Patrick Augustine

Vice President

Patrick Augustine is a vice president in CRA’s Energy Practice. He specializes in market analysis and strategy development within the electric utility and power market sectors.

Mr. Augustine is experienced with power market dispatch systems and utility planning tools and leads consulting assignments across North America in support of utilities, project developers, investors, and lenders in their resource planning, project development, and financing efforts.

Mr. Augustine has significant experience developing power market modeling approaches and integrating key market drivers such as fuel prices, environmental policy, and market design changes into economic analyses that evaluate expectations for power market prices, asset and portfolio valuations, and utility cost and risk profiles.

Mr. Augustine is a frequent writer and presenter in the power market space and has testified before state utility commissions in Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Kentucky, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas on various electric resource planning and power market analysis topics. He also has significant experience leading stakeholder engagement processes in the resource planning space.

Mr. Augustine holds a Masters of Environmental Management from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University and a BA from Harvard University.

Selected engagements

  • 01
    Supporting CPS Energy in developing a long-term generation plan
    CPS Energy faced a consequential set of decisions about the future of its generation portfolio
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  • 02
    Developing a flexible, long-term resource strategy for Wisconsin Power and Light
    CRA supported WPL with integrated resource planning that combined power market analysis, resource and portfolio modeling, scenario analysis, and detailed
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  • 03
    Transforming NIPSCO’s resource strategy through integrated resource planning
    NIPSCO needed to develop a long-term resource strategy capable of meeting customer needs
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Credentials