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On this Interconnections podcast we have Mark Gabriel, president and CEO of Colorado-based United Power to talk about its separation from Tri-State and upcoming renewable energy procurement.

Mark Gabriel is a 25-year veteran in the electric utility business. Prior to United Power, he served as Administrator and CEO of the Western Area Power Administration and as Acting President at the Electric Power Research Institute, where he led a nationwide effort known as the Electricity Sector Framework for the Future. He is also the author of the Indie Award-winning book, Visions for a Sustainable Energy Future.

Upon joining United Power in March, Gabriel took over energy negotiations with the cooperative’s wholesale power provider, Tri-State G&T, and together with staff developed a 10-year plan providing direction for the future of the co-op.

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On this Interconnections podcast we have Paulo Misk, CEO and President of Largo Inc.

Largo is a vertically integrated supplier of vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) focused on long-duration energy storage applications.

Misk joined Largo in 2014, where he led the commissioning of the Maracás Menchen Mine and has since been instrumental in a multitude of achievements at the company. He was promoted in 2018 and became President and CEO in 2019.

He holds over 35 years of experience in operational management for various large multi-national companies such as AMG Brasil, Anglo American and Largo Resources, across a wide range of specialty commodities including vanadium oxide, tin, lithium, and other industrial minerals.

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For this episode, NPM's Managing Editor Jon Berke speaks with Patrick Verdonck, founder of energy storage developer Rhynland Energy and financial advisory firm Verdonck Partners about the current state of the US transmission market.

The two discuss how the USD 1.2trn Infrastructure and Jobs Act will address transmission deficits, what regional ISOs are doing to get transmission built to support onshore renewables growth and what transmission options are being explored for the nascent US offshore wind market.

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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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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 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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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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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, 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 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 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 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 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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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. 

FTI Consulting’s Power, Renewables & Energy Transition Practice helps clients across the value chain navigate the energy transition by providing a wide array of advisory services addressing the strategic, financial, operational, reputational, regulatory and capital needs of our clients.

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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, 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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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CleanCapital’s CEO Thomas Byrne and Chief Commercial Officer Julia Bell join NPM’s Jon Berke and Michelle France to discuss its recent USD 500m commitment from ManuLife Investment Management and how the company plans to deploy the capital across specific industry verticals.

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On this week's episode, NPM’s Andrew Burnes is joined by Jesse Gronner, Founder and CEO of Triple Oak Power. 

Gronner discusses his interesting path through the industry and deep well of experience in the Oregon market before reviewing the driving focus of Triple Oak and the company's unique approach to asset management.

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On this week’s episode, NPM managing editor Jon Berke is joined by Declan Flanagan, Founder & CEO of Bluestar Energy Capital. Formerly EVP and CEO of Orsted Onshore, Flanagan established Nova Clean Energy in the US and BEA Renewables in Australia in 2022 to pursue greenfield renewable development opportunities.

On today’s program, Flanagan discusses Nova’s growth plan and later expresses views on US transmission and the green hydrogen market.

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Mike Reynolds, managing director of infrastructure private equity firm Ultra Capital, joins this week’s podcast to discuss his firm’s investing model, how different aspects of the Inflation Reduction Act will impact the renewable energy industry and the opportunities that industrial decarbonization could represent.

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On this week's episode of the podcast, host Andrew Burnes is joined by Scout Clean Energy Founder and CEO Michael Rucker to discuss the firm's growing solar pipeline and evolving acquisition strategy on the heels of its acquisition by Brookfield.

The conversation also features a deep dive into recent interconnection reform proposals from MISO and FERC and the impacts Michael projects on Scout's pipeline.

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On this week’s episode, NPM's Jillian Ward and Michelle France are joined by Autumn Johnson, executive director for the Arizona Solar Energy Industries Association (AriSEIA). AriSEIA is the state’s solar, storage, and electrification trade association.

Johnson speaks about the Arizona Community Solar Program's current status, why it is not yet the vibrant program developers had hoped to see and what changes can be made to help the state reach its potential.

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Frank Getman joins the NPM podcast this week to discuss the state of the capital markets for renewable energy developers heading into the final third of 2023.

