Consultant for execution and advice from energy policy, Asset M&A, commodity trading, to infrastructure finance. Power Projects that Reach FID 40 years getting UK data centre, BESS, SMR, grid connection and flexible-power assets de-risked, financed, & built — advised by practitioners who have delivered. Book a free call Services - How we can help you Asset Development We can support your strategic assessment, regulatory alignment, financial model gating, through NSIP / DCO planning, procurement, and commodity agreements to FID-ready investment case. Learn more Commodity Trading & De-risking Supply, fuels, freight, FX, offtake, floors, tolls, PPA structuring, route-to-market strategy, and hedging frameworks. Geopolitics shift commodity risk overnight, and long-dated agreements are strategic assets, not just financial instruments Learn more Fund Raising: Startup through to Infrastructure Finance We have navigated family offices, private equity, banks, MLAs, and insurance to build robust and competitive capital structures. Learn more Interim & NED We do it all: hands-on short term consulting, medium term interim management or board-level non-executive oversight during critical project phases. Learn more Core sectors we serve Battery Storage The UK BESS Boom: Are You Positioned? Duration is extending, revenues are stacking, and financial sophistication is rising fast. With NESO's Gate 2 offers now landing, developers face hard decisions on timing, viability, and re-application. Read More Grid Connections Grid Queue Reform: What Gate 2 Means for Your Project 132-400kV. New GSPs. NESO Gate 2 Compliant connection applications. Datacentres and Generators need local experience at larger scales. Read More Data Centres 315 Projects - 73GW of Datacentre Demand Data Centre Commitment Fees (DCCF), Queue Management Milestones, evidence packs, and more statutory consultation. What does this mean for energy investors? Read More UK SMR Navigating the Advanced Nuclear Framework - Accelerating Delivery CM Energy Insight is the energy expert for a South Coast UK SMR Development Read More UK Flexibility Markets "Keeping the lights on" The Roadmap to 66 GW of Green by 2030 CM Energy Insight unpacks the Clean Flexibility Roadmap and what it means for investors in CCGT, OCGT, LDES, Algorithmic Trading, and fast-start gas peakers. Read More Clean Power 2030 UK Action Plan Unpacked Policy: 95% clean generation by 2030. SSEP, CSNP, RESP, RNP AR7 auctions, flexibility roadmaps, and non-commodity cost pressures all flow from this single target. Read More Why CM Energy Insight? Unique 40 year perspectives from a combination of Asset Development, Energy Commodity trading, and Funding expertise 400kV transmission (TSO) grid connections — delivered, not advised upon 500 MWe BESS project moves from development, to capital raise and construction Active on NESO/ DSIT Connections Accelerator and AI Growth Zone power programme Live data centre CCGT/OCGT/gas engine / TSO connection mandate (2026) Cross-domain: engineering, commodity trading, regulatory alignment and infrastructure finance in a single engagement Get in Touch Latest Thinking: Strategy? Connection? Generation? Siting? Call! If you need a practitioner who has delivered — the first conversation is always free and confidential. Phone: +44 7884 231 261 Email: chris@cmenergyinsight.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/chrismoore0908/ Renewable Energy Project Management Name* Email* Company* Message* Send Message

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40 years in asset development, commodity trading, and infrastructure finance. CHRIS MOORE MBA B.Eng, CEng, MIET. 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 MBA, Warwick Business School (1997) — Major Elective: New Venture Creation B.Eng Chemical Engineering CEng, MIET The Journey 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 European Power Origination - UK, Croatia, Hungary, Italy 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.... 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 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... 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 StratKraft 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. 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 . 2018 Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners Large ticket pension fund investment Deployment of pension funds into risk-reduced project finance structures with long dated contractual structures.

