Mitch has 19 years of experience in the energy industry.  His energy career has its origins in Electrical Engineering with experience in system protection, balancing area metering, and distributed energy resource interconnections. His involvement in DER has continued at Dairyland Power Cooperative through his current role as Supervisor of Load Management, where he is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of demand side strategies, programs, and corresponding systems. His experience also includes rate settlement administration, MISO tariff compliance, and monitoring of related regulatory policy.