generating power 
through 
connections

Led by Andrew Newbery - infrastructure developer and former Managing Partner of Herbert Smith Abu Dhabi - AN67 provides expertise on the delivery of global power and infrastructure assets.

AN67 was founded in 2025 with a mission: to generate power through connections — delivering commercially robust projects in power-related infrastructure whilst addressing shared challenges, including a cleaner, affordable and more secure future for all of us. Andrew brings over three decades of experience, as set out in Andrew’s LinkedIn profile.

Andrew was one of the three individuals who — via Greenage Power — originated the idea for NeuConnect in 2015, and - together with Frontier Power - those individuals led the project through its formative stages. To support the early development work, Greenage Power incorporated NeuConnect Limited in 2016, enabling the project to enter into UK Grid Connection Agreements required for the successful Initial Project Assessment (IPA) application submitted to Ofgem in late 2016.

In early 2018, following the involvement of institutional investors (Meridiam, Allianz and Kansai Electric Power/KPIC), a new project company — NeuConnect Britain Ltd — was established to take the project forward. The co‑founders retained an equity interest and a board seat in this entity through their newly incorporated FI1 Limited. As part of the commercial arrangements agreed at that time, the development activities, applications and related project interests held by NeuConnect Limited were transferred to NeuConnect Britain Ltd, enabling the investor‑backed entity to assume responsibility for the project thereafter.

The idea for NeuConnect emerged as Andrew concluded his Head of Commercial to Thames Water role on the Thames Tideway Tunnel — another landmark project whose innovative delivery model is now also seen as a precedent for financing major clean power generation assets such as new nuclear.

Three Case Studies are included below, including a Case Study tracking Andrew’s leadership at the inception of the offshore windfarm sector at the turn of the millennium; as well as Case Studies on NeuConnect and on a project financing in Armenia.  Andrew has been active in other sectors too including the early petrochemical, fertiliser and LNG projects in Qatar (e.g. QAFAC, QAFCO), various Mining project financings around the world, and also water sector projects.

Other projects are in development and — on a highly selective basis — AN67 will consider advisory mandates across Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Africa. AN67 is, for example, currently advising on power generation and desalination assets in the Gulf.

Power is delivered through the ideas we generate and the connections we build.
 

.... scroll down to find out more about AN67

The Electron Delusion & Resource Realism

Our politicians – seemingly of all hues - have fallen for the Electron Delusion: the belief that a modern economy is merely a collection of lightbulbs and kettles. If they can just tweak the price of a kilowatt-hour or build enough wind turbines, the problem is solved. …at least for populist electoral purposes.

They are missing the physical reality of our modern country.

A wind turbine or a solar panel produces an electron. It cannot produce a hydrocarbon molecule. A wind turbine can light your home, but it cannot forge steel, create advanced polymers, or produce the fertilisers that feed this nation.

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Case Study 1: 
NeuConnect
Origin Story from 2015 to 2022

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Andrew Newbery and I founded and originated the NeuConnect project in 2015 before later involving Meridiam

"Andrew and I founded and originated the NeuConnect project and Andrew took over from me all the early stage development work...", 
Mathew Brett, MD

From origination to King's speech

"Greenage Power was formed by Mathew Brett, Andrew Newbery and Lorne Gifford who are experienced energy and infrastructure developers, to originate and develop the NeuConnect project", 

from NeuConnect press release
 

Minister of State for Energy letter to Andrew Newbery, co-founder of NeuConnect, 19 August 2016

Letter of Support  from  Minister of State for Energy to 

Andrew Newbery, Project Director

 August 2016

NeuConnect's IPA application to Ofgem October 2016 "NeuConnect was initiated by Mathew Brett, Andrew Newbery and Lorne Gifford ..."

