New Project Media (NPM) Interconnections

Downing's Head of Energy and Infrastructure, Tom Williams, is the guest this week as the conversation turns to how he - as a renewables-focused fund manager - is thinking about the market landscape for investing in clean energy generation assets across the UK. In a wide-ranging discussion, Tom tells NPM's Jon McNair how he navigates the current regulatory, policy, and macroeconomic conditions, as well as what institutional investors need to know about investing in the energy transition and how that might change over the coming years as markets grapple with high energy prices and high electricity demand from electrification and data centres.NPM is a leading data, intelligence & events company providing business development-led coverage of the global power, storage & data centre markets for the development, finance, M&A and corporate community.Download our mobile app.

On this week's episode, ibV Energy Partners CEO Chris McKissack joins Andrew Burnes to discuss his plan for a gradual shift from a build and sell model to an IPP model. The conversation includes a discussion about what factors play into the decision to retain or sell a project and how to develop projects for different offtakers, primarily between data center customers and utility customers. It also includes a discussion of ongoing project hurdles including data center pushback and the potential for M&A activity to increase in the coming months as developers seek to get safe harbored projects across the finish line before the final tax credit cliff.NPM is a leading data, intelligence & events company providing business development-led coverage of the global power, storage & data centre markets for the development, finance, M&A and corporate community.Download our mobile app.

Hy Martin, Chief Development Officer of energy IPP DESRI joins the podcast today to discuss the evolution of the company’s platform from developer to developer-owner and also more recently as a preferred equity provider to other projects.Later in the program, Martin discusses how the rising costs of developing projects might impact on the way IPPs grow and how consolidation might be inevitable down the road as a result.NPM is a leading data, intelligence & events company providing business development-led coverage of the global power, storage & data centre markets for the development, finance, M&A and corporate community.Download our mobile app.

On this week's episode, two partners at Troutman Pepper Locke, William Derasmo and Vaughn Morrison join Andrew Burnes to talk about the ongoing dynamics related to the storage landscape in the US. William and Vaughn go back and forth on where headwinds meet tailwinds, the potential for M&A in a capital strained environment, the role data centers are playing storage penetration, and whether the industry is peaking now or still has room to grow.NPM is a leading data, intelligence & events company providing business development-led coverage of the global power, storage & data centre markets for the development, finance, M&A and corporate community.Download our mobile app.

In this episode, Crux CEO Alfred Johnson and newly appointed Head of Industry Coverage and Advisory James Wright speak with Heerea Rikhraj to review Crux’s 2026 Midyear Report and the future of clean energy finance. The discussion examines the rise of preferred equity and hybrid tax equity structures, evolving FEOC regulations, and the growing role of private credit in infrastructure financing. Johnson and Wright also explore how surging demand from AI, data centers, battery storage, and electrification is driving unprecedented investment across the energy sector, positioning clean energy markets for continued expansion despite ongoing policy and regulatory uncertainty.NPM is a leading data, intelligence & events company providing business development-led coverage of the global power, storage & data centre markets for the development, finance, M&A and corporate community.Download our mobile app.

In this episode, Kyle Younker sits down with Hans Royal, founder of RP Energy and creator of the Compute Heat Rate (CHR), a new metric that measures the economic value AI data centers derive from electricity. Royal explains why AI workloads can justify power prices far above today's wholesale markets, how that changes assumptions about demand response and grid planning, and why not all data center loads are created equal. The conversation explores the growing role of data centers in electricity markets, the emergence of the Compute Heat Rate Dispatch metric, and how AI's willingness to pay for power could reshape investment in generation, flexibility programs, renewables, and grid modernization.NPM is a leading data, intelligence & events company providing business development-led coverage of the global power, storage & data centre markets for the development, finance, M&A and corporate community.Download our mobile app.

On this week’s episode, we sit down Dominic Ward, CEO of Verne, an Ardian-backed UK-headquartered data centre developer specialising in colocation designs and infrastructure for intensive compute workloads.Verne most recently revealed that the company was in talks with lenders for a capital raise to support the delivery of its 250 MW data centre development plans, with a view to bring the capacity online by 2030.In this episode, we explore how Verne is scaling its platform across Europe, securing the power and capital needed to support that growth, and navigating the rapidly changing data centre market.NPM is a leading data, intelligence & events company providing business development-led coverage of the global power, storage & data centre markets for the development, finance, M&A and corporate community.Download our mobile app.

Sven Hodges and John Tormey, partners in the law firm of Mayer Brown join the NPM podcast this week to discuss the obstacles and solutions to re-igniting the nuclear industry, as well as highlighting some of the developments in advanced nuclear technologies.NPM is a leading data, intelligence & events company providing business development-led coverage of the global power, storage & data centre markets for the development, finance, M&A and corporate community.Download our mobile app.

Black & Veatch’s Rafael Frias III, Managing Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa, joins the show this week to share his experiences of navigating grid bottlenecks, energy storage integration, data centre power demand and addressing ageing network infrastructure, all from an engineering standpoint.Rafa, who in 2025 moved to the UK after a long stint in the US, also discusses with NPM’s Jon McNair the key differences between the countries’ energy markets and what lessons might be learned from one country to another. NPM is a leading data, intelligence & events company providing business development-led coverage of the global power, storage & data centre markets for the development, finance, M&A and corporate community.Download our mobile app.

Michael Albrecht, managing director of GCM Grosvenor, joins the podcast today to discuss ongoing trends in infrastructure fund investing today, with a focus on the obstacles and solutions in today’s environment.Later in the program, Albrecht discusses state of play in digital infrastructure investing.NPM is a leading data, intelligence & events company providing business development-led coverage of the global power, storage & data centre markets for the development, finance, M&A and corporate community.Download our mobile app.