Transaction focussed interim and NED for energy businesses Interim Management and Non-Executive Director Board-level NED support for energy asset developers, investors, and funds during critical project phases. Contact CMEI When to call: leadership gap · stalled project · board-level challenge Sometimes a Project Needs a Decision-Maker, Not Another Report A project may be approaching FID, financing may have stalled, or the board may need independent challenge that an overstretched executive team cannot provide. CM Energy Insight supplies experienced, hands-on leadership through interim executive and independent non-executive director (iNED) appointments. Every engagement draws on 40 years across asset development, commodity trading, infrastructure finance and strategy. Interim Executive Support Interim support provides accountable senior leadership when a business or project needs additional capacity, pace or control. Typical needs include: A sudden leadership stretch or shortage of senior resource or experience in a specific area A critical phase such as fundraising, consent, FID, financial close, procurement or EPC mobilisation A turnaround where delivery, commercial assumptions or relationships have broken down A strategic decision involving market entry, M&A, financing or portfolio priorities Assignments can include Project Director, iCEO, Chief Strategy or Commercial Officer, and multi-asset Programme Director roles across BESS, flexible generation, renewables, and other energy infrastructure. The focus is to understand the commercial and technical reality quickly, check the investors expectations, and establish accountability and make the decisions needed to move forward. Independent NED Support Energy businesses and investors need boards that challenge assumptions rather than simply endorse them. An experienced energy-sector iNED can strengthen: Investment scrutiny — testing financial models, revenue cases, sensitivities and delivery assumptions Policy and regulatory oversight — assessing how market reform, grid connections and government policy affect asset value Governance — holding executives to account for delivery, risk and commercial commitments Stakeholder confidence — bringing credibility to discussions with lenders, investors, offtakers and counterparties CM Energy Insight accepts a limited number of board appointments, only where it can add genuine value and engage properly. These are active roles, not nominal directorships. Who We Support This service is designed for asset developers facing a critical project stage; funds and family offices building UK energy portfolios; corporate boards navigating transformation or M&A; and lenders or investors seeking independent oversight within a project company. Chris Moore leads every assignment personally. There is no hand-off to a junior delivery team. Talk to CM Energy Insight If a leadership gap, stalled process or board-level challenge is putting value at risk, let’s have a direct conversation. The first discussion is free and confidential. 📞 +44 7884 231 261 ✉ chris@cmenergyinsight.com Read our recent blog post Let's Start a Conversation 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. Phone: +44 7884 231 261 Email: chris@cmenergyinsight.com LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/cmenergyinsight Name* Email* Company* Message* Send Message

Experience-based advice on how to successfully triage, design, develop and fund energy infrastructure Supporting your Asset Development Most energy projects fail in development, not construction. We take assets from concept to an FID-ready investment case a lender can read without explanation Contact CMEI The CM Energy Insight Development Pathway - 40 years of experience. Concept scoping, regulatory alignment and market positioning — establishing the commercial and political rationale, technology selection criteria, site and grid strategy, and the realistic development timeline before development capital is budgeted. Grid connection strategy and Gate 2 positioning — analysing transmission line location and queue position, connection offer risk, and the strategic options available to a project under the reformed NESO connection framework. Permitting and planning strategy — development consent sequencing for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and locally determined consents, including environmental impact assessment management and stakeholder engagement. Procurement and EPC strategy — competitive procurement design, contractor risk allocation, insurance design, and contract terms for a market in which equipment supply chains are stretched and cost certainty is harder to achieve than at any point in the last decade. Commodity agreements and offtake structuring — PPA term sheets, route-to-market strategy, capacity market positioning, and flexibility market access — all calibrated to the current state of the market, not a model built three years ago. The FID-ready investment case — a fully integrated project brief, financial model, credible independent market analysis, shareholder agreements, lender facility agreements, risk register, insurance design, that a serious investor, lender, or project finance bank can read without supplementary explanation. Why Boutique Development Advisory Delivers More Large advisory firms build detailed models. CM Energy Insight builds investment cases . The difference is not a matter of scale — it is a matter of accountability. When a senior practitioner leads the engagement from concept to close, the development case is internally consistent, the assumptions are defensible, and the commercial judgements are made by someone with direct and credible market experience — not delegated to an analyst in a workstream. In a market where the cost of a development error — a missed gate 2 offer, a mis-specified PPA, a planning condition that triggers a delay — can destroy project economics, the quality of the development team is not a secondary consideration. It is the primary risk. Let's Start a Conversation 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. Phone: +44 7884 231 261 Email: chris@cmenergyinsight.com LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/cmenergyinsight Name* Email* Company* Message* Send Message Read our recent blog post

Location of utility scale, transmission voltage assets during the Great Grid Upgrade Locate and structure assts for the 2030 market 95% clean generation by 2030 is government policy. AR7 auctions, flexibility roadmaps, grid queues and non-commodity cost pressures all flow from this single target. Clean Power 2030 Contact CMEI For developers and investors building against the 95%-clean target. CfD / AR strategy and bid support RNP and locational-pricing scenario modelling Co-location and revenue-stacking design FID-ready investment case Read our recent blog post Let's Start a Conversation 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. Phone: +44 7884 231 261 Email: chris@cmenergyinsight.com LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/cmenergyinsight Name* Email* Company* Message* Send Message

Design, permitting, procurement and construction of UK transmission sytem connections for data centres and power generators Grid Connections: Accelerating you from Queue Position to Connection Offer With 800 GW in the connection queue and NESO's Gate 2 offers now landing, developers face harddecisions on timing, viability, and re-application. Contact CMEI For developers navigating NESO Gate 2 and the 800GW queue Queue-position and Gate 2 evidencing strategy Connection-offer risk review, 132kV–400kV Developer-built / build-and-transfer connection routes AI Growth Zone fast-track engagement Read our recent blog post Let's Start a Conversation 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. Phone: +44 7884 231 261 Email: chris@cmenergyinsight.com LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/cmenergyinsight Name* Email* Company* Message* Send Message

