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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

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

Gigawatt Scale Battery Storage (BESS) development and M&A Advice. LDES and Battery Storage Built for Bankability For BESS developers, owners and investors positioning for the 30GW-by-2030 market. The UK's grid-scale battery pipeline is scaling to 30GW by 2030. Duration is extending, revenues are stacking, and financial sophistication is rising fast. Contact CMEI What We Do: Revenue-stack modelling across wholesale, BM, Capacity Market and ancillary Gate 2 connection positioning and viability review Gate 2 Supporting Documentation - SSEP, CSNP, RESP and RNP Procurement, EPC and technology selection (incl. LFP vs sodium-ion risk) Capital raise and investment structuring to FID 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

Email us, Call us, or arrange a meeting. The initial triage is always free. Address Pearmain House, The Orchard, Westergate Street Westergate, Chichester PO20 3RH Email chris@cmenergyinsight.com Phone +44 7884 231 261 Social Media First Name Last Name Email Message Send Thanks for submitting! We will reply as soon as possible. First conversation is free and confidential What happens next: You send a two-line outline of the challenge Ask for a 30-minute call with Chris We will reply with a short written view on your options Replies within one working day.

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

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

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

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

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Ongoing Manadates for Datacentre, embedded BTM generation, BESS, Grid Connections 2026 Projects This project portfolio thesis: energy transition is multidimensional. Capital deployed across vectors—storage, flexible generation, clean fuels, and nuclear—builds the most resilient position against systemic and geopolitical risk Datacentre | Fuel Cell | OCGT | Gas Engines | TSO Connection UK Entrant (Confidential) CMEI lead the Site Assessment, Lease negotiation, Grid Connection, Permitting, Equipment Procurement, and capital raise process SMR - Small Modular Reactors DP World Pre-FEED / Feasibility Study / LCOE modelling, Advanced Nuclear Framework alignment, grid connection study, OEM assessment, EN7 alignment, and funding market warm testing for 300+ MWe SMR project. Battery Energy Storage System - BESS InterGen Supporting a large industrial real estate owner operator to develop, permit, procure and optimise a fleet of 500MWe 2 hour BESS projects UK Gas Flexibility Peaking Business Wall St Investor Support to investment fund considering acquisition and growth of a gas peaker flexibility business with future international expansion. Green Hydrogen to Ammonia Steel Decarbonisation M&A Due Diligence and Ongoing Development for a 600MWe hydroelectric to ammonia project in West Africa. SAF Feedstock Development Castor beans, croton, cotton, soybean, sunflower, camelina, sesame and jatropha to BioDiesel Overview of the process of designing and funding a large reforestation project to deliver inedible vegetable oils for subsequent hydrogenation together with voluntary carbon credits. Comparison with known "waste to liquids" processes including Velocys, Fulcrum and other Fischer-Tropsch (FT) pathways. Waste Plastics Chemical Recycling PhiGenesis CM Energy Insight has advised and supported: Phigenesis -plastics chemical recycling Sustainable Aviation Fuel €500m+ capital raise via Alexa Capital port-located facilities for biofuels & biomass feedstocks development of international feedstock supply solutions. EfW / RdF Trading In the 1990s Chris was part of the Cory PowerGen JV that developed the UK's largest EfW plant (now Riverside), and the Kemsley Waste Paper EfW plant (a large FBC). More recently CMEI has advised clients on the identification of greenfield development sites for EfW projects. Feedstock counterparties have included Geminor, Transwaste, N+P, Andusia and Renewi Gigafactory, EV Charging Infrastucture, and Storage Development CM Energy Insight supports market entrants during the rapid cross-geographic growth of their business: Regulatory framework at a Eu and UK level Site identification & acquisition Project development (permitting, regulatory approval, FEED study) Project procurement & project finance Teaming & project management / collaboration Fund Raising Investment in SRF Supply Chains Afforestation project investment consisting of Eucalyptus, Poplar, Southern Yellow Pine, and Leylandii for pension backed investment fund wanting long term returns and access to the voluntary carbon credit market.