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  • videocam On-Demand
  • calendar_month December 9, 2025 @ 1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
  • signal_cellular_alt Intermediate
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  • schedule 90 minutes

Emerging Energy Tech: From Pilot to Utility-Scale

Ensuring Transmission, Permitting, and Bankability

$297.00

This course is $0 with these passes:

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About the Course

Introduction

This CLE webinar will examine what it takes to move emerging energy technologies from pilot to utility-scale to satisfy large load customers like data centers and hyperscalers in today's market. The panel will focus on the practical levers that determine bankability, transmission and interconnection, and siting and permitting.

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 examines how developers and investors can advance emerging energy technologies - such as advanced nuclear, hydrogen, and long-duration storage - from pilot projects to financeable, utility-scale operations. The discussion will focus on what makes first-of-a-kind projects bankable, how to navigate interconnection and permitting bottlenecks, and key contractual protections needed to attract capital.

Presented By

Stephen J. Humes
Partner
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Mr. Humes advises clients on clean energy project development and finance, including renewables, nuclear facilities, powering data centers, including grid-scale and net-metered solar photovoltaics (PV), offshore wind, battery energy storage systems and geothermal. For decades, he has advised clients on energy transactional, regulatory and environmental issues, including those associated with conventional and renewable power plant development, cogeneration, liquefied natural gas and pipeline facilities, geothermal and other utility infrastructure matters. Hr. Humes energy-related environmental experience includes advising clients on environmental due diligence, permitting, environmental justice and climate change issues. He guides clients through state and federal administrative proceedings, including advancing rate cases in administrative litigation and defending clients in enforcement actions. Mr. Humes also counsels clients on a full range of state and federal environmental compliance and enforcement matters and handles energy and environmental issues effectively in corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions, including acquisitions and divestitures of power plants, nuclear facilities and renewable energy portfolios.

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Elina Teplinsky
Partner
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Credit Information

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


  • Live Online


    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Tuesday, December 9, 2025

  • schedule

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

I. Market drivers and emerging technologies

II. Interconnection, siting, and permitting challenges

III. Financing and risk allocation—what lenders and investors need to see

IV. Practical drafting and negotiation takeaways

V. Conclusion with Q&A

The panel will discuss these and other important topics:

  • How to position first-of-a-kind (FOAK) technologies for financing and investor confidence
  • Strategies to manage interconnection and permitting risk within project timelines
  • Core contract negotiation points for developers
  • Lessons from current advanced energy projects moving toward commercial scale