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The NPM Interconnections Podcast features in-depth interviews with top renewable and data center industry insiders across the development, finance, M&A, and corporate community.
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Kyle Hayes, a partner at Foley & Lardner and vice chair of their energy transition practice, joins the podcast to update the status of the green hydrogen industry in the US. Hayes reviews the bigger winners of the hydrogen hub opportunity being administered by the Department of Energy and also the impact of the final ruling by the Internal Revenue Service on hourly matching as a qualification for the section 45V production tax credit. NPM is a leading data, intelligence & events compa...
Andrew Redinger, managing director and head of KeyBanc Capital Markets’ utilities, power and renewable group, joins the podcast this week to discuss how clean energy project development will be impacted by broader macro concerns about a slowdown in M&A and other capital markets activities. Later in the program, he addresses US supply chain costs and, if certain tax credits sunset, how this might impact US solar, wind and storage project development moving forward. You can next see Mr. Red...
On this week's episode, host Andrew Burnes is joined by Robert Piconi, Co-Founder and CEO of battery storage company Energy Vault. Robert dives into the different technologies the company is offering to buyers and offtakers, ranging from 1–4-hour lithium-ion applications to multi-day microgrids utilizing green hydrogen, as well as the company's move from hardware manufacturer to developer and owner/operator. Robert also discusses the areas he expects to be the next frontiers for e...
Jonathan Maxwell, the founding partner and CEO of energy transition investor Sustainable Development Capital LLP (SDCL), joins NPM on this episode to give us his view on financing infrastructure in the energy efficiency space in various countries across the world. Top of the agenda are ideas about how to supply increasingly large data centres with clean, non-intermittent power when demand for grid access has never been higher, as well as the ongoing reforms – and what else also needs im...
Chris Ortega, Head of Americas at Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners joins the podcast this week to discuss his views on investing in the data center space, the convergence of power and data centers, and his views on renewable energy investing coming off the asset manager’s recent investment in Torch Clean Energy. NPM is a leading data, intelligence & events company providing business development led coverage of the US & European renewable energy & data center markets for the ...
Nicole Hughes, executive director of Renewable Northwest, talks with NPM’s Jillian Ward about the recent Bonneville Power Administration layoffs and what this means for the Pacific Northwest grid. Hughes has over 20 years of experience in the renewable energy industry including work in project development, construction, finance, permitting, and policy for utility-scale wind and solar. Previously, she worked at AWS Truepower, HDR, RES Americas, and the Bonneville Power Administration. She also...
Tom Williams, partner at investment manager Downing, joins us on this episode of the podcast to relay his experiences from managing the listed Downing Renewables & Infrastructure Trust since its London IPO in late 2020. Hear Tom's take on the turbulent market forces that have been at work during this period, as well as the strategy that underpins the fund, his love of hydro assets, and what the macroeconomic outlook is for listed infrastructure vehicles. NPM is a leading data, intelligenc...
Ike Emehelu, a partner in the projects and energy transition group, at the law firm of Akin, joins the NPM Podcast this week to discuss M&A trends in 2025, how ongoing budget reconciliation could impact Inflation Reduction Act tax credits and lastly, the impact that private credit might have on the sector. Ike is also scheduled to moderate the capital markets roundtable discussion at NPM’s US Development and Financing Forum 2025 on April 29th in New York City, where he’ll be joined by Dor...
Eyal Podhorzer, CEO of developer and IPP Econergy, joins the NPM Podcast this week to give us his experiences of growing and delivering a pipeline of solar, BESS and wind projects across several disparate markets across Europe. We start with an in-depth look in the fast-evolving conditions in Romania, before moving on to compare and contrast the issues and progress being made in grid connections, permitting, revenue structuring and financing in the UK, Italy, Poland, and elsewhere. NPM is a l...
Primergy Solar’s CEO Ty Daul joins the NPM Podcast this week to discuss the independent power producer’s upcoming pipeline and how evolving federal policy under the new presidential administration might impact clean energy pipeline development and the supply chain. Later, Daul discusses forecasted M&A trends in the space. Daul will be on the Capital Markets Roundtable at NPM’s US Development & Financing Forum being held on April 29th at the Convene in midtown NYC alongside Ike Emehelu...
