Patton, David
David B. Patton is President of Potomac Economics and has almost 18 years of experience as an energy economist. He provides expert advice, analysis and testimony to clients in the electricity and natural gas industries. His areas of expertise include market design and monitoring, merger and other market power analysis, transmission pricing, asset valuation, and congestion management. Dr. Patton currently serves as the Market Advisor for both the New York ISO and ISO New England. In these capacities, he advises the ISOs’ Boards of Directors on market issues and monitors the markets to identify and remedy flaws in the market design or attempts to exercise market power. Dr. Patton has provided expert testimony and analysis on competitive issues in a number of electric utility mergers, other antitrust cases, and market-based pricing cases before the FERC, state regulatory agencies, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. Prior to consulting, Dr. Patton was a senior economist in the Office of Economic Policy at the FERC where he advised the Commission on policy issues ranging from transmission pricing and open access to mergers and market power. Dr. Patton has published and spoken on a broad array of topics related to deregulation and the development of competitive electricity markets. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University with concentrations in industrial organization and finance.