Christopher Eshleman
Director, Energy Analytics And Electric Supply at Ava Community Energy
Gig Harbor, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Eshleman is a director-level energy analytics and electric supply leader with nine years of hands-on experience aligning resource strategy, procurement, and analytics to drive decarbonization and cost outcomes for community energy programs. He has led large-scale power procurement and portfolio optimization—managing annual budgets north of $400M and evaluating hundreds of RFO variants with quantitative NPV and risk models—to support aggressive GHG-free goals like 100% by 2030. A former day-ahead market expert at PG&E, he combines deep CAISO market knowledge, VBA/SQL/R modeling, and practical trading and bidding strategies to turn complex market signals into operational decisions. Christopher brings a rare mix of policy-minded urbanist thinking (drawn from a journalism and policy background) and rigorous engineering training (M.Eng. in Energy Systems), enabling him to translate technical analysis into board-level recommendations. Based in Gig Harbor, WA, he’s known for building cross-functional teams and operationalizing novel products such as solar-plus-storage bidding and advanced load hedging approaches.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Energy Systems Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Energy Systems Engineering at Lehigh UniversitySan Diego State University
Github Skills (15)
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data-visualisation9
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data-analysis8
data-science7
architecture7
documentation5
azure5
microsoft4
matching3
react2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chriseshleman/chriseshleman.github.io
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:251 pushes in 1 year
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
chriseshleman/construction_bids
Jul 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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