Couch White LLP

Energy

Partner and Co-Chair of the Energy Practice Group

Kevin is the Co-Chair of the Energy Practice Group. He assists clients in matters before state and federal energy regulatory agencies and involving utilities and electric system operators, generation and transmission development and siting, asset divestiture and acquisition and other energy-related transactions, and development and implementation of clean energy policies and programs. Kevin’s clients include the City of New York, State University of New York, owners and developers of renewable resources, transmission, and energy storage, and companies participating in the wholesale electricity markets. Prior to joining Couch White, Kevin worked for the New York State Department of Public Service as a Managing Attorney and before that, as an Assistant Counsel. While with DPS, he successfully defended the New York State Public Service Commission in court challenges to PSC decisions, led staff teams in numerous rate cases, was instrumental in maximizing the value received by New York ratepayers from the divestiture of the New York public utilities’ nuclear, fossil- fueled, and hydroelectric generating facilities, and routinely advised the PSC on policy and other issues.

Albany County Bar Association Energy Bar Association New York State Bar Association Co-Chair, NYSBA Public Utility Committee American Bar Association American Chemical Society Families in Need of Assistance, Inc. Ranked in Band 2 by 2026 Chambers & Partners for New York State Energy: State Regulatory and Wholesale Electric Market Named to the 2026 Best Lawyers in America in the practice area of Energy Law

University of Michigan, B.S., 1988; Albany Law School of Union University, J.D., 1991; National Co-Champion, ABA-sponsored Negotiations Competition