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Navigating the UK Energy Transition
So You Don't Have To

Energy has always been the prize. Whoever masters the intersection of capital, commodity risk, technology, and geopolitics commands the terms on which energy assets are financed, built, and operated. That is the work.

 

CM Energy Insight applies 40 years of practitioner-level energy expertise — engineering, commodity trading, project finance, and policy — to the moments in the energy transition where getting it right at the system level determines whether a project reaches FID or fails

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Battery Storage

The UK BESS Boom: Are You Positioned?

 With 800 GW in the connection queue and NESO's Gate 2 offers now landing, developers face hard decisions on timing, viability, and re-application.

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Grid Connections

Grid Queue Reform: What Gate 2 Means for Your Project

The UK's grid-scale battery pipeline is scaling to 23–27 GW by 2030. Duration is extending, revenues are stacking, and financial sophistication is rising fast.

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Data Centres

50 GW of Datacentre Demand Just Joined the Queue

 AI Growth Zones, a 6 GW government target, demand queue reform, and a new Connections Accelerator are redrawing the UK's power demand map. What does this mean for energy investors?

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UK SMR Programme

Advanced Nuclear Framework - DESNZ, GBN, and What Comes Next

CM Energy Insight analyses the implications for energy investment, site selection, and co-location.

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UK Flexibility Markets

The Roadmap to

66 GW by 2030

 CM Energy Insight unpacks the Clean Flexibility Roadmap and what it means for investors. power demand map. What does this mean for energy investors?

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Clean Power 2030

Clean Power 2030:

The Action Plan Unpacked

95% clean generation by 2030 is government policy. AR7 auctions, flexibility roadmaps, and non-commodity cost pressures all flow from this single target.

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​Why CM Energy Insight?

Why Work With Us?

 CM Energy Insight is not a 500-person consultancy. It is one senior practitioner — Chris Moore — with nearly 40 years at the intersection of energy engineering, commodity trading, infrastructure finance, and policy. Energy transitions are won or lost at exactly these intersections: where technical realities meet capital structures and geopolitical commodity risk. Larger firms silo that knowledge across departments. Here, it arrives in a single conversation. And, of course, we retain a network of people we reply upon.

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  • Cross-Domain Fluency — Engineering, trading, finance and policy in a single conversation

  • Senior From Day One — Chris leads every engagement personally

  • Todays Knowledge — commentary on market developments as they happen

  • Flexible Engagement — Retained advisory, interim management, NED, or project-specific scope

Services

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Asset Development

From strategic assessment,  planning, procurement, and commodity agreements to FID-ready investment case.

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Commodity Trading & De-risking

PPA structuring, route-to-market strategy, and hedging frameworks. In a market where geopolitical shifts reprice commodity risk overnight, long-dated agreements are strategic assets, not just financial instruments

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Infrastructure Finance

Navigating family offices, private equity, banks, MLAs, and insurance to build robust and competitive capital structures.

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Interim & NED

Hands-on interim management or board-level non-executive oversight during critical project phases.

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Let's Start a Conversation

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Whether you need a sounding board on a live deal, an interim project lead, or a fresh perspective on market strategy — the first conversation is always free and always confidential.

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Phone: +44 7884 231 261

Email: chris@cmenergyinsight.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/chrismoore0908/

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