This week’s episode is the full recording of the panel discussion titled “Behind the Meter, Ahead of the Curve: Onsite Power for Data Centers,” held as part of NPM’s DG Development & Finance Forum on October 23, 2025 in New York City.

Speakers include:

• Kevin Imboden – Global Director of Competitive Intelligence, EdgeConneX
• Charlie Daum – VP of Development and Origination, Generate Capital
• Duncan Campbell – VP of Data Center Solutions, Scale Microgrids
• Hannan Happi – CEO and Co-Founder, Exowatt
• Ike Emehelu – Partner, Projects & Energy Transition Group, Akin (m)

The panel addresses how distributed generation developers are adapting their strategies to solve the challenges encountered in the development of onsite power generation for data center operators.

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Former FERC Commissioner Allison Clements joins the podcast to unpack Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s directive to bring large-load interconnections under FERC oversight. Now an advisor to the data center industry at ASG, Clements discusses the DOE initiative’s legal grounding and the wider energy policy landscape under the Trump administration.

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This week’s episode is the full recording of an NPM webinar discussion titled “Putting the Scale in Hyperscale,” held on August 12, 2025.

Speakers include:

• Craig McKesson - Chief Commercial Officer, Takanock
• Bill Thomas - Chief Energy Officer, CleanArc Data Centers
• Syed Ahmed - Head of Digital Infrastructure, Apterra Infrastructure Capital
• Kyle Younker - Senior Editor, NPM (m)

The panel tackles utility constraints and policy shifts, the rise of behind-the-meter strategies, changing siting logic for training vs. inference and latency needs, and how new entrants—from renewable developers to crypto miners—are reshaping capital stacks.

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Chris Taylor, founder and CEO of GridStor, a utility-scale battery storage IPP, joins the podcast this week to discuss the impact of IRS guidance for tax transferability on BESS development, RA contracts and permitting reform in CAISO and the growing trend of asset sale transactions involving BESS projects in ERCOT.

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On this week's podcast, NPM's Andrew Burnes is joined by On.Energy CEO Alan Cooper to discuss the firm's recently announced financing to fund storage development in ERCOT, the impacts of the IRA on the company's move from behind-the-meter storage to utility-scale project development, and future growth vectors for the company including partnerships with C&I solar developers.

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This week Thomas Burton, member and chair of the energy and sustainability practice for the law firm of Mintz joins NPM Managing Editor Jon Berke on the podcast.

Burton discusses the deal environment for both renewable developer platforms and projects and reviews the recent increase of foreign investment capital being routed into DG developers.

Later, Burton talks about deal flow in the RNG development space and general deal market trends to watch for during the back half of this year.

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Chris LeWand, senior managing director and leader of FTI's Power, Renewables & Utilities Practice joins NPM Managing Editor Jon Berke on the podcast this week.

LeWand weighs in on the ramifications of President Biden's recent veto of Congress attempts to repeal the two-year moratorium on solar tariffs, why Texas is pursuing a natural gas regime under recent legislation proposals and what needs to be done to grow transmission as an asset class in the US.

Later in the program, LeWand addresses the recent rise of private credit lending to renewable developers.

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In the latest edition of New Project Media’s Interconnection’s podcast, Colt Shaw, NPM’s East Coast reporter is joined by Jon Carbajal, Director of Product Development at NineDot Energy and Patrick Verdonck, Founder of Verdonck Partners.

The three discuss the future of energy storage in New York as the state considers ways to implement its ambitious 6 GW by 2030 Road Map plan. The plan proposes 3 GW of new bulk storage, 1.5 GW of new retail storage and 200 MW of new residential storage and represents at least 20% of the peak electricity load of New York State.

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On this week's podcast, Fluence Americas president John Zahurancik joins NPM managing editor Jon Berke to discuss the state of the battery energy storage market.

The two discuss the drivers and obstacles for growth and the newer technologies starting to change the sector.

Fluence, a joint venture of AES and Siemens, is a publicly traded global battery storage and renewables solutions provider.

