Emerging Energy Tech: From Pilot to Utility-Scale

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.

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.