About Keentel Engineering

Your Trusted Partner in Electrical Engineering and Power Systems

At Keentel Engineering, we deliver electrical power engineering services built on 30 years of experience and a commitment to excellence. Our clients include utilities, developers, EPCs, and public agencies across the U.S.

Unlike firms that sacrifice technical depth to chase billable hours, we prioritize precision, compliance, and value engineering. From transmission services and relay modeling to winterization and SCADA planning, we never compromise on quality.

Who We Are

Learn more about Keentel Engineering. We’re not just engineers—we’re problem solvers, system thinkers, and quiet revolutionaries helping power the future.

Across the United States, our 51-member electrical engineering team shows up every day to bring certainty to complexity. We’re licensed. We’re seasoned. And we’re divided into three groups, each doing what they do best:

The Designers

18 Engineers

They turn lines into lifelines. With tools like AutoCAD, Revit, ETAP, PVSyst, and CAD 3D, they translate ambition into design—calculating, modeling, and detailing systems that work the first time.

The Grid Whisperers

17 Engineers

These are your PSCAD, PSS®E, and DIgSILENT experts. They speak the language of large-scale power plants and grid dynamics—ensuring your project plays well with the utility and the future.

The Watchdogs

16 Engineers

They live and breathe compliance. From OSHA and NFPA 70 (NEC) to NERC and FERC, they make sure your systems are bulletproof—ready for inspection, audit, and everything in between.

The Designers

Power System Design Group

18 Engineers

They turn lines into lifelines. With tools like AutoCAD, Revit, ETAP, PVSyst, and CAD 3D, they translate ambition into design—calculating, modeling, and detailing systems that work the first time.

The Grid Whisperers

Power System Studies Group

17 Engineers

These are your PSCAD, PSS®E, and DIgSILENT experts. They speak the language of large-scale power plants and grid dynamics—ensuring your project plays well with the utility and the future.

The Watchdogs

Regulatory Compliance, Inspection & Audit Group

16 Engineers

They live and breathe compliance. From OSHA and NFPA 70 (NEC) to NERC and FERC, they make sure your systems are bulletproof—ready for inspection, audit, and everything in between.

At Keentel Engineering and its Consultants, our mission is to deliver high-quality technical services tailored to the unique needs of our clients.

We are committed to maintaining a strong technical foundation and providing reliable, cost-effective solutions.

With over 30+ years of hands-on experience in industrial and utility power systems, our expertise includes power system analysis, electrical design, transmission planning, protective relaying, and NERC compliance.

We are dedicated to solving our clients’ challenges and ensuring the reliability and performance of their electrical systems.

IEEE Senior Member · Founder & CEO, Keentel Engineering

In 1995, Sonny Patel earned his Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Illinois. But degrees don't build legacies — action does.

For three decades, he has worked the power industry from every side of the table: 16 years as a utility engineer at Exelon/Commonwealth Edison; generation leadership across hydroelectric, industrial steam turbine, and a 9 GW renewable fleet; NERC Regional Entity Senior Compliance Engineer and Audit Team Lead, auditing some of the nation's largest utilities; and testing and commissioning lead on equipment up to 765 kV — the very top of the North American grid.

Utility. Generator. Regulator. Consultant. Few engineers have seen all four seats. Fewer still have sat in them.

His experience spans nuclear, hydro, conventional generation, renewables, oil and gas, mining — and today's data centers, where he is authoring a three-book series on data center design.

He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in six states and a Licensed Electrical Contractor in Florida (Unlimited EC) — he doesn't just design the work; he's qualified to stand behind its execution.

Today, as Founder and CEO of Keentel Engineering, Sonny leads 51 engineers delivering substation design, power system studies, NERC compliance, and commissioning — done right, coast to coast. Three decades. Every side of the table. One standard: accountable engineering.

Power systems, plainly explained.

Field-tested engineering insights covering NERC, PJM, ERCOT, IBR modeling, data-center interconnection and modern power-system studies — delivered directly through the Keentel Engineering channel.