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On this week’s podcast, NPM's Andrew Burnes is joined by Paul Gaynor, CEO of Longroad Energy, to discuss some of the major projects in the firm's pipeline.

Included in this discussion is a look at Longroad Energy's massive King Pine Wind project in Maine, a deep dive into the firm's activities in Texas, the fallout of the firm's relationship with Silicon Valley Bank, and the shifting landscape of interconnection and offtake structures.

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Andy Redinger, Managing Director Group Head at KeyBanc Capital Markets joins the podcast to discuss the short-term and longer-term impacts of the Silicon Valley Bank meltdown on the project finance market, how project finance volumes will look in 2023 and what impacts the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 will have on the renewable project finance space.

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Gary Blitz, global co-CEO for Aon's M&A and Transactions Solutions Group, joins the podcast to discuss the role that Aon plays in advising both tax equity partnerships which supports projects and also M&A for projects.

Included in this insightful discussion is a look at how both transferability and direct pay, in a limited capacity, will impact how projects are financed going forward once full IRS guidance is issued and also how project finance volumes could look through the rest of 2023.

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Daniel Revers, founder and managing partner of Boston-based energy investor ArcLight joins the podcast to discuss his views on energy storage.

He also details how ArcLight’s new venture Elevate will develop storage at its existing thermal portfolio and how another affiliate, Sequitur Renewables, is buying and re-purposing older renewable projects.

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On this week’s episode, Roy Xu, Senior Director of Power Resources at Peninsula Clean Energy (PCE) joins Jillian Ward to discuss the shifting landscape that new energy projects are facing in the wake of the US budget reconciliation bill passage. Xu also shares his view on how the energy market for California could evolve over the next few years as a result.

Roy oversees long-term resource planning, strategic supply-side procurement, and portfolio management and operation at PCE. Prior to joining PCE, Roy led wholesale power contracting at a Publicly Owned Utility in California for over a decade.

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Allan Marks of Millbank LLP joins the podcast this week to discuss the potential ramifications that Silicon Valley Bank’s failure on March 10th will have on the project finance market.

Later in the program, Marks discusses how project finance in general will be impacted by rising interest rates and also talks about the impact of foreign investors in the M&A market.

Marks will be moderating the Capital Raising & Deployment panel at NPM’s US Development & Financing Forum on March 21st at the Four Seasons Hotel in Houston. Blackstone, Lightsource bp, D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI), Cantor Fitzgerald and Fundamental Renewables representatives will also be speaking on the panel.

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Jonathan Vasdekas, the executive vice president of development for startup independent power producer Linea Energy joins the NPM podcast this week, to discuss Linea’s strategy to target ERCOT, PJM and MISO out of the gate.

In addition, Vasdekas discusses where Linea plans to focus to gain an edge in a development market already well stocked with strongly capitalized IPPs and what attributes of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 will help accelerate their growth plans.

EnCap’s Energy Transition platform recently made an investment in Linea and hired Cassidy DeLine as its new CEO in late 2022. Vasdekas formally joined the firm in January.

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This week, NPM's Andrew Burnes is joined by Jack Godshall, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer at Jupiter Power.

Godshall walks us through some of the highlights from Jupiter Power's 2022 including their acquisition by BlackRock, new manufacturing partnership with Energy Vault, and the expansion of their pipeline into new markets following the passage of the IRA. Godshall also looks ahead to the impacts those developments are expected to bring to its pipeline and the storage market as a whole throughout 2023.

As a reminder, Jupiter Power’s CFO Bruce Thompson will also be speaking on the energy storage panel at NPM’s US Development & Finance Forum 2023 in Houston on March 20-21.

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The IRS released guidance on February 13 related to the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, including the much-anticipated low-income adder to the ITC under section 48(e) for qualified solar and wind facilities. The adder, which can increase the 30% ITC by an additional 10%-20%, authorizes 1.8 GW of dc capacity limitations to be awarded to projects under the program in 2023 and 2024.

