Couch White LLP

Energy and Renewable Energy Transactions

Managing Partner and Chair of the Renewable Energy Transactions Practice Group

Adam Conway is a Partner at Couch White, LLP and Chair of the Renewable Energy Transactions Practice Group. He has been an attorney specializing in energy law at Couch White for more than a decade. Adam has helped clients successfully develop projects across the energy spectrum, focusing on project development, policy and utility rate regulation. He helps clients navigate complex and contentious regulatory approvals, negotiate power purchase and energy performance agreements and provides counsel on relevant laws and regulations.

Adam works closely with a cross-disciplinary team at Couch White, focusing on energy regulatory, permitting, and real estate, to provide comprehensive and cost-effective renewable energy development advice to companies looking to develop, acquire, or finance projects in New York State and surrounding states. He has experience with large-scale and distributed-scale solar, wind, hydroelectric, battery storage, fuel cell, anaerobic digester, and biomass projects.

He advises large energy users – including private companies, educational institutions, and others – on renewable energy purchase agreements and procurements. He has counselled clients in several high-profile, innovative renewable energy aggregation purchases that brought multiple companies together to achieve economies of scale in their renewable energy purchases.

He also regularly advises clients on key energy policies intended to foster renewable energy, distributed generation and microgrids, battery storage, electric vehicles and residential electric submetering. He has appeared before regulatory agencies in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut and has experience dealing with a wide range of issues related to electricity, natural gas, and steam rates.

New York State Bar Association Ranked in Band 2 by 2026 Chambers & Partners for New York State Energy: State Regulatory and Wholesale Electric Market

Colgate University, B.A., 2003; Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany, MPA, 2008; Albany Law School of Union University, J.D., 2009, magna cum laude