-and-data business wearing a sustainability badge: term sheets, RPS accounting, settlement reconciliation, counterparty tracking — every one a document or a number that has to be right and on time. The originator who systematizes the data spends more time on the part that closes the deal.
What a SideGuy does for Katy
Where a one-person tech layer fits energy origination
- The settlement-reconciliation grind — the numbers that have to tie out every cycle, systematized instead of hand-checked.
- Deal & counterparty tracking — term sheets and PPA status in one live view, not an inbox.
- The energy mesh — ties into the operator-owned-energy thesis SideGuy already builds on (solar → owned compute).
Katy, you do the part that requires the market judgment: what clean power to buy, from whom, on what terms.
SideGuy is the layer underneath — the reconciliation, tracking, and reporting that free the judgment from the spreadsheet.
Want to try a tech department for an hour?
I'll give it a quick first look. No Calendly · no meeting · neighbor to neighbor.
Either way · I'll give it a quick first look. Text PJ at 858-461-8054. No Calendly · neighbor to neighbor.
Find Katy publicly
Katy's work, not ours
- LinkedIn: Katy Wilson
- Company: TransAlta · power origination · RPS & carbon-free
Same lane on SideGuy
The energy lane on SideGuy
- Nick Walden → Associate of Origination, TransAlta (your team)
- Bryan Villano → Founder, ContractPower · AI for energy contracts
- Joel Diaz → Project development, IOWN Renewable Energy · large-load power
- Ted Tardif → Power origination, Clean Power Alliance
- Jeramie Rose → Founder, Sunlife Energy (solar)
- Solar-AI partner lane → operator-owned energy + AI
- Solar-powered private AI → the energy-for-compute thesis
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- The SideGuy Operator Network → the living map of every North County operator we've built a page for — you're on it
- San Diego operator network → all the neighbors in one place
- Local NCSD → the coastal operator network
- About PJ Zonis → the single operator behind this page
- People we work with → the broader operator index