Joining the program today is RJ Arsenault of FTI Consulting to discuss this guidance and the different clean energy strategies that developers are deploying to capture the adder and benefit low-income communities.

Arsenault is the managing director in the Power, Renewables and Energy Transition practice and has worked with developers, sponsors, lenders and clients across the entire power supply chain.

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Last spring, NPM reported on a number of study delays accumulating in NYISO’s interconnection queue.

In early December, NPM reported that NYISO was considering improvements to its interconnection process, including moving to a “window-based” approach. And in late December, NYSERDA released its “Road Map” to achieving 6 GW of battery storage by 2030, the latest policy goal promising to bring loads of new renewables to the state, and a ton of new strain to the interconnection process.

Patrick Verdonck, founder and CEO of Verdonck Partners, has some 20 years of energy experience and currently advises power companies, renewable developers, and investors on M&A and capital raising.

He joins NPM’s Colt Shaw to discuss the trends that led us to this moment, how developers are adjusting, and how these trends are likely to play out moving forward.

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In this week's edition of the NPM podcast, Eli Katz, partner and global vice chair of Latham & Watkins' Energy & Infrastructure Group forecasts when the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will provide full guidance on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

In addition, Katz provides an update on how some of the mechanics of the tax transferability clause are being worked out within the confines of the legislation and discusses the current state of some other aspects of the bill.

Later in the program, Katz outlines M&A trends in the renewable and energy transition space to focus on for 2023.

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In this episode, Scott Steimer, a principal at ECP, sits down with NPM’s Jillian Farmer to discuss the firm’s renewable energy platform, the push for new community solar projects out West, and ECP’s growth in existing and new markets.

Steimer’s work is focused primarily on originating and executing investments within the power generation and renewable sector in North America. He currently serves on the board of New Leaf Energy, Pivot Energy, and Heartland Generation.

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This week on the Interconnections podcast, NPM’s East Coast Reporter Colt Shaw is joined by Matt Beasley, Chief Commercial Officer with Silicon Ranch.

In late October, the Georgetown County Council in South Carolina deferred the second “reading” or vote for Silicon Ranch’s Lambert I and II solar projects after sustained vocal opposition from some residents. That reading was deferred to this week.

Matt Beasley sat down to chat with New Project Media ahead of the hearing about residential opposition to solar projects, how it has changed in recent years, and why the solar industry needs to meet the pushback with transparency and information. Beasley previously served as President of the Tennessee chapter of Solar Energy Industries Association, or TenneSEIA, and has witnessed firsthand the growth of solar across the Southeast.

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Joining the podcast this week is Beth Waters, senior managing director in the power vertical for MUFG Americas’ project finance team.

Ms. Waters forecasts major trends for project finance in 2023, including how the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA22) will impact the economics of project development from the view of a lender with a strong set of developer clients.

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This week, NPM’s Andrew Burnes is joined by Manish Nayar, Founder and CEO at OYA Ventures. 

Manish walks us through the firm's new joint venture with Oil Well Shares and how the new venture anticipates capturing additional tax credits via "energy communities" under the IRA. 

Beyond that, Manish discusses OYA's growing interest in utility-scale solar and storage, as well as how the firm is combating interconnection and supply bottlenecks as it moves through a significant period of personnel and pipeline expansion.

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On this week's episode, Andrew Burnes is joined by Jon Rodriguez, Energy Business Director for Engine Power Plants at Wartsila to discuss the huge lead times the natural gas industry is facing in the wake of a massive spike in demand driven by data center load growth.

Jon discusses Wartsila's reliance on RICE technology and how they are able to get 300 MW projects in the ground in a 2-year timeframe, as well as some of the bottlenecks the data center industry is facing and how that may impact development over the remainder of the decade.

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In this episode, Tom Fallgren, the Principal Generation Advisor for the Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) sits down with NPM’s Jillian Farmer to discuss the San Juan replacement project delays, reasons behind these industry delays, and PNM’s plans to maneuver around it for future capacity via its new market RFP.

Fallgren was previously the Vice President of Generation for PNM and has over 38 years of experience in the generation industry. 

