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• UK data centres in practice: permitting, delivery and decarbonisation with Amberside Advisors 11.06.2026 33分

  Lorcan McAlindon, associate director at Amberside Advisors, on the complex regulatory and financing frameworks UK data centre developers have to navigate and the increasingly innovative solutions that are being implemented to meet the modern ESG standards while reconciling with grid congestion issues. McAlindon also touches on the lessons UK developer can from from their European counterpart and the measures they can adopt to streamline permitting. Hosted by: Maya Chavvakula Edited by:...
• Poland’s grid reset, Stegra’s €1.4bn lifeline & infra funds under pressure 17.04.2026 35分

  In this week’s episode of Energy Transition Today, we cover key developments across Europe’s energy and infrastructure markets. We start in Poland with the newly passed UC84 reform, which aims to unblock grid connection queues but is already dividing opinion between local developers and international investors. We then turn to Sweden, where Stegra has secured €1.4 billion in fresh financing, offering a lifeline to its flagship green steel project, but raising broader questions about the banka...
• Decarbonising Central & Eastern Europe: deep dive on Poland and Romania 13.03.2026 33分

  This week on Energy Transition Today, we're focusing on news and analysis from Poland and Romania ahead of our Decarbonising Central & Eastern Europe event in Warsaw on 19 March. We open with Poland's UC84 grid connection reform, the most significant regulatory intervention in the sector in years, and what its mandatory milestones, digitalisation requirements and new financial framework mean for developers and investors navigating the market. We then cover PGE's EPC contracts for a 1.2GW ...
• The future of the energy transition with Enfinity Global 17.02.2026 47分

  Today’s podcast is the fourth in our four part series in partnership with Enfinity Global. Enfinity is one of Europe’s leading IPPs and the winner of inspiratia’s 2025 Developer of the Year and Financial Structure of the Year awards. In our series together, we explore the challenges, opportunities, and key decisions that European developers are faced with today and take a deep dive into understanding Enfinity’s approach to navigating - and shaping - the continent’s energy future. In th...
• Germany halts offshore wind tenders, Ørsted’s €1.44bn divestment, UK SMR ownership framework 06.02.2026 35分

  This week on Energy Transition Today, we examine Germany’s decision to pause its offshore wind tenders following the country’s first failed auction, and what the move signals for developer appetite across Europe’s offshore sector. We also cover Ørsted’s long-awaited divestment of its European onshore portfolio, TenneT Germany’s partial sale to KfW to unlock critical grid investment, and fresh hydrogen offtake developments linking Germany to Saudi Arabia’s green ammonia projects. Elsewhere, we...
• Unlocking capital for the energy transition with Enfinity Global 03.02.2026 39分

  Today’s podcast is the third in our four part series in partnership with Enfinity Global. Enfinity is one of Europe’s leading IPPs and the winner of inspiratia’s 2025 Developer of the Year and Financial Structure of the Year awards. In our series together, we explore the challenges, opportunities, and key decisions that European developers are faced with today and take a deep dive into understanding Enfinity’s approach to navigating - and shaping - the continent’s energy future. In thi...
• France capacity market reform, North Sea Summit outcomes, Central and Eastern Europe BESS deal flow 30.01.2026 28分

  This week on Energy Transition Today, we unpack the rapid shift in the French battery storage market as it moves from a merchant niche to core energy infrastructure, driven by larger projects, longer durations and a coming overhaul of the capacity mechanism. We also cover outcomes from the North Sea Summit, including plans for multipurpose interconnectors and a 300GW regional offshore wind target, alongside UK transmission cost challenges, fresh onshore and BESS deal flow in Poland, Germany a...
• UK's AR7 fallout, Germany's gas win, Poland's bet on merchant onshore wind 23.01.2026 30分

  In this episode of Energy Transition Today, Leonard and Maja start with the fallout from the UK’s AR7 offshore wind auction, looking at record awarded volumes alongside cancelled projects and growing strain on the development pipeline. They then turn to Poland, where RP Global is progressing a highly leveraged, largely merchant onshore wind project, highlighting rising lender confidence in Central and Eastern Europe. The focus moves to the Netherlands and its decision to introduce...
• UK leads the offshore wind charge with AR7, Poland to join established renewables markets club 16.01.2026 34分

  In this week's episode of Energy Transition Today, we begin with all things offshore wind. From the stumbles of last year to the record success of UK's AR7 tender and what that mean for offshore wind targets for 2026. On to news, we breakdown financing for a host of technologies including solar, onshore wind and data centres. 00:00:58 | 2025 offshore wind auction failures 00:10:11 | 2026 offshore wind outlook and UK AR7 results 00:27:47 | Financing and M&A news across Europe Hosts: Maya C...
• Unlocking the battery storage opportunity with Enfinity Global 13.01.2026 39分

  Today’s podcast is the second in our four part series in proud partnership with Enfinity Global. Enfinity is one of Europe’s leading IPPs and the winner of inspiratia’s 2025 Developer of the Year and Financial Structure of the Year awards. In our series together, we explore the challenges, opportunities, and key decisions that European developers are faced with today and take a deep dive into understanding Enfinity’s approach to navigating - and shaping - the continent’s energy future. ...
• US chooses Venezuelan oil over domestic wind, Poland’s offshore and gas push, UK’s M&A run 09.01.2026 30分