Great Bay, a renewable royalty financing company, has deployed about USD 300m between developing and operating projects, spread across more than 15 GW of wind, solar, and storage.

On the program, Getman talks about the ability to differentiate in an increasingly diverse world of pre-development lenders and how developers are adjusting to capital needs amidst an environment complicated by inflation, higher interconnection costs and supply chain issues.

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Solstice co-founders, Steph Speirs and Sandhya Murali, join the NPM podcast this week, as well as their policy coordinator, Alex Pasanen, to discuss what developers should keep in mind in the early stages of project planning, subscription-friendly markets, and their work in New Mexico, where they partnered with four developers to subscribe 100 MW of community solar projects.

Steph is a keynote speaker at NPM's upcoming DG Development & Finance Forum 2023 at etc.venues - 360 Madison Ave in Midtown NYC on October 10-11.

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Dean Keller, a partner in boutique advisory firm Independence Point Advisors, joins the podcast this week to discuss lessons learned from his days as a junior energy banker in Salomon Smith Barney where he worked with Enron, prior to its bankruptcy, amongst other independent power producer giants.

Keller goes on to discuss the hurdles and solutions in developing energy storage and what is coming down the pike as the energy transition industry attracts and deploys increasingly large amounts of capital.

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Bryen Alperin, partner and managing director of tax credit specialist Foss & Co. joins the podcast this week to discuss the intersection of community solar and tax credits. Alperin reviews financing options for the asset class prior to the Inflation Reduction Act and discusses how conditions have evolved into today’s environment where transferability and other measures are expected to accelerate development.

Alperin will next appear as a panelist on the Project Finance Fireside Chat at NPM’s Distributed Generation Development & Finance Forum (#DGNYC23) taking place at etc. venues, 360 Madison Ave in Midtown NYC on October 10-11th. The panel also includes Radial Power’s CFO Ed Kent, Andy Redinger of KeyBanc and moderator Vaughan Morrison of Troutman Pepper.

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Alan Alexander, a partner in Vinson & Elkins LLP's  Energy Transaction & Projects practice and head of its hydrogen and ammonia task force, joins the podcast to discuss the state of the green hydrogen market in the US.

Alexander provides insight on when guidance is coming from the US Department of Energy (DOE) on the production tax credit for Section 45V and when funding is coming from the hydrogen hub pilot program. Alexander also addresses how when combined, both mechanisms, will reduce the cost for GH2 and provides a look at recent European developments and the best commercial uses for GH2 at this juncture.


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Allan Marks, partner with Milbank LLP’s Global Project, Energy and Infrastructure Finance Group, joins the podcast this week to discuss the recently awarded USD 7bn hydrogen hub program winners.

Marks discusses how the selected applicants will apply for the funds, why the Department of Energy picked winners in both green hydrogen and other forms of hydrogen and what the applicants that weren’t selected for an award can do to support their own projects in the growing hydrogen ecosystem.

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Mark Gabriel, president and CEO of United Power, joins the podcast this week to discuss the ongoing transmission challenges out West.

Gabriel dives into the transmission issues being faced in states like Colorado, where he has put United Power on the path of hyper-localization as a way to bypass the need for transmission. Gabriel sees hyper-localization as the future for not just cooperatives like United Power, but utilites too. He also provides an update on United Power’s exit from Tri-State G&T.

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On this week's episode, NPM’s Andrew Burnes is joined by Jenny Netherton, Senior Program Manager at Southeastern Wind Coalition and Helen Rose Patterson, Senior Campaign Manager for Offshore Wind at the National Wildlife Federation to discuss the advent of offshore wind in Louisiana state waters.

Together, Jenny and Helen Rose answer poignant questions about whether offshore wind in state waters, essentially unprecedented elsewhere in the country, is feasible, whether demand on the ground for offshore wind in Louisiana is genuine or policy-driven, and the challenges developers interested in in the area will face when compared to the much more vetted federal WEAs identified by BOEM. The policy experts also predict some major announcements from Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards related to offshore wind, some of which may come sooner than expected.

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Vitaly Lee, EVP & Chief Development Officer for Q Cells USA joins Jon Berke on the NPM podcast this week.

