Every projecthas a day italmost died.
Stories about the toughest moments in energy project development, and how people got through them. Told by the developers, landmen, lawyers and lenders who were in the room.
Eight gates.
Any one can stop you.
A Notice to Proceed is what you get when everything else finally lines up. Each step before it is a place where good projects get stuck. These are the places we go looking for stories.
Site control
Leases, options and easements locked in.
Title gapsInterconnect
A spot in the queue and a study you can live with.
Upgrade costsPermits
Local, state and federal sign-off.
MoratoriumsOfftake
Someone signs up to buy the power.
RepricingFinancing
Debt and tax equity commit.
Partners walkNotice to Proceed
The owner tells the builder to go.
Build
Steel in the ground.
COD
Commercial operation. Power flows.
Now in production
Working titles for the stories we're recording first. Real projects, real people, and the moment it all could have ended.
Episode titles are working titles and may change before release.
Three beats.
No fluff.
About 30 minutes. One project, told start to finish by the person who lived it. You leave with something you can use on Monday.
The project
What it was supposed to be. The site, the size, the people, the plan.
The wall
The call nobody wanted. What broke, how bad it got, and how close it came to dying.
The restart
How the team got it moving again, and what they'd do differently next time.
You saved a project. Tell us how.
Every developer has one. The deal that should have died and didn't. We want that story.
- Remote recording, about 45 minutes
- Names and numbers can stay off the record
- No prep beyond remembering the bad day
Be there when it drops
One email when the first episode goes live. No newsletter you didn't ask for.
Notice to Proceed: The trailer
Two minutes on why we're making this show, and a first listen to the stories in season one.
Working titles. Final episodes may change before release.
Where projects stall
Six kinds of trouble that stop projects short of NTP. Every episode lives in at least one.
About NTP
A podcast about projects that almost died, and the people who got them moving again.
The go signal
In energy development, a Notice to Proceed is the formal letter that tells the builder to start work. It only goes out once site control, permits, interconnection and financing are all in place.
Getting there can take years. Most projects that start the race never reach it. The ones that do almost always have a story about the day it nearly fell apart.
That's this show. Each episode is about the distance between almost and go.
Notice to Proceed
You are hereby authorized and directed to proceed with the work described in the Agreement, beginning on the effective date above.
Nobody posts the near-misses
Ribbon cuttings get press releases. The title defect found the week before close doesn't. But that's where the real lessons are. NTP puts them on the record so the next team doesn't have to learn them the hard way.
The project
Where it was, what it was, who was on the team.
The wall
The moment it almost ended, in the guest's own words.
The restart
The fix, the cost, and the lesson worth keeping.
TerraPro Solutions
NTP comes from the team at TerraPro Solutions, a land, title and due diligence consultancy for power and energy projects across the US and Canada.
Our work lives in the stretch before NTP. We see projects stall every week, and we see smart people get them unstuck. This show is our way of sharing those stories.
Pitch your story
The project that should have died and didn't. We want to hear about it.
A real wall. A real way through.
- A specific moment when the project could have ended
- You were there, or close enough to tell it
- Something you learned that others can use
- Any technology: solar, wind, storage, transmission, load
Off the record is fine. We can change names, places and numbers. The lesson is what matters.
Pitch
Fill out the form. A few sentences is plenty.
Quick call
15 minutes to find the heart of the story.
Record
Remote, about 45 minutes. We handle the rest.
Release
Your episode goes live, and we send you clips to share.
Apple Podcasts
● Coming soonSpotify
● Coming soonYouTube
● Coming soonRSS
● Coming soonGet notified
One email the day episode one goes live.
Reach the people who get projects built
Sponsorships and co-produced episodes are open for season one. Tell us a bit about your company through the pitch form and pick "Something else."