Advising Investors on the opportunity to invest in flexible power generation assets to capture the value of intermittency Position across the full flexibility stack The UK needs 51–66 GW of clean flexibility by 2030. CM Energy Insight unpacks the Clean Flexibility Roadmap and what it means for investors. UK Flexible Markets Contact CMEI For flexibility investors and developers targeting the 66GW-by-2030 gap. BESS, LDES, DSR and peaker portfolio strategy SOFC and emerging-technology feasibility Capacity Market and ancillary-market access Revenue modelling and route-to-market Proof : 40 years across CCGT, OCGT, gas engines and BESS. Read our recent blog post Let's Start a Conversation 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. Phone: +44 7884 231 261 Email: chris@cmenergyinsight.com LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/cmenergyinsight Name* Email* Company* Message* Send Message

UK data centre solutions inc grid, embedded power generation, CCGT OCGT Gas engines, BESS, and SMR Helping datacentre developers, real estate landlords, hyperscalers, and investors facing a decade-long grid queue Data Centre Power Contact CMEI We advise on : Embedded generation development: Fuel Cells, CCGT, OCGT, gas engines, utility-scale BESSGrid connection strategy and queue positioning — 132kV to 400kV, ICP/IDNO / ITSO OFGEM Demand connection queue reform and Reservation Fees: NESO / OFGEM "Curate, Plan and Connect" AI Growth Zone support / DESNZ Connections Accelerator engagement Behind-the-meter BTM generation: private wire, Grid Code compliance, regulatory structure Self-build pathways (BOOT or BOO) under the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 Corporate PPA structuring and wholesale power market engagement strategy Why CM Energy Insight: Chris Moore holds an active GW scale 400kV TSO connection mandate for a UK data centre developer. He founded IPP's that delivered utility-scale power plants ahead of incumbent utilities, and has 40 years of execution experience across CCGT, OCGT, gas engines, 400kV TSO connections, and 500 MWe BESS. Read our recent blog post First conversation is always free Contact Chris Moore: Phone: +44 7884 231 261 Email: chris@cmenergyinsight.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismoore0908/ Name* Email* Company* Message* Send Message

Route-to-market strategy and hedging frameworks for renewable and flexible energy assets. PPA structuring, option pricing, weather volatility, route-to-market strategy, and hedging frameworks for renewable and flexible assets. Commodity Trading Contact CMEI For renewable and flexible-asset owners, commercial strategy is a core value driver — or, done poorly, a value destroyer. CM Energy Insight provides: senior-level advisory on PPA structuring route-to-market strategy hedging frameworks for renewable and flexible assets. We help developers and funds build commercial structures that survive contact with a volatile reality. The first conversation is always free and confidential. Read our recent blog post Let's Start a Conversation 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. Phone: +44 7884 231 261 Email: chris@cmenergyinsight.com LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/cmenergyinsight Name* Email* Company* Message* Send Message

How to design, permit, procure and construct SMRs with competitive LCOE Site, OEM, Developer, Offtake, LCOE and Advanced Nuclear Framework CM Energy Insight analyses the implications for energy investment, site selection, and co-location. UK SMR Programme Contact CMEI For industrial offtakers, developers and investors with a 2030s SMR horizon: Brownfield site strategy and option-securing Industrial / data-centre co-location offtake structuring Technology-selection and GDA-pathway assessment Investment structuring and Pre-FEED support Proof : Lead energy expert for a South Coast UK SMR development. Read our recent blog post Let's Start a Conversation 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. Phone: +44 7884 231 261 Email: chris@cmenergyinsight.com LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/cmenergyinsight Name* Email* Company* Message* Send Message

Building and modelling robust and market facing financing structures Infrastructure Finance Navigating family offices, private equity, banks, MLAs, and insurance to build robust capital structures. Contact CMEI CM Energy Insight builds robust capital structures designed to survive financial close, construction, and operation. We focus on: Debt sizing and equity raising in high-yield environments Risk allocation and hedging strategies to protect against market volatility Bankable PPA structuring for hyperscale and industrial offtakers Capital structure design across family offices, PE, Banks, MLAs and insurance Securing infrastructure finance in 2026 requires more than a spreadsheet; it requires a strategic read of macroeconomic risk. The first conversation is always free and always confidential. Read our recent blog post Let's Start a Conversation 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. Phone: +44 7884 231 261 Email: chris@cmenergyinsight.com LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/cmenergyinsight Name* Email* Company* Message* Send Message