New Project Media (NPM) Interconnections

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...

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 ac...

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 speak...

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 atto...

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. New Project Media (NPM) is a leadi...

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, i...

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 worke...

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...

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...

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 entranc...

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. New Project Media (NPM) is a leading data, intelligence and e...

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 Cor...

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’...

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 inte...

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...

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. New Project Media (NPM) is a leading data, intelligenc...

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 en...

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...

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. New Proj...

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 th...

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 eng...

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 vehi...

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. B...

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 suppo...

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 promot...