Harmony Energy Development Director Frances Nicholson joins NPM to share experiences on project development in the UK over what has proved to be a highly active and pivotal recent period for the renewables sector in the country. 

Developers are routinely dealing with organised opposition to proposals, patchy political support, consent refusals and appeals, all while navigating through an at-times unpredictable and delayed connections reform process being undertaken to rationalise the grid queue across the country. Frances gives her take on all of these points and more. 

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Jeff Monday, Fluence's Chief Growth Officer, joins the NPM podcast this week to discuss lessons learned from his prior career in technology, with stints at Apple and Qualcomm, and how this influences Fluence's growth trajectory as it builds batteries serving both the grid and the rising tide of data centers.

Later in the program, Jeff discusses how behind-the-meter technology has become a more reliable segment it pertains to power supporting data centers.

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On this week's episode Power Factors VP of Innovation Abilash Krishnan joins Andrew Burnes to discuss some of the challenges developers are facing when it comes to managing their growing portfolios of varying technologies, the continued growth of battery storage, and how that is fitting into the data center demand that we're seeing today.

Krishnan also provides some information about Power Factors software and how they aid developers as they grapple with these issues.

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On this episode, Palladium Energy’s Chief Commercial Officer Nobel Chang discusses the developer’s strategy at sustaining renewable project growth amid AI-driven power demand.

He reviews the company’s disciplined approach to development while navigating the shifting environment of rising power prices, fading tax credits, and evolving financing requirements.

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On this week’s episode, we speak with Peter Pohlschroeder, head of the data centre division at German private bank HAL and vice chairman of the German Datacentre Association.

Pohlschroeder explores Germany’s zoning and planning landscape, heat-reuse incentives under the Energy Efficiency Act, and the role of German data centres in the wider European market. He also discusses rising construction costs, longer delivery timelines, and why hyperscaler growth has fallen short of expectations.

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Izzet Bensusan, CEO and founder, of Captona, a late-stage investor in utility-scale renewable energy and clean fuels projects, joins the podcast this week to discuss market conditions for its business model, his take on the continued growth of merchant storage in ERCOT and how renewable natural gas, as an industry, is evolving.

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This week, Taaleri Energia managing director Kai Rintala joins NPM Europe editor Peter Kneller on the podcast to discuss the benefits of geographical diversification, the legwork that goes into securing PPAs, and the positive long-term outlook for European power demand.

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Marc Pangburn, Chief Revenue and Strategy Officer for clean energy financier HASI, joins the podcast this week to discuss the impact of data center growth on the utility-scale solar and storage market, forecasts for how the distributed generation industry will play out in 2026 and also any immediate impacts felt by FEOC in the sector.

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On this week’s episode, Charlie Faulkner, CEO of EdgeMode, a global energy and AI data centre infrastructure company joins Ulan Harrison-Davies to discuss the recently announced 2 GW+ partnership with Blackberry AIF to develop sites in Spain and Panama.

Faulkner also reviews the agreement with SUB1 to develop energy-efficient data centres in Europe, with initial projects planned in Sweden and Spain.

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In this episode, Perkins Coie Partner Jane Rueger and Associate Attorney Jacob Neeley join Kaitlin Fallowfield to discuss a 14-page preview recently released by PJM Interconnection detailing its plans for the new rules for data centers seeking to bring their own generation to the grid.

The grid operator has been trying to come up with a framework to manage data center load and create more accurate forecasting measures. In December 2025, FERC ordered PJM to write its rules for co-location to include three key services, which include both firm and non-firm capacity contracts, and interim network service contracts.

The 14-page plan marked a preview of what PJM’s future FERC filing will include, teasing the idea of a separate, albeit limited, expedited queue for large load additions.

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