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The real-world benefits of projects like #EPP’s MESH can enable economic growth, energy security and easing of financial pressure on energy consumers both household and industrial.

With a gas storage license award by the @NSTAuthority and with @Ed_Miliband deeming the project as “Nationally Significant” in 2025, MESH is advancing rapidly through FEED, toward FID… however the market is valuing the project as a run of the mill oil and gas play, when, in fact, national grade infrastructure projects like MESH accrue value on a very different timeline. The question is when will AIM retail buyers enter the frame… before or after institutional investors arrive?

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Let’s deal with the elephant in the room with #EPP: Funding and Timescale

Imagine this: A UK small cap company with an energy storage project in a safe jurisdiction, deemed “Nationally Significant” by the Secretary of State, awarded a vital gas storage license by the NSTA, partnered with Siemens Energy, Wood and Costain and signing port deals with the Association of British Ports. They’re set to build the largest energy storage project in the UK and the largest CAES project in the world at a time of critical demand, they’ve just released figures (corroborated by Siemens Energy) projecting a NPV8 of over a billion pounds for a modest proportion of their revenue streams and last week they met with government bodies at Number 10, DESNZ and the Department of Business and Trade (as well as global financial institutions/banks)… In spite of this, they’re valued at a mere £21m market cap… Why?

Well, there are 2 primary reasons and I’ll address them separately in the coming paragraphs.

First is funding. MESH requires several hundred million pounds to build out the project and despite stating it has offers of private sector finance in place and doesn’t need government money, in the last webinar it was hinted that they are a likely candidate for funding via GB Energy and/or the National Wealth Fund.

What seems to be spooking investors is the risk of a capital raise. So, let’s just put that to bed once and for all. At a sub £25m mcap there is no way in hell that an AIM retail cash raise will deliver even 1% of the CAPEX needed to build MESH, so in terms of funding, with regulatory approvals now in place, think global financial institutions, banks and government investment. This is not a project that will be calling on the illiquid AIM retail market for cash from here on.

Also, with reference to funding, the current £15m finance package will almost certainly become obsolete once strategic funding is announced. In my opinion, based on the funding/drawdown RNS, liquid cash reserves were required to advance initial work programs to satisfy the NSTA in order to obtain license approvals. Once project level finance is announced goodbye £15m facility.

https://energypathways.uk/activity-updates/PmYGMP-energypathways-investor-presentation-may-2026

Hydrogen/Ammonia: This is a harder market to asses as an emerging sector. So based on the initial projected feedstock of 20,000 tonnes of hydrogen, let’s value it when it’s used to create Clean Ammonia as that market is very real.

Ammonia production of 110,000 tonnes pa is projected. The last domestic UK ammonia producer closed in 2023 and as of 2027 there’ll be a border levy on imports so this will affect chemical & farming Industries. Annual revenues for ammonia, based on volatile pricing revenues could be between £55-100m pa.

Risks:

Planning: Key regulatory hurdles now overcome with the gas storage license award and designation as a project of national significance… the section 35 has been massively under appreciated by the market and what was initially seen as a regulatory bump in the road on the way to license approvals is in fact a huge positive as the DCO process substantially streamlines the planning process from here on.

Politics: In terms of political risk the offering is diverse enough to be valuable to any government from Labour to Reform so it is in effect apolitical. (Is Reform going to turn down homegrown North Sea gas, domestic graphite for defence and Ammonia for Jeremy Clarkson and the farming community?)

Funding: Firstly, let’s put to bed concerns of the risk of a retail cash raise. The project needs £100’s of millions to build out MESH and that’s not coming from AIM retail: FACT. Short term the £15m funding is in place to satisfy the initial NSTA criteria (my opinion is this will be sidelined once project level funding arrives). As for strategic funding, this has already been stated it will come from global private sector institutions and potentially from GB Energy and National Wealth Fund, both of which have stated a clear mandate to invest in LDES and energy storage.

MESH has a suite of revenue streams offering diversification through products and industries at a time where they’ll be the only domestic producer of graphite and ammonia, they’ll effectively be doubling the UK energy storage capacity at a time of critical need and demand. And it requires little or no government funding (however GB Energy or National Wealth Fund may invest as mentioned in the webinar)

Therefore, in my opinion MESH will change the UK energy landscape and the lives of a lot of investors.

https://energypathways.uk/activity-updates/PmYGMP-energypathways-investor-presentation-may-2026

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