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In this week’s podcast, sponsored by FTI Consulting, FTI senior managing director Justin Pugh sits down with NPM managing editor, Jon Berke to highlight some of the major incentives introduced in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and in particular how he envisions a domestic supply chain growing under the IRA. Pugh also discusses how the ongoing interconnection logjam could be impacted by the accelerated build out of solar and wind under the legislation.

Pugh goes on to review the ITC tax credit included for standalone storage and how it presents a buffer of sorts as a non-wire alternative generation source given the lack of transmission incentives.

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Randolph Mann, president and founder of esVolta, joins NPM managing editor, Jonathan Berke to walk through the growth of the company as a developer of front-of-the-meter energy storage systems, some of the economics of the CAISO market for energy storage and how the standalone ITC tax credit, introduced in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, will impact its business model.

Mann will also be speaking at NPM’s US Energy Storage Development Forum 2022 in San Diego where he will be on the Platform Building & Project Finance panel to close out day 2 of the conference on October 26th.

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In this episode, Matthew Kozey, Director for Community-Scale Markets at Cypress Creek Renewables, sits down with NPM’s Jillian Farmer to discuss California’s new Assembly Bill 2316. 

AB 2316 will establish a new community solar program for the state, along with the requirement to include storage, something that has not been seen in other community solar legislation across the U.S.

Kozey is an attorney by training, with over a decade of experience at the intersections of the energy business and public policy, including over six years at a utility, as well as direct lobbying for solar energy policy priorities in state houses and at state commissions.

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Quinn Pasloske, a principal with Greenbacker Development Opportunities Fund, joins the NPM podcast this week to discuss the ongoing M&A and investment trends impacting renewable developers.

He also provides some early thoughts on how the Inflation Reduction Act will help spur project development in both the short and medium-term, inclusive of community solar.

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In this episode, NPM's Andrew Burnes is joined by Standard Solar CEO Scott Wiater

Standard Solar is one of the leading community solar developers in the US and active in many of the largest community solar states in the country including New York, Massachusetts, Maryland and Maine. 

Following the IRA, the sector is poised to benefit from a number of different tax credit adders and benefits, including those for projects of less than 5 MW, using American manufacturing, and benefiting low- and moderate-income subscribers. 

Scott walks us through his interpretation of these issues and how they will impact Standard Solar. He also provides updates on legacy issues like interconnection costs, congestion, and the Auxin solar tariff investigation while giving us a snapshot of what to expect from Standard Solar over the next 18 months.

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In this episode, Scott Farris, senior manager of government affairs for EDP Renewables North America, sits down with NPM’s Jillian Farmer to discuss California’s new alternative permitting process through the state’s Energy Commission and other efforts to accelerate the development of renewable energy projects.

Farris has been an advocate within the clean energy industry for 20 years and has worked for the governors of Wyoming and California, a United States senator and former mayor of Portland, Oregon. A former United Press International bureau chief, Farris is also the author of four books of political history and his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.

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In this episode, NPM’s Colt Shaw is joined by Brendon Shank, Executive Vice President at Solar Landscape.

The New Jersey-based developer was far and away the biggest winner in the state’s first two pilot years for community solar. The company has some 70 projects built or under construction and is responsible for 8 of the 14 active projects in New Jersey at the moment.

With the runaway success of the program during its first two years, the state cancelled the planned third pilot year and issued a Request for Comments in the spring. The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) is now in the process of readying its Straw Proposal to establish its permanent program, expected in the third quarter. Solar Landscape is pushing for the state to go big and aim for 300 MW a year.

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With the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 likely to be voted upon by the House of Representatives on Friday, August 12th, Allan T. Marks, partner and member of Milbank’s global project energy and infrastructure finance group joins the podcast this week to discuss the major impacts that the Act will have on the clean energy sector. 

The discussion includes which sectors will benefit the most and how leaving the ITC tax credit for transmission out of the Act will impact clean energy development. Later in the program, Marks also discusses how both deal flow and project finance will be impacted by the Act.

