We are the specialists that contractors call when something doesn’t make sense electrically
Basic Power is a full-service Root Cause Electrical Diagnostics company that provides expert electrical engineering services to solve complex electrical issues in commercial, educational, and industrial buildings.
We have an in-house PQ lab utilizing our 96KW NHR 9430 4-Quadrant Regenerative AC Load Bank to recreate the electrical waveforms recorded in our site surveys so we can custom-tune solutions and demonstrate their effectiveness in your client’s facility before field installation.
Basic Power, Inc. serves industrial, educational, and commercial clients throughout the USA, Mexico, and the Caribbean with recent projects that include one of the world’s largest commercial buildings in Chicago, a world class research hospital campus in Baltimore, and a large hospital, industrial facility and LNG Terminal in Puerto Rico.
With our comprehensive power quality analysis of your client’s facility, Basic Power identifies and corrects electrical issues causing equipment failure, production downtime, or revenue loss.
Our electrical engineers can provide their expert recommendations for improving facility efficiency and electrical capacity improvement before expansion or when new electrical loads are being added to a constrained system.
THE TEAM
Gene Ostendorf
President & CEO
For over three decades, Gene’s leadership has steered custom technical solutions for business to improve efficiency.
Gene’s mission remains consistent: technology helps businesses to be more profitable by lowering their energy, operational, and maintenance costs in addition to helping facilities obtain their energy conservation and sustainability goals.
As a recognized industry expert, Gene is a frequent speaker on automation technology, cashless payments and telemetry systems, and control board technology. Gene earned a bachelor’s degree in Physics and a master’s from Loyola University in Maryland. He resides in suburban Maryland with his wife and daughter.
Stephen Washington
Vice President
Stephen has been providing strategic solutions to business and governments for more than 30 years. He is a passionate futurist and believes in technology’s role in helping address the significant issues that face us in the 21st Century.
Stephen provides industrial design guidance, internal and external ECM data validation and engineering co-ordination for strategic product development of the TruWatts line.
Prior to entering the renewable energy and energy efficiency sector, Stephen provided insight and guidance to the public sector and helped craft renewable energy legislation in Pennsylvania in his role as Chief of Staff for the 189th Legislative District.
Daniel Andrade-Torres
Lead Electrical Engineer
Daniel Andrade-Torres is an Electrical Engineer with extensive experience in power systems associated with the industrial, pharmaceutical, construction and utility sectors. He is an active associate member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Baltimore chapter of ASHRAE and was recently certified in power quality monitoring and analysis by Eaton Corporation.
Following Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, Daniel performed inspection, project engineering, and consulting engineering management for utility projects.
Daniel earned a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, with a major in Electrical Power Systems, from Technological University of Pereira and a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering in Electrical Power Systems, with a major in Renewable Energy Systems from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.
Cedric Ze Wang
Lead Electrical Engineer
Cedric is a dedicated electrical engineer that excels at analyzing and processing data from an applied physics perspective. His goal is to provide power quality solutions for industry, renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors and smart microgrids.
Using his physics and engineering knowledge, Cedric provides diagnostic analysis, forensic reporting and power quality solutions for power quality audits, commissioned by our industrial clients.
Cedric is a member of Sigma Pi Sigma, America’s oldest and only physics honor society, and is currently a master’s student at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering.
