Experience you can depend upon...
OUR MISSION:
Deploying "Game Changing" capital at the intersection of engineering, finance, commodity risk & policy
Chris Moore — Founder, CM Energy Insight
40 years at the intersection of energy engineering, commodity markets, and institutional capital. From coal and flue gas desulphurisation to BESS, OCGT/CCGT, nuclear SMR, hydrogen, SAF, and waste-to-value — I have developed, traded, financed, and advised on assets across the full energy transition spectrum.
Credentials
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MBA, Warwick Business School (1997) — Major Elective: New Venture Creation
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B.Eng Chemical Engineering
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CEng, MIET
Career foundations - see below
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PowerGen (1987–1997): asset engineering and commercial operations
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Enron Europe (1997–2002): energy commodity trading and structuring
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Subsequent roles spanning asset development, project finance, early-stage VC, and C-suite leadership across renewables, BESS, OCGT/CCGT, hydrogen, and low-carbon heat
What I bring to clients
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Technical depth from engineering through to financial close
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Market credibility from active commodity trading at institutional scale
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Entrepreneurial lens — grounded in formal new venture methodology, tested across 20+ years of advisory and investment
Who I work with
Funds, developers, utilities, traders, startups, portfolio companies, and governments navigating the UK and European energy transition.
1987 - PowerGen
European Thermal Asset Development, M&A.
Chris started his "utility-scale" energy project development with PowerGen plc, focussing on coal conversion, EFW, pyrolysis, flue gas cleanup, and biomass and gas-fired CHP. Early entrant into the post Berlin Wall east German marketplace, M&A of the MIBRAG coal mines and district heating plants....
1997 - Enron
Chris started energy commodity trading and origination at Enron, joining in 1997 and staying to the very end. Whilst at Enron Chris developed large CCGT projects in Italy, UK, Croatia and Hungary, and was establishing Enron's European renewable energy trading platform as ROCs were traded....
2002.. American Electric Power
Establishing the Green Energy Origination and Trading Team
From 2002 to 2003 Chris set up the European green products trading desk at AEP (American Electric Power) with responsibility for some of the industries first long term green contracts and pioneering the use of imported biomass to decarbonise coal power stations...
2004 -2007 Renewable Fuel Supply Ltd
MBO and Founder of Dry Bulks Trader - Sold to EDF Trading
From 2003 to 2007 Chris was MD of Renewable Fuel Supply Limited, a new startup that grew to become the UKs largest importer of biomass fuels for coal fired power stations, with operations in Denmark, Spain, Greece, Scotland, Wales and England. RFSL was sold to EDF Trading in 2007
2007 - MGT Power and MGT Teesside
Worlds Largest Biomass Power Plant - 300MWe
From 2007 to 2012 Chris was the founder and CEO of MGT Power, a development company that pioneered the concept of 300MWe CFBC biomass boilers located at ports and fed by global forestry. MGT Teeside was acquired by Macquarie in 2016 and constructed (£1bn).
2012 - Statkraft
Establishing Dry Bulks Trading
From 2012-2017 Chris headed up Statkrafts biomass trading and origination business, establishing new flows of biomass fuel across Scandinavian and European ports.
2018 Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners
Large ticket pension fund investment
Deployment of pension funds into risk-reduced project finance structures with long dated contractual structures.
2019 - 2026 - CM Energy Insight
Supporting Businesses through Transactions
Chris has been focussed on BESS, waste plastic chemical recycling, gigafactory development, AMR/SMR feasibility studies, gas peakers, power flex trading platforms, electrolysers, smart grids, and new build CCGT.