Over the course of the program, Lee addresses current obstacles and solutions in siting and permitting for solar and storage projects, procurement updates in some of its major markets including New York and Pacificorp service territories, new market opportunities and supply chain challenges.

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Gabe Murtaugh, Director of Markets and Technology for the Long Duration Energy Storage Council, joins the NPM Interconnections Podcast this week to discuss the current state of play for long duration storage in the US.

A former storage sector manager for CAISO, Murtaugh discusses the impact of recent policy drivers at the federal level, including the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill and the Inflation Reduction Act, differing RTO and ISO approaches to energy storage, domestic manufacturing and how storage functioning as a transmission asset could ease transmission congestion and help grid operators avoid costlier grid upgrades.

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On this week's podcast, Juan Macias, CEO of AlphaStruxure joins NPM’s Jon Berke and Reagin von Lehe to discuss his company’s business model as a developer and owner of tailored energy infrastructure solutions, including microgrids.

Over the course of the interview, Macias discusses microgrid projects at the under-construction JFK Terminal One and at bus depots in Montgomery County, Maryland as well as the growth prospects for AlphaStruxure, a joint venture between The Carlyle Group and Schneider Electric, over the coming years.

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On this week's episode, NPM's Andrew Burnes is joined by Louisiana PSC commissioner Davante Lewis who is wrapping up his first year in office and is grappling with major policy discussions in the state regarding whether renewable project development should be allowed outside the purview of the vertically integrated utilities.

Mr. Lewis walks us through that debate and the interest level on the ground for opening up renewable project development. He also shares his concerns about specific technologies earmarked for development in Louisiana including offshore wind and carbon capture and storage.

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In the first NPM podcast of 2024, William Demas, Head of Americas at the Green Investment Group of Macquarie Asset Management discusses renewable energy and energy transition investment trends with NPM Managing Editor Jon Berke.

Demas forecasts consolidation coming amongst solar developers as the industry continues to scale. Later in the program, Demas discusses MAM’s approach to green hydrogen including its recent investment in GH2 derivative Atlas Agro.


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Jason Segal and Patrick Norton, managing directors of specialist merchant banking firm Javelin Capital join the NPM podcast this week to discuss M&A trends in 2024, including addressing the growing role of structured equity transactions, platform valuations and how storage might factor into these trends.

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Manny Citron, Chief of Staff for Philadelphia’s Department of Labor, joins NPM’s Colt Shaw this week to discuss the forthcoming Mid-Atlantic Clean Hydrogen Hub, dubbed MACH2.

The city’s point man for the project, Citron discusses next steps for the ambitious hub and the early partners already lining up to participate, as well as the hope that hydrogen could one day power hard-to-electrify sectors like heavy industry and trucking across the Mid-Atlantic.

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Garrett Peterson, co-founder of start-up developer Sigma Renewables, joins the podcast to talk about permitting at the local and state levels, particularly as it pertains to distributed generation.

Later, Peterson discusses how smaller developers are getting impacted by queue backlog and interconnection reform.

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Elias Hinckley, a partner at Baker Botts joins Jon Berke on the NPM podcast to discuss the latest developments in clean hydrogen, including guidance released before the holidays by the IRS on the section 45V tax credit which called for hourly matching.

The two then discuss other major pillars of the IRS guidance including regionality and additionality. Hinckley also provides insights on how this might help participants in the forthcoming hydrogen hub funding program.

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Tony Dutzik, Associate Director and Senior Policy Analyst at Frontier Group joins NPM Reporter Reagin von Lehe on the podcast to discuss the future of the small-scale rooftop solar market, especially in states with new net metering legislation such as California, Massachusetts and South Carolina.

Frontier Group said in its most recent report that small-scale rooftop solar projects are delivering 10x more power than a decade ago. California was the leader in this market, but changes to the state’s net metering policy, which cut the value of solar energy credits by about 75 percent, has left rooftop solar with an uncertain future in the state.

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Keith Derman, Partner and Co-Head of Ares Infrastructure Opportunities, joins the podcast this week to discuss investing opportunities in renewable energy today, what emerging clean energy areas are attractive and some thoughts around corporate offtake.

