Emerging Energy Tech: From Pilot to Utility-Scale

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.

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

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