What is Scarp Industries?
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Scarp Industries is founded on the basis of leveraging highly technical engineering talent in the power systems space to advance modern electric utility industry reliability, efficiently function within competitive and regulated utility frameworks, and maximize each business’s successful entry and operation in competitive electric markets. Additionally, we advise clients on ever-changing electric utility market rules in every major market or control area. Scarp Industries also uses its in-depth knowledge of the electric utility power sector to develop customized training materials and user documentation for planning, operations, and maintenance areas of the business with technological capabilities in energy management systems, power system simulations, and advanced applications.
Our Mission
To be the best in energy consulting, Scarp Industries has a multilayered mission enumerated below.
- Provide deep power system and economic analytics modeling capabilities to assist in utility strategy and evaluating different project feasibility and payoff.
- Provide leading-edge commentary and reporting on organized electric utility markets focusing on areas or regulations, market rules, and operational procedures.
- Develop utility-scale electric power systems training programs and on-the-job training guides in the areas of power system dispatch, substation operation, power generation, power system protection, voltage control, power flow, energy management systems, and information technology.
- Provide expert instruction to electric utility personnel using classroom, virtual, structured on-the-job training, and power system simulator training methods.
The people
Dominic Scarpignato
Dominic is the founder and president of Scarp Industries. He is trained in Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) operations, planning, and markets. He has significant experience participating in the RTO stakeholder processes. Dominic is a highly competent electrical engineer who also possesses power system modeling capabilities and can evaluate economic scenarios.
David Scarpignato
David Scarpignato (Scarp) is the Executive Vice President at Scarp Industries Corp. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, an MBA and an MS in Applied Economics from the University of Maryland, and a Master’s in Education (Instructional Technology) from Towson University. His diverse engineering experience spans generator development, system operations, generator operations, market operations, transmission and interconnection planning, and NERC and regional certification. He trained system operators at utilities including TXU Energy, Bonneville Power Administration, Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE), and PJM Interconnection. He also served as a subject matter expert in power system relay protection schemes for Tenaga Nasional Berhad (Malaysia), Seattle City Light, and Consumers Energy, among others. He has also been involved in numerous generator interconnection processes, including for Domino Sugar and the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear (uprate), as a transmission planner. As a generation resource developer, he contributed to efforts to interconnect Garrison Energy Center and York 2. His expertise has significantly shaped customer and generator interconnection rules for transmission owners and Independent System Operator (ISO) territories. Mr. Scarpignato’s interconnection rule and regulatory expertise span decades from when he jointly drafted the original pro-forma PJM interconnection rules on behalf of BGE with seven other transmission owner utilities to today with his leadership in crafting rules for intermittent generation and large load interconnections.
Mr. Scarpignato’s significant areas of accomplishments include robust market design and utility rate design. His extensive electric utility industry experience serves as an invaluable asset for clients facing challenges navigating ever-changing electric utility market rules. For instance, he chaired the recent Critical Issues Fast Path process at PJM, which culminated in the adoption of the peak load measurement using the Effective Load Carrying Capability (ELCC) methodology for all generators and demand response. He has also driven the development of innovative market mechanisms, such as scarcity pricing, to enhance market efficiency. In addition to crafting numerous market operations rules, he has acted as an internal consultant to electricity market trading desks, including at Direct Energy and Calpine. In the regulatory arena, he played a key role in developing the PJM highway-byway rate design for PJM’s transmission system with a net plant value of $67.94 billion and provided expert testimony at the FERC. He drives change through the stakeholder process and has held positions, including PJM Members Committee Chair, Liaison Committee Chair to the PJM Board, Nominating Committee Representative, and Finance Committee Representative. Additionally, he provided expert testimony for the Retail Electric Supply Association (RESA) regarding the First Energy Security Plan at the Ohio PUC. He provided expert testimony for Old Dominion Electric Cooperative at FERC. He also served as the Chairman of the MISO-PJM Joint Tariff Group, which spearheaded the multibillion-dollar Seams Elimination Cost Adjustment (SECA) at FERC.