Emerging Energy Tech: From Pilot to Utility-Scale
Ensuring Transmission, Permitting, and Bankability
Recording of a 90-minute premium CLE video webinar with Q&A
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.
Outline
- Introduction
- Transmission and interconnection considerations
- Planning and siting considerations
- Permitting and critical path
- Capital stack considerations
- Contract drafting best practices
- 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
Faculty
Elina Teplinsky
Partner
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Ms. Teplinsky, Pillsbury’s Global Energy Industry Leader and a leading member of the firm’s International... | Read More
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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