Energy Corp Dev exit ops

I consider myself to be extremely fortunate as I've managed to land a corporate development gig at a multinational energy company straight out of university, never having gained investment banking or strategy consulting experience prior to starting. I genuinely can't believe my luck at times, however, I'd like to know how my career could develop from here even though I'm still relatively new in the job. Due to my position being quite unusual, it seems that that searching WSO isn't really yielded any results for me. As such, I was hoping that some of you more experience monkeys could help enlighten me.

The vast majority of my job revolves around project finance modelling. I also have some exposure to strategy and M&A. I work in a very small team and have excellent superiors who really take the time to mentor me, so as you can imagine, I'm involved with a lot of high level stuff as well as  the nitty gritty details. Editing and reediting the fonts on power point slides plays no part in my job... Literally everything I'm doing seems to have value to it and is a learning experience, whether its something basic like expanding the models and chasing round #refs so they actually work, or something more pivotal like speaking to F500 C-level executives about partnership opportunities. So, now that you have some understanding of what I'm up to, my questions are as follows...

Obviously I'm part of the project sponsor team rather than the banking team financing the developments, but how similar is "project finance" from the other side of the table in terms of career development? Would infrastructure PE firms be happy enough to consider PF experience when it comes from industry rather than from a bank? Might they even prefer it? Is what is written about PF on WSO applicable to me?

How attractive would I likely be to a bank's energy PF team a few years down the line? Would making this move be advantageous in any way, or would it be a step backwards?

Would I be completely out of the running for infrastructure PE jobs that require M&A experience? Obviously the deal flow in industry is tiny compared to the M&A division of a bank, but I would have significantly more involvement in acquisitions than your average analyst at a bank given the size of my department.

Any thoughts on how this job might position me for business school? Would the top schools take an interest?

Is there any other advice that you more experienced moneys can offer me that will help me? I really do love my job and have no intentions of changing it any time soon, but I want to know what options might be open to me and how to position myself for them, so all answers are greatly appreciated.

Thanks.