Kathleen King, PhD

Kathleen King has almost three decades of experience as an economist in energy markets and bank regulation. She has provided expert witness and consulting support in litigation, arbitration cases, and regulatory proceedings, as well as advisory services and transaction support. The litigation and arbitration support has involved a wide range of issues, notably energy trading practices and business practices of energy merchants, natural gas pricing, as well as damage calculations in disputes around power plants and contracts. Dr. King’s work on energy trading practices has included assessment of trade data, assessment of strategies and practices of trading organizations, contract evaluation, valuation of trading portfolios and economic due diligence on trading companies, and the fair market value of natural gas transactions.

In wholesale power markets, Dr. King has provided market assessment and price forecasting, economic due diligence on generating assets and on retail and wholesale trading companies, strategic business planning, and analytic techniques for portfolio valuation and risk management for energy companies. She has worked with private equity clients to identify opportunities in energy markets and structure transactions.

Dr. King’s experience in retail electricity markets focused on product design and evaluation for regulated, transitioning, and competitive markets, and estimation of demand response. She was instrumental in the design, fielding, and/or analysis of most of the early two-part real-time pricing programs in the United States, as well as analysis of Pool Price Contracts in the early days of the UK competitive power market. She developed menus of products designed to capture some of the benefits of competitive markets within a regulated framework.