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About Astrapé
The Story Of Astrapé
Astrapé Consulting was founded in 2005 by Director Kevin Carden after Astrapé took over the development of SERVM from The Southern Company.
Since then, Astrapé has continually improved SERVM, become the exclusive licensor of SERVM, and SERVM is utilized in jurisdictions across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Astrapé now boasts over a dozen employees from across the country. When they are not finding answers to the world’s reliability questions, you can find the Astrapé staff engaging in intense games of pickleball and Texas Hold Em’ and enjoying the beautiful Alabama outdoors together.
Our expert staff can provide support on
Physical Reliability Studies
Variable Energy Resource ELCC Studies
Regulatory
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Our Consultants
Kevin Carden
Founder and CEO
Kevin Carden
Founder and CEO
Mr. Kevin Carden is the Founder and CEO of Astrapé Consulting, an energy consulting organization with a focus on resource planning. Under Kevin’s leadership for the past 19 years, Astrapé Consulting has provided consulting services to utilities, regulators, and ISOs worldwide. He also led the redevelopment of SERVM, a now industry-leading Resource Adequacy Planning tool, licensed by Astrapé. Additional responsibilities have included reliability and resource adequacy studies for clients across the U.S., project financial analysis, RFP independent evaluation, renewable capacity valuation, demand-side management program development, and contract management for many large capital projects. Kevin holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Alabama. Kevin holds a U.S. patent in Generation Reliability Modeling techniques (#7698233).
Nick Wintermantel
Principal
Nick Wintermantel
Principal
Mr. Nick Wintermantel is a Principal at Astrapé Consulting. An engineer with an MBA, Nick has been active in the energy industry since 2000, holding various positions within the Southern Company before joining Astrapé Consulting. He has broad experience in integrated resource planning, system production cost modeling, reliability modeling, intermittent resource integration, generation development, contract structuring, and risk analysis. While at Astrapé Consulting, Nick has performed work for large utilities and organizations across the U.S. including the Southern Company, TVA, Duke Energy, Louisville Gas & Electric, ERCOT, FERC, EISPC, PGE, SCE, PNM, and the California Public Utility Commission. Nick’s most recent work has focused on system modeling engagements using the Strategic Energy Risk Valuation Model (SERVM) for clients.
Parth Patel
Director of Software Development
Parth Patel
Director of Software Development
Mr. Parth Patel is a senior managing consultant at Astrapé Consulting. He is responsible for managing and enhancing the Strategic Energy Risk Valuation Model (SERVM). Parth holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has experience in industrial controls, artificial intelligence algorithms, image processing, and designing software for autonomous robots.
Chase Winkler
Managing Consultant
Chase Winkler
Managing Consultant
Mr. Chase Winkler is a consultant at Astrapé Consulting. Chase holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Texas A&M University, and maintains a license as a Professional Engineer in the state of Texas. He has experience in integrated resource planning, RFP evaluation, reserve margin studies, and ELCC studies.
Alex Dombrowsky
Managing Consultant
Alex Dombrowsky
Managing Consultant
Mrs. Alex Dombrowsky is a consultant at Astrapé Consulting. She has worked on reserve margin studies, renewable integration studies, and ELCC studies for clients around North America. Alex holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama.
Cole Benson
Managing Consultant
Cole Benson
Managing Consultant
Mr. Cole Benson is a consultant at Astrapé Consulting. He provides support on resource adequacy studies, ELCC studies, and reserve margin studies and brings experience from his time as a graduate intern for the Energy Storage Systems department at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. Mr. Benson holds a B.S. in Biochemistry and an MBA with an emphasis on Financial Management from the University of New Mexico.
Rajaz Amitava
Managing Consultant
Rajaz Amitava
Managing Consultant
Rajaz Amitava is a consultant at Astrapé Consulting. He brings experience from his time as a graduate research assistant at Iowa State University working on capacity expansion and production costing in bulk energy systems. He has also worked at PJM Interconnection in the Advanced Analytics division setting up co-optimized expansion planning tools. He has a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Iowa State University.
Joel Dison
Technical Manager
Joel Dison
Technical Manager
Mr. Joel Dison is a senior managing consultant at Astrapé Consulting. He works on numerous types of projects, including resource adequacy studies, renewable resource integration cost studies, and others. Mr. Dison has over 35 years of experience in the electric power industry working in areas such as plant operations, plant engineering, energy marketing and trading, energy policy, transmission planning, and generation planning. Mr. Dison holds B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a Masters of Divinity from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
Stepan Vancurik, Ph.D.
Consultant
Stepan Vancurik, Ph.D.
Consultant
Dr. Stepan Vancurik is a software engineer at Astrapé Consulting. Stepan holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Stepan also holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, as well as an MBA from the University of Economics and Management in Prague. Stepan has multiple publications in IEEE Transactions and other journals, and he has presented several research papers at various IEEE conferences.
Nick Simmons
Consultant
Nick Simmons
Consultant
Nick Simmons is a consultant at Astrapé Consulting. He brings technical experience from his time as a graduate assistant in Lean Manufacturing and undergraduate work in simulations. Additionally, Mr. Simmons brings communication and personal skills from his time working in college ministry. Mr. Simmons holds a Bachelor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and is pursuing an MBA with a certificate in Management Information Systems from Auburn University.
Jenny Davis
Executive Assistant
Jenny Davis
Executive Assistant
Mrs. Jenny Davis is the executive assistant at Astrapé Consulting. She provides support to both the Astrapé team and their clients. Mrs. Davis has experience in client support services and account management and oversees billing and daily operations.
Tobe Anyaezu
Optimization Engineer
Tobe Anyaezu
Optimization Engineer
Mr. Tobe Anyaezu is an optimization engineer at Astrapé Consulting. He provides support on both software development and engineering analysis. Mr. Anyaezu holds dual Master’s Degrees in Data Science and Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.
Jake Blizman
Consultant
Jake Blizman
Consultant
Mr. Jake Blizman is a consultant at Astrapé Consulting. Jake holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Texas A&M University. He provides support on reserve margin and ELCC studies for many clients across the United States.
Donald Webster
Software Engineer
Donald Webster
Software Engineer
Mr.Donald Webster is a Software Engineer with Astrapé Consulting. His current work focuses on adding new GUI displays of unit & study data and in refactoring current query logic. Mr.Webster graduated with a BS & MS in Management Information Systems from the University of Alabama.