Michael Patten focuses his practice in the areas of public utilities, energy, and telecommunications. He appears regularly before the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) on matters involving public utilities, electricity, water and wastewater, transmission and generation facilities, renewable energy, solar energy, energy storage, battery storage, interconnection, energy efficiency, gas distribution and telecommunications. He has participated as first chair counsel in numerous ACC proceedings including rate cases, mergers and acquisitions, financings, line sitings, service area extensions, formal complaints, rulemakings, and policy dockets.
Through his decades of experience, Michael provides prompt, thoughtful, efficient and effective guidance with respect to a myriad of utility regulatory issues. He also has extensive litigation experience related to these and other areas of law.