  For the first Energy Transition Today episode of the year, we summarise the goings on over the past few weeks, starting with the US military intervention in Venezuela. The Trump administration’s intervention in Venezuela accompanied by a soft pledge to exploit the country’s oil resources has cast doubts over US’ energy transition targets. This move, barely two days into the new year, follows additional restrictions on 6GW of offshore wind capacity that is currently under construction. On this...
• EBRD's Ahmad El Mokadem on making battery storage bankable in Central and Eastern Europe 19.12.2025 27分

  In this episode Leonard speaks with Ahmad El Mokadem from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development about how energy storage is becoming bankable in Central and Eastern Europe. Both explores how the EBRD has shifted from post communist market building to scaling renewables, grids and battery storage, and why confidence, regulation and revenue certainty now matter more than technology. Ahmed shares insights on storage financing, private capital mobilisation, energy security after th...
• Commercialising clean energy with Enfinity Global 16.12.2025 42分

  Today’s podcast is the first in our four-part series in proud partnership with Enfinity Global. Enfinity is one of Europe’s leading IPPs and the winner of inspiratia’s 2025 Developer of the Year and Financial Structure of the Year awards. In our series together, we explore the challenges, opportunities, and key decisions that European developers are faced with today and take a deep dive into understanding Enfinity’s approach to navigating - and shaping - the continent’s energy future. ...
• 2025 in review: nuclear's return, wartime wind, and Polish progress 12.12.2025 41分

  This end of year episode of Energy Transition Today dives into our energy transition highlights of 2025. Maya, Dan, and Leonard explore nuclear’s renewed momentum, the extraordinary progress of Ukraine’s Tyligulska wind farm built during active conflict, and the rapid rise of Poland and the wider CEE region as emerging hubs for renewables and battery storage. They look at offshore wind setbacks in the United States, the cooling of Europe’s hydrogen ambitions, and the strategic reset underway ...
• FIVE-E’s Valentina Mercati on how private equity can accelerate the energy transition 05.12.2025 31分

  This episode features Valentina Mercati, the chief executive of FIVE-E Italy, who shares how private equity is reshaping early stage renewable development in one of Europes most complex markets. We explore how private equity accelerates solar, storage and biomethane projects, why permitting and grid issues continue to slow delivery in Italy, and how investors are navigating new rules, rising deadlines and shifting incentive schemes. Valentina also sets out where she sees the strongest opportu...
• COP's Michele Schiavone on why Italy is primed to lead floating offshore wind commercialisation 28.11.2025 38分

  In this episode, COP’s Michele Schiavone breaks down why Italy is primed for floating offshore wind and what it will take for the country to turn a vast early stage pipeline into real projects. The conversation explores the state of Italian offshore wind policy, the delay in national auctions, the progress of landmark projects such as Seven Seas Med, and the wider potential of floating wind across the Mediterranean. We look at the routes to market that investors need, the supply c...
• Germany’s power plan pivot, the EU’s e-SAF push and the quiet force of export credit agencies 21.11.2025 44分

  This week the team digs into Germany’s new power plant plan, the fast changing battery storage landscape, and what the latest grid data reveals about the scale of developer interest. We also break down the EU’s push to jump start sustainable aviation fuels and explore what is still missing to unlock real demand. In offshore wind we look at Poland’s first auction, GB Energy’s debut investment, and the final Celtic Sea award. The episode closes with an interview on the growing role of export cr...
• R.Power Renewables’s Jakub Fedorowicz on why Poland’s battery storage market is ready for take-off 14.11.2025 28分

  In this episode, host Maya sits down with Jakub Fedorowicz, Head of M&A at R.Power Renewables, to explore why Poland’s battery storage market is ready for take-off. Recorded at the Energy Storage Summit – Europe in Munich, the conversation delves into R.Power’s evolution from a solar developer to a multi-technology IPP, the country’s shifting regulatory landscape, grid access challenges and the growing investor appetite for storage. Produced and edited by Leonard Müller. Interested in tic...
• Estonia’s storage breakthrough, Hornsea’s mega deal & the Dutch auction flop 07.11.2025 26分

  In this week’s episode of Energy Transition Today, we talk about a first-of-its-kind financing for battery storage in Estonia, a clear sign of lenders’ confidence in storage-only revenues. In the UK, Ørsted’s 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 project gets a $6.5 billion boost from Apollo Infrastructure Funds, one of the largest equity investments ever made in renewable energy, reviving optimism in offshore wind. Poland’s PGE prepares its 896 MW Baltica 1 project for the country’s upcoming offshore wind auctio...
• Ikigai’s Roberto Castiglioni on how storage will power Italy’s 2030 energy goals 31.10.2025 37分

  In this episode, Leonard speaks with Roberto Castiglioni, co-founder and CEO of Ikigai Group, about how Italy’s storage market is evolving in the wake of the MACSE auction results. They discuss Ikigai’s 2.3GW battery partnership with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, the country’s goal to deploy up to 15GW of storage by 2030, and how long-duration and non-lithium technologies could transform Europe’s grid flexibility. The conversation also delves into optimisation, co-location, and repoweri...