Suedeen G Kelly

Practice Areas

Participants in today’s energy industries are complex businesses that regularly need to make strategic decisions to move forward in markets characterized by uncertainty and legal intricacy. Suedeen Kelly brings diverse experience as an energy litigator, regulator, academic, legislative staffer, and trusted business advisor to create solutions that are right for her clients while also appealing to decisionmakers and other interests, clearing the way for clients to achieve their goals.

Suedeen represents a variety of clients in the electric and natural gas industries on business, regulatory, litigation, enforcement, and policy matters, such as electricity and gas markets, renewable energy, electricity transmission, hydrogen, off-shore wind, distributed generation, energy projects on Native American lands, natural gas and oil infrastructure, electricity reliability standards, hydro licensing, smart grid, and energy efficiency. She helps clients make the challenging decisions they face through understanding, navigating, complying with, and as needed, changing federal, state, and local energy law and policy.

Private companies, public utilities, Native American tribes, cooperatives, startups, trade associations, and even regulators across the United States rely on Suedeen’s guidance. She helps them understand when to request approvals or file complaints, manage risk, comply with regulations, defend themselves in regulatory, legal, and enforcement actions, and appeal decisions as needed.

Recently, Suedeen led an innovative and landmark transmission project over Indian lands that earned the Native American Finance Officers Association’s Government Impact Deal of the Year Award. The award recognizes “tribal financial ventures that have a long-lasting positive economic impact on their community and tribal members.”

Suedeen is a highly recognized energy practitioner and former commissioner with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). She also served as chairwoman and commissioner for the New Mexico Public Service Commission and was a lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council and US Environmental Protection Agency.