Mr. Hutchinson is an energy industry professional with 10 years of electric utility and consulting experience providing analytical support and research expertise. Chris excels at crafting high impact short- and long-term optimization analyses for budgeting, risk management, and commodity trading resource planning. He is well versed in various time-of-use rate modeling for whole facilities and electric vehicles and has recent experience with gas LDCs tariff provisions including a focus on balancing services.  His previous utility work involved power trading, managing meter data systems, load forecasting, producing regulatory filings and compliance reports, and developing annual capital budgets. Other preceding client work focused on supporting utility cost of service studies, revenue requirement analysis, and rate design. Prior to joining Atrium, Chris was employed as a Utility Specialist by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and as a Resource Planner for the City of Palo Alto Utilities.