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Sheldon Kimber, the CEO and founder of renewable developer Intersect Power joins the podcast to discuss the possible impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 —announced on July 27 after Senators Manchin and Schumer reached a compromise— on renewable energy development and the renewable supply chain. 

Later, Kimber walks us through Intersect Power’s 8 GW pipeline, including its future entrance into the wind market and how green hydrogen will be one of the target uses of its USD 750m in capital the company raised in late June from TPG Rise and others.

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NPM's Kyle Younker is joined on this week's podcast by Hannan Happi, co-founder and CEO of Exowatt, a startup delivering modular, dispatchable solar power solutions tailored to meet the exploding energy demand from AI and data centers.

Hannan explains how Exowatt’s flagship product, the P3, uses custom optics and long-duration heat batteries to convert solar energy into on-demand electricity—without relying on government subsidies or rare minerals.

Hannan also explains the company's ambitious goal to deliver power at 1 cent per kWh and lays out the path to get there through factory-scale manufacturing. He also notes the company's early traction with hyperscale data center operators who are expected to finance deployment of the P3 with their own balance sheets.

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In this episode, NPM Managing Editor Jon Berke is joined by Andrew Waranch, founder of Miami Beach, Florida-based Spearmint Energy.

The two discuss Spearmint Energy’s nascent battery storage platform, the challenges in funding battery storage projects and also favorable environments for both developing and owning energy storage systems.

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In this episode, NPM reporter Jillian Farmer speaks with Curtis VanWalleghem, CEO of Hydrostor, about its compressed air storage technology and what it means for the battery storage and renewable energy industry.

Curtis has been CEO of Hydrostor since its inception and has led the company through technology development into commercial operations. Prior to Hydrostor, Curtis worked in Deloitte’s Corporate Strategy Consulting Practice where he advised and consulted for some of the top energy companies globally. He has also worked at nuclear generator Bruce Power.

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Dr. Michael Bakunin joins us on the first NPM Interconnections podcast sponsored by FTI Consulting to discuss the rise of electric vehicles in the US and the related infrastructure that will be necessary to support them. Later in the program, Bakunin also talks about how bi-directional chargers could be valuable for both charging vehicles and dispatching excess energy to the grid. 

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In this episode, NPM renewable energy reporter Jillian Farmer speaks with John Rohde, the CEO of RES in the Americas, about interconnection challenges, industry changes, and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Auxin investigation.

RES is the world’s largest independent renewable energy company and John is responsible for its North American operations. He has over 25 years of experience managing international and regional operations, most recently serving as COO of Engie Services.

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In this episode of the NPM Interconnections podcast, Jon Berke is joined by Reuben Munger, managing partner of Colorado-based Vision Ridge Partners to discuss his views on the energy transition. 

Vision Ridge has been an investor in energy transition companies since its founding in 2008 and has raised USD 2.5bn thru its three vintage Sustainable Asset Fund series, including closing the USD 1.125bn Fund III last year. Included in this was successfully monetizing its investment in energy storage developer Key Capture Energy in a sale to SK E&S.

On the podcast, Munger walks through his views on the current market environment for RNG and electric vehicles and how policy changes may impact these industries. He also gives his views on the supply chain issues in solar and wind industries.

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In the latest edition of the Interconnections podcast, J. Paul Forrester and Lauren Bachtel of Mayer Brown LLP talk with NPM’s Jon Berke and Colt Shaw to discuss the growth of offshore wind projects in the US, some of its present-day risks, the financing backdrop and finally the state of the domestic supply chain for offshore wind development.

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In this episode, NPM’s Andrew Burnes is joined by Jon Rodriguez, Energy Business Director for Wärtsilä Energy.

Wärtsilä is a longtime natural gas developer that has also been involved in energy storage development since 2017. With his unique background, Rodriguez discusses his views on the energy transition and the role that firm, flexible generation may serve during the next phase of renewable energy growth across the country. He also walks us through his thoughts on the burgeoning hydrogen market, and the supply challenges currently facing the storage industry.

