Elina Teplinsky, Pillsbury Law

We are very excited to have Elina Teplinsky, Partner and Global Energy Industry Leader at Pillsbury Law, join us for this episode of Gener8. Elina is an energy and legal expert and her experience base, along with Pillsbury Law's, covers a wide breadth of the energy topics that we typically cover. Elina’s particular area of focus tends to be around Nuclear Energy and Hydrogen as a part of today's and our future energy economy. Having recently returned from COP28 and having the value of retrospection brought on by a new year, Elina shared her thoughts on a variety of international and domestic topics related to her recent experiences and areas of practice.

Our conversation with Elina started with COP28 and what it takes to make these pledges reality, as well as how to gauge the real levels of enthusiasm around these ambitions. Before sharing more about her background and the Pillsbury Law activities in her practice area, Elina shared her perspectives on what obstacles create the most difficulty for broader development of nuclear energy. Elina then explained some of the intricacies around proposed rules for hydrogen production tax credits and how they interact with current nuclear and future assets. Discussing some of her clients’ perspectives, Elina shared some of the dichotomies between large and smaller nuclear energy assets in terms of making future project decisions as well as how her clients, future customers, and investors should think about some of the more turbulent news we’ve heard in the future nuclear space around potential lay-offs and project cancellations.

Elina brought a wealth of knowledge born from the practical work of todays and tomorrow’s nuclear technology and we hope that you can gain as much from the conversation as we did.