Energy, Power, Renewables, Nuclear, Electricity

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Christopher Russo has testified in litigation and regulatory matters on issues regarding the economics, planning, operation, and manipulation of energy markets and has testified numerous times at trial in numerous countries. He has testified more than 40 times during his career in multiple venues. He advises domestic and international clients in the electricity and gas industries in the areas of investment strategy and economic analysis, asset valuation, energy technology, and generation and transmission development. His expertise covers electricity and gas markets in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and worldwide. He has led the diligence on more than 100 different assets during his career. Mr. Russo also served on the Board of Directors of Neuco, a Boston-based company which provides software to enable AI and neural network control of thermal power plants. Mr. Russo started the Energy practice from a team of six people, growing it to over sixty as the Practice Leader from 2012 through 2025 before returning to focus full-time on client work. Prior to joining CRA, Mr. Russo was a senior consultant with Cambridge Energy Research Associates in Paris, and prior to that, owned his own energy consulting firm as well as working for ABB Corporate Research in the US and Switzerland. He started his career at MIT as the Plant Engineer for the campus cogeneration power plant, and later held an academic appointment as a Visiting Scientist at the MIT Energy Laboratory where he investigated electricity technology and energy policy.