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In this episode, Nobel Chang, Managing Partner of Jacksonville, Florida-based Palladium Energy sits down with NPM Managing Editor, Jon Berke.

The two discuss the challenges of scaling a project development and finance business, while also dealing with the perfect storm of both existing supply chain issues and the potential impacts of the Auxin anti-circumvention inquiry.

Palladium has a roughly 1 GW pipeline of solar + storage projects in de-regulated markets including PJM, ERCOT, MISO and in its traditional markets in the southeast.

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In this episode, NPM's Managing Editor Jon Berke is joined by Gregg Dixon, the CEO and Chairman of Voltus.

The two discuss the company's distributed energy resource software model, how it interacts with various users of power and how today’s ongoing supply chain crisis will impact the company’s business model. Gregg also discusses the challenges in modernizing today's grid.

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In this episode, NPM's Andrew Burnes is joined by FuelCell Energy CEO Jason Few.

FuelCell is a development and technology firm actively involved in both blue and green hydrogen development, as well as the deployment of carbon capture. Its most high profile project currently is an ongoing green hydrogen project with Toyota in Long Beach, California.

Few walks us through these two markets as they currently stand in the US and discusses how he expects them to evolve over the next several years as well as the critical role he thinks both will play in the energy landscape of the future.

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On this episode, NPM Europe editor Peter Kneller is joined by Tion Renewables CEO Ingmar Helmke to discuss the flexibility that being an IPP provides and strategies for incorporating BESS into the renewables generation mix.

Helmke also shares his views on how power demand will eventually chart higher, and why the German government probably shouldn't be supporting the roll-out of a new wave of gas peakers.

Headquartered in Munich, Tion Renewables focuses on building and operating onshore wind and onshore solar farms as well as battery energy storage systems across Europe. The company was originally listed in 2019 and was delisted by the investment organization EQT Group in 2024. It holds a major share in the independent power producer clearvise AG.

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In this episode, NPM renewable energy reporter Jillian Farmer speaks with Cory Schaeffer, CEO of NexESS Analytics, about the battery storage market.

Cory Schaeffer has more than 25 years of experience in engineering, project management, and leadership with expertise in such diverse arenas as renewable energy manufacturing and project deployments, industrial controls, and advanced manufacturing engineering. 

For the past 15 years, he has focused on the transfer of innovative technologies into commercial-scale solutions and products from concept to commercial acceptance. He has held various product and project leadership roles at General Electric focused on battery and solar technology advancement, renewable grid integration, and alternative energy project development and execution. Prior to starting NexESS Analytics, he developed and led the Leidos Engineering independent engineering and owner’s advisory energy storage practice.

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Allan Marks, a partner in Milbank's Global Projects, Energy & Infrastructure Finance group joins NPM managing editor Jon Berke to discuss a variety of topics including the project finance outlook in 2022, forecasting the M&A market in 2022 following a robust 2021 for trades of renewable developers and how federal infrastructure act passed in November 2021 will impact the electric vehicle market.

Separately, on April 5th 2022, Marks will also be moderating the energy transition panel at NPM's US Developer & Financing Forum in Houston. The panel includes Marjorie Hong, Shell Renewable Generation’s Head of Onshore Renewable Power Development, Apex Clean Energy’s VP of Finance Omar Karar, Blackstone Infrastructure’s Senior MD Matthew Runkle, EnCap Investments Energy Transition’s Managing Partner Jim Hughes, and Bill Caesar’s President of Generate Capital’s waste-to-value platform.

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In this episode, NPM's Andrew Burnes is joined by Ambri’s Chief Commercial Officer, Adam Briggs.

As renewable penetration continues to increase across the US grid, the demand and deployment of large-scale battery storage projects is on the rise. But with lithium-ion technologies hitting a four-hour ceiling, the demand for longer duration storage may require new technology to enter the fold.

Briggs, a multi-decade veteran of the battery industry, discusses the evolution and challenges facing the battery storage market and how Ambri, with its innovative approach to battery storage, may fit into the market in the years ahead.

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