NPM Europe welcomes BW ESS chief executive Erik Strømsø onto the pod to discuss current battery storage trends in markets including the UK, Germany, Sweden & Italy, how to deal with supply chain bottlenecks and grid delays, and the relative merits of tolling arrangements. NPM is a leading data, intelligence & events company providing business development led market research across the European and US renewable energy and data center markets. Download our mobile app.
On this week's episode, Andrew Burnes is joined by OCI Energy President Sabah Bayatli to discuss the firm's ongoing efforts to transition its portfolio away from exclusively solar to a mix of solar and storage. Bayatli also discusses his interest in other technologies like long duration storage and small modular nuclear, OCI's transition to retain some of its projects for long-term ownership, and the transition of the ERCOT storage market from being dominated by merchant projects to contracte...
Goksenin Ozturkeri, the chief investment officer of Relevate Power, joins the podcast this week to discuss the growing role of hydropower in the energy transition. Relevate Power had a big year in 2024, having completed an equity raise with Greenbacker Capital Management’s Green Development Opportunities Fund I over the summer. Then, with financial backing from Apollo, the company acquired Gravity Renewables in December. The deal added 40 MW of high-quality assets to Relevate Power’s portfoli...
Tonja Wicks, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs for Elevate Renewables, joins the NPM Podcast to discuss her active role in PJM’s reform on Capacity Interconnection Right (CIR) Transfers, how we got here, and what’s next for solving the gap in new and retiring assets. Later in the program, she talks about her passion for energy policy, bringing renewables to overlooked communities, and her expectations for the incoming second act of the Trump administration. New Project Media (NPM) i...
On this week's episode, Andrew Burnes is joined by Alex Delworth, Policy Associate at the Center for Rural Affairs. Alex and his organization have recently put together some resources for local officials in counties and municipalities in Midwestern states like Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota that are experiencing proposals from renewable project developers but have yet to put their own ordinances on the books to guide these projects. NPM has covered all of these growing...
Ben Catt, CEO of Pine Gate Renewables, joins the podcast to chat with Kaitlin Gebby about the company’s new nonprofit arm that emerged out of Hurricane Helene and how it underscored the renewable industry’s role in climate change. Later in the show, Catt also discusses key deals Pine Gate has announced in late 2024 and the political hurdles that lay ahead under a new Trump administration. New Project Media (NPM) is a leading data, intelligence, and events company providing business developme...
On this week's episode of NPM Interconnections, host Andrew Burnes is joined by Doral Renewables’ CEO and Co-Founder Nick Cohen, VP of Development Jon Baker and VP of Development and Agrivoltaics, Ed Baptista. All three guests have been directly involved in the development of two of the largest projects in the Midwest - Indiana's 1.3 GW Mammoth Solar and Wisconsin's 1.3 GW Vista Sands Solar. The trio discuss the permitting and siting challenges related to developing projects at GW scale and a...
NPM US reporter Skyler Frazer speaks with Todd Fryatt, CEO and founder of ECA Solar, a solar and battery storage project developer with operations across the US. Todd discusses the practice of safe harboring solar projects and what companies across the solar industry are doing ahead of the Trump Administration taking over in January. Todd also talks about strategies he and his industry peers can use to best prepare for any potential legislative or regulatory shakeups in the coming month...
NPM Europe’s Jon McNair speaks with JP Cerda, the CEO and co-founder of Renewabl, which is a start-up that aims to help companies better procure and manage their clean energy supplies, while aiming to avoid greenwashing. Across a wide-ranging discussion, JP gives us his perspectives on the renewable electricity purchasing market, the role of PPAs and other similar products, the expected demand growth from AI, the move towards 24/7 renewable supply for offtakers, what governments are and could...
Allan T. Marks, a partner with Milbank and a member of the firm’s Global Project Energy and Infrastructure Finance Group and senior fellow at Columbia University in the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, joins Jon Berke on the podcast to discuss the impacts that the incoming Trump administration will have on clean energy policy. More broadly, Marks discusses how the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Loans Program Office (LPO) under the Department of Energy will be impacted. The tw...
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