Paul Lessard

Asset Manager at Swift Current Energy

Houston, Texas, United States

About

Experience

  • Swift Current Energy (Houston, Texas, United States)
    • Asset Manager
      Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    • Associate Asset Manager
      Jan 2023 - Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Leadership Learning Center Worker at Texas A&M Corps of Cadets
    Aug 2022 - Dec 2022 · 5 mos

  • Teaching Assistant at J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University
    Aug 2022 - Dec 2022 · 5 mos

    Section TA for the MEEN 381 course (Seminar). Responsible for leading a weekly recitation class, maintaining the course's schedule, grading, and communicating with students.

  • Asset Management Intern at Con Edison Clean Energy Businesses
    Jun 2022 - Aug 2022 · 3 mos

    • Established price bands to estimate the percentage of compensated curtailment periods based on historical curtailment data (MWh) and Real-Time (RT) 5-minute Locational Marginal Prices (LMP). • Wrote a Python script to calculate the daily total curtailments and their compensated/uncompensated splits for 18 California sites. This was done by matching 5-minute curtailment periods (PI Server) and LMP prices (extracted from the CAISO API) to each site’s completed price bands. • Presented to company executives the benefits and risks of investing in utility-scale flow battery storage. • Identified key contractual differences between sites’ Power Purchase Agreements, Interconnection Agreements, and Operations and Maintenance Agreements.

  • Intern at CAMS
    Jun 2021 - Aug 2021 · 3 mos

    Engineering Intern for CAMS Renewables Services. I have assisted in analyzing splice failures at the Mariah Del Norte Wind Farm, Due Diligence work for ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC, proposal editing, and monitoring inverters at various CAMS solar sites.