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Steve Lieberman, Vice President of Transmission and Regulatory Affairs at American Municipal Power (or AMP), joins Colt Shaw on the NPM Podcast this week to discuss PJM’s ongoing efforts to reform its forward-looking capacity market in the face of looming reliability concerns.

Lieberman discusses the good and the bad of recent FERC-approved reforms, including stop-loss measures for non-performance charges, the unpredictability of tech-specific class ratings and how they impact Effective Load Carrying Capacity, developer concern over a lack of transparency in the process, the potential for future changes to the Market Seller Offer Cap, and more.


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On this week's episode of the NPM podcast, host Andrew Burnes is joined by Stem's VP of Front-of-the-Meter Solutions Jake Berlin.

The two have an in-depth discussion of the ERCOT storage market, the trend toward larger vs. smaller projects, storage activity in Texas' ancillary services, and the introduction of alternative revenue streams like tolling agreements.

Jake also discusses the impact of the IRA on nascent storage markets and the work he and his team are doing to expand beyond the storage hotspots of Texas and California.

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Allan Marks, a member of Milbank’s Global Project Energy and Infrastructure Finance Group, joins NPM Managing Editor Jon Berke on the podcast this week to discuss capital market conditions for clean energy projects. The two review the current impacts of inflation, recent platform M&A deal trends, and the increased number of utilities looking at large-scale procurement of renewables.

Separately, Marks is also moderating a panel on April 9th at NPM’s US Development and Financing Forum at the Four Seasons Hotel in Houston, alongside executives at Linea Energy, REV Renewables, Ares Management, and CIBC.

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On NPM’s 100th podcast episode, host Jillian Ward is joined by Scout Clean Energy’s founder and CEO Michael Rucker to discuss the ISO migration in the West and what it could mean for developers.

Scout is a renewable energy owner-operator with projects in 26 U.S. states. Scout was also acquired by the Brookfield Global Transition Fund in 2022, and the company continues to expand its operations throughout the U.S.

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Aaron Halimi, founder and President of Renewable Properties, a community solar developer, owner and operator based in San Francisco, joins NPM Reporter Michelle France, to discuss the status of a community solar program in California and why he and dozens of other developers are urging Governor Gavin Newsom to get involved following the most recent proposed decision by the California Public Utility's Commission.

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Hans Royal, Senior Director of Renewable Energy and Carbon Advisory for Schneider Electric joins the NPM podcast to discuss the different ways data centers are procuring clean energy today.

Royal also provides a follow-up on Schneider Electric’s recent tax credit transferability agreement with Engie and the emerging dynamics he sees impacting future transferability transactions.

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This week, host Andrew Burnes is joined by OPAL Fuels Co-CEO Adam Comora who discusses the advent of RNG in both the transportation and electricity sector, and OPAL Fuels' vertically integrated approach to managing its pipeline between both subsets of offtakers.

Comora also discusses the USD 500m credit facility the firm closed in September of last year and how it will fit into the company's pipeline, as well as some of the tax benefits unlocked through the IRA that the company plans to utilize.

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Scott Jacobs, CEO and co-founder of sustainable infrastructure platform Generate Capital, joins the podcast today to discuss a variety of topics, including his views on the obstacles that the US faces to reach infrastructure transition goals, the impacts of inflation on the process and how the Inflation Reduction Act has impacted Generate’s clean energy investments.

As reported, Generate Capital was part of the latest fundraise by Pine Gate Renewables, and over the years has invested in community solar developers Nexamp and Cultivate Power, front-of-the-meter battery storage developer esVolta and RNG developer Amp Americas.

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Kevin Smith, the CEO of Arevon Energy, joins the podcast this week to discuss its solar and storage activities in CAISO and MISO, some background behind recent financing packages for four of its projects and new geographic markets it is exploring.

Arevon is backed by an investor group including CalSTRS, APG and ADIA following an August 2021 transaction which saw Capital Dynamics and Arevon Asset Management launch the platform. At present the company has 3.5 GW of projects in operation, 1.5 GW under construction and an additional 5 GW of solar and storage projects under development across the US.

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NPM's Andrew Burnes is joined this week by energy social scientist Robi Nilson of Berkeley Labs who recently led a study researching utility-scale renewable project delays and cancellations.

