Ekin Senlet

Practice Areas

• Energy

• Regulatory

• Renewable Energy

• Oil & Gas

Career

Ekin serves as a Regulatory Practice Area co-chair along with Brenda Colella and primarily concentrates her practice on regulatory issues in the energy industry, including infrastructure siting matters, major electric and gas utility rate cases, regulatory compliance, and other utility and generator-facility related proceedings. She routinely represents clients in administrative proceedings before the NYS Public Service Commission. She has extensive experience working with electric and gas utilities, pipeline companies, and generators, and she frequently handles energy-production and transmission-line projects, renewable siting projects for utility scale wind farms, environmental-permitting matters, and related commercial matters in the energy industry. Recently, Ekin has been serving as a lead counsel on PSC approvals for major transmission infrastructure projects for Equinor’s Empire Wind 1, Empire Wind 2 and Beacon Wind off-shore wind projects, and on the Smart Path Connect and Smart Path transmission line projects. Along with Brenda, Ekin also has been serving as the PSC counsel to Forward Power for the Clean Path NY transmission line project.

Ekin additionally works closely with energy service companies (ESCOs) participating in the electric and gas retail marketplace in New York. She provides legal counsel on issues related to ESCO licensing, marketing practices, and regulatory compliance with the requirements established by the PSC, including the New York Uniform Business Practices and relevant PSC orders.

Ekin also represents cable and telecommunication companies before the PSC and assists major cable clients with their merger dockets, management and operations audit matters, and regulatory compliance matters before the PSC. Recently, she has been working as the point of contact for the firm’s major telecommunications clients Altice USA and Charter Communications, Inc.

Ekin has previously served as co-chair of the New York Bar Association’s Siting and Utility Regulation Committee within the Environmental and Energy Law Section, and as a former president of the Women’s Energy Network, Greater Albany Chapter.

Ekin also regularly presents at nationwide renewable energy conferences and speaks on issues related to permitting challenges, interconnection delays, and site control.

Professional Memberships

• New York State Bar Association, Environmental and Energy Law Section—Utility Regulation, Co-Chair

• Energy Bar Association, Member

• Alliance for Clean Energy New York, Member

• American Wind Energy Association, Member

• Women’s Energy Network, Greater Albany Chapter (WEN), Past President and Board Member

• Solar Energy Industries Association, Member

• Women in Communications and Energy (WICE), Member

• Institute for Energy Law, Member

• Business Network for Offshore Wind, Member

• Barclay Damon’s Women’s Forum, Member

Publications

• Law360, "A Plan to Meet New York's Expanded Energy Goals"

• USLAW Magazine, "Carbon Pricing in the United States and New York As a Case Study"

• Barclay Damon LLP, “NYS PSC Modifies Pole Attachment Rules to Accelerate Broadband and Cellular Service Deployment”

• Barclay Damon LLP, “NYS PSC Launches ‘Grid of the Future’ Proceeding”

• Barclay Damon LLP, “Proposed NYS Budget Includes Major Changes to ORES and Transmission Siting”

• Barclay Damon LLP, “NYS Governor Hochul Embraces Green Energy in Annual State of the State Address”

• Barclay Damon LLP, “NYS Public Service Commission Grants Empire Wind 1 a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need”

Personal

• Legal Project of Albany, Volunteer Attorney