Kenneth Baldwin

Practice Areas

Coastal Resources + Sea Level Rise

Environmental, Energy + Telecommunications

Administrative Law

Land Use

Land Use Litigation

Regulatory Counseling

Administrative Appeals

Development Permitting

Energy - Competitive Markets

Energy - Project Development

Renewable + Alternative Energy

Telecommunications

Water

Career

Kenneth C. Baldwin focuses his practice on all aspects of energy, telecommunications and utilities law. He is a former member of Robinson+Cole's Managing Committee and is former chair of the firm's Environmental, Energy + Telecommunications group.

Facility Siting

Ken is one of Connecticut’s leading practitioners in the areas of energy, renewable energy, battery energy storage and telecommunications facility siting and project permitting. He appears regularly before the Connecticut Siting Council and Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority in addition to other state administrative agencies and local land use boards and commissions related to energy and telecommunication facility siting matters, telecommunications and electric supplier certification proceedings, occupational licensing and renewable energy classification proceedings.

Ken has been involved in more than 3,500 energy and telecommunications facility siting matters over the last 29 years of practice.

Energy Regulatory

Ken appears before state utility regulatory authorities in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire on utility, energy and fuel transmission matters. He counsels utility and energy clients on regulatory compliance matters and appears regularly before the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority on energy project development and compliance matters.

He has been involved in state and federal litigation on telecommunications and energy-related legal matters and is a member of Robinson+Cole's Coastal Resources Management Center.

Professional Memberships

Connecticut Bar Association

Planning & Zoning Section (1997 - Current)

Energy, Public Utility, and Communications Law Section (1997 - Current)

American Bar Association

Public Utility, Communications, and Transportation Law Section (1994 - Current)

Federal Communications Bar Association (1998 - Current)

American Planning Association, Connecticut Chapter (1988 - Current)

American Leadership Forum

Senior Fellow (2003 - Current)

SCG Legal

Board of Directors (2019 - Current)

American Water Works Association, Connecticut Section

Publications

Ken has written and spoken extensively on issues related to telecommunications and energy facility siting, as well as on local land use implications related to the utility industry.