Nilson does a deep dive into the results of that study with a particular focus on local opposition, the impacts it has on solar vs. wind projects, and the steps developers can take to avoid and mitigate opposition obstacles.

Finally, Nilson provides her take on the growing number of states shifting renewable energy project siting oversight away from the local level and its possible ramifications going forward.

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Host Andrew Burnes welcomes Jupiter Power's Caitlin Smith to the podcast this week to discuss some of the specifics of ERCOT's upcoming market redesigns including the Texas Energy Fund, Real-Time Co-Optimization and Performance Credit Mechanism.

Smith also discusses her strategies heading into the next legislative session, which is already gearing up for early 2025. Finally, Smith discusses Jupiter Power's own pipeline expansion beyond Texas, drivers from newer offtakers like data centers, and increased activity in the storage market.


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With Europe’s power market looking to steady itself after a period of volatile prices, NPM Europe Editor Peter Kneller welcomes Lightsource bp’s Zosia Riesner to the podcast to discuss key PPA dynamics and some abiding principles to bear in mind when striking deals.

Riesner also discusses the interplay between PPA prices and government-backed support measures, touching on Italy’s recently announced intention to introduce new generous looking auction tariffs and concern from some quarters over the impact this could have on the country’s offtake market.

Also on the agenda, navigating PPA negotiations with corporate buyer consortia, the market’s need to prepare for the complexities of PPAs with co-located solar with storage assets, and an assessment of developer-led, “reverse-auction” PPA tenders as a procurement tool.


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Coming off SolaREIT surpassing 2,000 acres of community solar land financed through its flexible capital, the company’s founder and CEO Laura Pagliarulo, joins the NPM podcast this week to explore all the options a solar developer has in monetizing real estate at NTP.

Pagliarulo also discusses the business’ foray into storage and how inflation has impacted SolaREIT’s business model.


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Nicole Steele, Workforce and Equitable Access Program Manager at the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office, joins NPM Reporter Michelle France on this week's podcast.

Steele discusses the Least-Cost Optimal Distribution Grid Expansion model (LODGE) currently under development, which aims to identify cost-effective ways community solar and storage can be sited on the grid.


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Harmony Energy CEO Peter Kavanagh joins NPM host Jon McNair on the podcast this week to take a look at some of the most exciting battery storage markets now emerging across Europe.

After cutting its teeth in the UK, Harmony is now actively developing new projects in France, Germany, Poland and Italy, and Peter offers his views on some of the relative merits of each country's battery storage sectors, including revenue streams, trading strategies, financing and grid access.

Kavanagh also gives an appraisal of an at-times difficult year for battery storage operators and listed infrastructure fund managers in the UK, along with a forecast for where the market may head in the coming quarters.


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Vinod Mukani, the Global Head of Infrastructure and Power Finance for Nomura joins the podcast this week to discuss the outlook for capital markets in the 2H24, how the forthcoming US Presidential election might influence clean energy finance and also update the current financing environment for Europe.

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NPM Europe Co-editor Jon McNair sits down with Schroders Greencoat duo Richard Nourse and David Boyce to reflect on some of the parallels and differences between investing in European and US renewable energy assets.

Founded in the UK in 2009 as Greencoat Capital, the fund manager in 2021 entered the US market and now invests across a variety of technologies and geographies on both sides of the Atlantic, giving it a privileged view across the investment landscape in its target markets.

We'll hear views from Nourse and Boyce on the Inflation Reduction Act, the relative merits of various project incentives frameworks in different countries, the macroeconomic drivers behind recent investment and fundraising trends, geopolitical developments in renewables, and much more.


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Jonathon Kaufman, Head of Infrastructure and Energy Transition at Evercore, joins the podcast to discuss ongoing and looming market trends in M&A in both the conventional renewable and thermal space.

Later in the program, he discusses the impact of data centers on capital formation, whether we might see a return to the public markets for renewable energy developers and some broader observations about the impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act.


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Leo Moreno, CEO of Zelestra joins the podcast this week to discuss the company's recent rebranding from Solarpack and the aggressive expansion of its pipeline.

Moreno discusses Zelestra's growth trajectory in the US and compares that with what it's doing abroad in other markets including Europe and India.

