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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On this week’s podcast, we sat down with Giles Hanglin, CEO of the UK-based energy and data centre developer Apatura to discuss its impressive development pipeline and the case for building data centres in Scotland.

Hanglin discusses the role of government policy — including Scotland’s designation as an AI growth zone — as well as the ongoing challenges around grid access and regulatory reform.

Despite broader market constraints, Hanglin remains confident in Scotland’s competitiveness relative to other UK and Irish markets. He points to ‘serious interest’ from a US-based data centre operator, backed by a major private equity firm, in Apatura’s six-site portfolio, for which Alantra worked as investment banking advisor.

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On this week's episode, Pure Data Centres Group CEO Dame Dawn Childs DBE joins Madeline Sherratt to discuss her entrance into the data centre landscape following an exciting career spanning the Royal Air Force to engineering at London Gatwick Airport, the National Grid, and now Pure.

The conversation includes a discussion on Pure's developments in FLAP-D markets, new opportunities following disruptive data centre moratoriums and the need for developers to become “power generation people” by interweaving renewables into their plans, as well as ongoing cost and regulatory constraints across Europe.

Childs also discusses the race against the Middle East as a frontrunner, and how fraught EU regulation allows developers there to “steal a bit of a march”. She also addresses the need for clarity on what “Sovereign AI” means and suggests that developers are on tenterhooks about the next UK Government location announcement for another AI Growth Zone.

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On this week's episode, TOBE Energy CEO Colby DeWeese joins host Andrew Burnes to discuss his new Oklahoma-based company and the ways it is differentiating itself from other green hydrogen providers through its unique electrolysis system.

DeWeese also discusses why the company is focused exclusively on green hydrogen, use cases for its technology, and what he hopes to accomplish in 2026 along with a wider discussion about the state of hydrogen development in the US amid a backdrop of pulled funding at the federal level.

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On this week's episode, esVolta CEO Randy Mann joins Andrew Burnes to discuss some of the issues facing a well-established storage IPP in the 2025 market landscape.

The conversation includes a look into the realities of FEOC and the status of domestic and alternative supply, including alternate chemistries, as well as a look at how storage values are holding in ERCOT as new storage capacity enters the market.

Randy also discusses the logistics and risk of entering newer markets and gets specific on which ones the firm will be targeting in the next couple of years.

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Laura Pagliarulo, CEO and co-founder of SolaREIT, joins the podcast this week to discuss the rise of powered land banks to support data centers and other forms of load demand.

Later in the program, she also discusses the forecast for US battery energy storage and what growth might look like with FEOC restrictions being implemented in January 2026.

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Alight chairman and co-founder Harald Överholm joins NPM Europe on this week’s episode to give us his take on building a Nordic solar developer into an increasingly pan-European operator of both behind-the-meter and utility-scale, grid-connected PV assets.

Harald also provides insight on how data centres could power the corporate PPA market across the Nordics for years to come, how Alight is targeting microgrids for future opportunities, as well as tips for solving the grid connection impasse present in several European markets right now.

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On this podcast, veteran energy advisor Rob Sternthal, managing partner of Expedition Infrastructure Partners and Peter Kaufman, president and head of restructuring and distressed M&A for the Gordian Group, discuss their newly formed strategic partnership.

The strategic partnership is aimed at helping renewable energy developers and owners deal with ongoing financial challenges in the sector and review what will be the likely outcomes for these developers.

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