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Course Details

Course Information
  • smart_display Format

    Live Online with Live Q&A

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

    Intermediate

  • work Practice Area

    Energy

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Thursday, November 6, 2025

  • schedule Time

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

  • timer Program Length

    90 minutes

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


  • Live Online


    On Demand

$297.00

This course is $0 with these passes:

CLE
ALL

This CLE webinar will examine what it takes to move emerging energy technologies from pilot to utility-scale in today's market. The panel will focus on the practical levers that determine bankability, transmission and interconnection, permitting and wildlife risks, and the capital stack.

Faculty

Elina Teplinsky
Partner
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Ms. Teplinsky, Pillsbury’s Global Energy Industry Leader and a leading member of the firm’s International Nuclear Projects and Hydrogen teams, focuses on international nuclear energy matters, including advice to U.S. and global clients on transactional and regulatory issues. She is a trusted advisor to nuclear owner-operators, reactor and equipment suppliers, investors, architect-engineering companies and technical consulting firms on complex nuclear transactional and regulatory matters. Ms. Teplinsky frequently serves as lead outside counsel on new build projects, equipment and fuel procurements, M&A transactions and joint ventures in the nuclear sector. She has worked on transactions for more than 30 countries in North and South America, Europe, Turkey and the Middle East, Russia and the former CIS, Asia and Africa.

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Description

Nascent energy technologies face many obstacles on the path to operation. Projects must navigate long-range transmission planning, NEPA review, species/eagle permit risk, and shifting tech-neutral credits and hydrogen/CCUS rules under administrative flux. The panelists will unpack how these changes translate into interconnection queue strategy, critical-path permit sequencing, and financeable offtake. Where do first-of-a-kind projects stall?

Listen as our panel discusses the financial and regulatory challenges to advancing hydrogen, CCUS, long-duration storage, advanced nuclear, and next-gen renewables from concept to commercial operation.

Outline

I. Introduction

II. Transmission and interconnection considerations

III. Planning and siting considerations

IV. Permitting and critical path

V. Capital stack considerations

VI. Contract drafting best practices

VII. Practitioner takeaways

Benefits

The panel will discuss these and other important topics:

  • Utility-scale feasibility considerations for interconnection, permitting, and capital stack
  • Understanding interconnection queue strategies and mapping critical path permits
  • Assembling the capital stack for first-of-a-kind projects
  • Drafting bankability clauses: change-in-law, force majeure, interconnection and congestion risk, environmental take/mitigation funds, and performance security
  • Structuring offtake for nascent technology