He also discusses the diversification of the company's pipeline from solar into wind, storage and even green hydrogen and the hiring ramp the company is currently undergoing to bring that to bear.

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John DiMarco, managing director of global infrastructure fund manager Igneo Infrastructure Partners joins the podcast to discuss the status of emerging technologies such as nuclear in the wake of the ADVANCE Act signed in July by the Biden Administration, the state of the electric vehicle market and supporting EV infrastructure and clean fuels.

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On this week's episode, LineVision's VP of Client Success Karthik Rao speaks about the company's dynamic line rating technology and how it is being used by utilities to decrease congestion through software rather than through new transmission builds.

Karthik also discusses the federal push for further implementation of this technology as well as his stance on where the ball should fall between incentives vs. mandates for this push.

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This week, NPM Europe welcomes Eurowind Energy chief executive Jens Rasmussen on the pod to discuss German repowering, opportunities in the Romanian renewables market and how to mitigate against grid constraints, amongst many other topics.

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Hilary Preston, vice-chair of the law firm Vinson & Elkins joins the podcast to discuss the intersection of patents with clean energy development, inclusive of a decision made by the US Patent and Trademark Office in June 2023 to expand its Climate Change Mitigation Pilot program.

Later in the program, Ms. Preston reviews areas of innovation she has observed recently across clean energy development.

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Gabe Phillips, CEO and Founder of Catalyst Power joins NPM reporters Michelle France and Skyler Frazer, to discuss the commercial and industrial (C&I) solar landscape, touching on policy, revenue generating strategies, and overcoming barriers to advancement. 

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​On this week's episode, Andrew Burnes is joined by Scout Clean Energy's new Chief Development Officer Kris Cheney, who started at the company over the summer following a 15-year stretch at EDPR.

Cheney discusses his move to Scout and draws parallels to EDPR's growth trajectory from a mid-size wind developer to where it is today and the possibility of replicating that growth at Scout.

He also dissects the company's pipeline across wind, solar and storage and discusses the expected growth trajectory for each in specific markets across the US.

Finally, Cheney discusses the ongoing queue issues in key markets like MISO and how that is playing into the company's development pipeline as project timelines continue to balloon.

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Joel Gamoran, Arcadia’s Vice President & General Manager, Energy Services joins reporter Michelle France to discuss the community solar subscription landscape, the monetization of IRA incentives, and a unique community solar model that doesn't require community solar legislation.

You can hear Joel speak more during the first panel at NPM's Distributed Generation Development & Financing Forum being held on October 24 in New York City, alongside panelists from Perch Energy, New York Power Authority (NYPA), AC Power, and Trajectory Energy Partners.


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Ben Huffman, a partner in Sheppard Mullin’s energy infrastructure and project finance team joins the NPM podcast to discuss some trends emerging in debt financing and tax transferability.

Later in the program, Huffman discusses what impact if any, the looming elections will have on clean energy policy.


New Project Media (NPM) is a leading data, intelligence, and events company providing origination led coverage of the US and European renewable energy markets for the development, finance, M&A, and corporate community.

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Foresight Group Managing Director Ross Driver joins the podcast this week to assess the current fundraising and investment landscape for listed renewable energy funds, such as Foresight Solar Fund for which he oversees the mandate. 

These listed investment trusts, or yieldcos as they are often known, are almost universally trading at discounts to NAV at present due to a macroeconomic environment that is now host to elevated central bank base rates which have led to a reallocation away from real assets and towards safe havens like gilts. 

In the episode, Driver gives us his view on recent conditions as well as a way forward for his fund, with questions lingering over whether there will be a return to so-called normality any time soon. 

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NPM Europe editor Peter Kneller welcomes Rosalind Smith-Maxwell, a Director at Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners onto the pod to discuss the UK planning environment, grid delays and how to solve them.

She also reviews the challenges facing the battery storage market and factors to bear in mind as the industry turns its attention to CfD Allocation Round 7 in 2025.  

Ms. Smith-Maxwell will also be a speaker appearing on the Capital Markets Outlook for Renewables panel discussion at NPM’s upcoming UK Development & Finance Forum on Wednesday, 27 November in London.


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