"NeuConnect was initiated by Mathew Brett, Andrew Newbery and Lorne Gifford of Greenage Power, with early stage advisory support from Volta Partners...", 
extract from IPA Submission to Ofgem, October 2016

 

Greenage Power - and its affiliates NeuConnect Limited* and FI1 Limited - started the NeuConnect project, including negotiating the Grid Connection agreements (a condition precedent to the IPA submission made in October 2016)

*the original NeuConnect company incorporated by the co-orignators

Greenage Power grid connection for NeuConnect

National Grid, 10 Year Statement, 2017

Bundesnetzagentur, 2021

Tagline

"1.3 Die Vorhabenträgerin 
Das Projekt NeuConnect wird von der NeuConnect Deutschland GmbH, verantwortlich für den deutschen Vorhabenabschnitt, und der NeuConnect Britain Ltd., verantwortlich für die Vorhabenabschnitte in den Niederlanden und Großbritannien, geplant und realisiert. NeuConnect ist ein „stand-alone“ Interkonnektor-Projekt. Hinter dem Projekt steht ein Konsortium erfahrener Infrastrukturfinanzierer und -betreiber. Die beteiligten Firmen Meridiam SAS, Allianz Capital Partners im Auftrag der Allianz Gruppe und Kansai Electric Power stehen aufgrund ihrer Erfahrung und Kompetenz für eine erfolgreiche sowie effiziente Projektdurchführung. Darüber hinaus wird das Projekt von Greenage Power und Frontier Power als Entwickler unterstützt. ",

  Bundesnetzagentur website, March 2021

Successful exit for originators (2022):

  " Tokyo Electric Power Company’s subsidiary TEPCO Power Grid UK has acquired FI1 – a company that holds a minority stake in the NeuConnect project.

   Through the purchase, TEPCO has acquired FI1’s 2% stake in the interconnector project, together with an [...] option of 4.5%.

   Neuconnect's new shareholding is:

  • Meridiam – 53.5%
  • Allianz Capital Partners – 26.2%
  • Kansai Electric Power – 18.3%
  • TEPCO Power Grid UK – 6.5% ...",  

IJGlobal, 26 August 2022

NeuConnect 
Legacy

"...In early 2016, before be had brought in other developer stakeholders, we initiated direct engagement in Germany with the Bundesnetzagentur, Germany’s federal energy regulator. This early bilateral work was crucial: it laid the groundwork for NeuConnect’s cross-border credibility, regulatory alignment..."

Case Study 2:  
Andrew Newbery leading finance negotiations of first greenfield project financed IPP in Armenia

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Andrew Newbery being introduced to Nikol Pashinyan, The Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia

Andrew Newbery in Yerevan being introduced to Nikol Pashinyan, The Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia

Andrew, RENCO and Siemens at the Yerevan negotiation table with the Armenian Prime Minister, 

Press Office of the Government of Armenia, 2020

Andrew Newbery former lawyer at Gowling WLG in Yerevan

Case Study 3: 
Aeolus ... 
Andrew Newbery shaping the origins of 
offshore wind project financing

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Law Society Gazette, 1 March 2002, "...Energy partner Andrew Newbery said..."

'... renewable energy is now 
an imperative...'
Andrew Newbery, then a partner at Norton Rose, quoted in 2002 on his role in shaping 
the future ofoffshore windfarm project finance,
Law Society Gazette, 
1 March 2002

 

Articles 
of interest:

The Times, Letters, 

17 March 2026, Sewage loophole and 'dry-day' spills

"...a fundamental friction exists between planning law and water regulation...",  

Andrew Newbery, The Times, 17 March 2026 

 

 

The Evisceration of CATO: the Premature Death of Competitive Tendering in UK 'Onshore' Transmission Delivery
Andrew Newbery,  Utilities Law Review - Volume 21 - Issue 5
 

COP28: a turn up for nuclear? by Robert Armour, Andrew Newbery and others

February 2024  |  SPOTLIGHT | SECTOR ANALYSIS

Financier Worldwide Magazine

Chapter 3  - 

CHANGES IN UNITED KINGDOM ENERGY POLICY:

Stimulus for Significant Long-Term Growth in the United Kingdom's Offshore Wind Generation,  

ANDREW NEWBERY & JONATHAN EVANS, 

Intersentia, 2004

... Podcasts and Videos:
 

"...I am joined by ... Andrew Newbery, to discuss opportunities in the water sector in the Middle East and North Africa region. Andrew has been heavily involved in major water and utility projects in Saudi, the UAE and elsewhere in MENA since the 1990s and he has been based in the region for a number of years..., including water projects, in the MENA region. Since joining Gowling WLG in 2016, he and the firm have consistently been ranked Tier 1 by legal publications in the water sector..."  Imran Mufti, Partner, Gowling WLG

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