Congrats. To the team at Orka for being acquired by Sunstone Credit. Lending is hard, C&I is harder, combine the two and you have a challenge ahead of you. Glad to see that come together for a team that deserves it and opportunity to keep growing this.
Rate Hikes And Volatility. This headline screams for community solar and solar tariffs for low income homes as a way to lower the price of energy for those spending the largest portion of their income on energy costs and to keep the future volatility away from them. Credit markets are inherently tough to maneuver based on today’s market so regulators and policymakers have to make a concerted effort to want to create a market here.
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The Polar Vortex Test. Over the next week the weather may not align with grid forecasts. Yesterday’s storm matched with ice conditions knocked out power to over 500k consumers across the east and another vortex is coming from the Canadian border. In the southeast we’ve had an unseasonably windy winter. ERCOT is looking at the weather forecast and has a rather tight operating window a week from today and that’s assuming everything works as it’s supposed to which we should all hope for.
Profits Sit With Risks. Herein lies the answer to the NYT’s opinion piece. Comparing renewables to oil or gas is flawed in its analysis with regard to profits. Solar and wind have a capital structure that centers around certainty with little room for volatility, i.e. no fuel costs and predictable operating expenses with a contract for revenue. Most power plants operate differently, producing energy on a dispatch or traded basis with much shorter contracts that allow room for upside. Fuel costs are inherently volatile when long term hedges don’t exist.
Managing Installer Cash Flow. Interest rates are the highest in 22 years, increasing solar financing costs and softening consumer demand for loan products. Businesses are feeling the pain of strained cash flows, labor costs and profitability pressures. Palmetto, a B2B technology company accelerating the adoption of clean energy, has announced a new partnership offering for solar installers to help stabilize cash flows and grow faster in today’s market. Built on top of Palmetto’s Clean Energy Operating Platform, this is a comprehensive suite of tools and services enabling installers to streamline operations, optimize performance, and increase profitability. Visit https://www.palmetto.com/finance or contact capital@palmetto.com for more.
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Managing Installer Cash Flow. Interest rates are the highest in 22 years, increasing solar financing costs and softening consumer demand for loan products. Businesses are feeling the pain of strained cash flows, labor costs and profitability pressures. Palmetto, a B2B technology company accelerating the adoption of clean energy, has announced a new partnership offering for solar installers to help stabilize cash flows and grow faster in today’s market. Built on top of Palmetto’s Clean Energy Operating Platform, this is a comprehensive suite of tools and services enabling installers to streamline operations, optimize performance, and increase profitability. Visit https://www.palmetto.com/finance or contact capital@palmetto.com for more.
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The Locational Value. Community solar has the keys to two of the biggest values in solar. First, it removes single offtaker credit risk, whether credit is for default or leverage on renegotiation. For every homeowner or tenant that cancels, there’s a waiting list of additional offtakers ready to take their place. Second, it no longer associates load with immediate location which makes it easier to create a value proposition. Every day, we read about need for housing and more density, but meeting that density requires capacity that has to be met by community solar. Regulators should be tripling down on this market alongside generation aggregation programs.
Come Work With Me. I’m adding a few folks to my team at FlexGen. As you know, we’ve been building out the energy storage ecosystem with our services and the leading EMS platform in batteries. With the growth of the market, our team needs to continue to expand. I’ve had the pleasure of working with some of the best across solar and storage over the past decades and want to continue that trend. Here is the link to apply
Managing Installer Cash Flow. Interest rates are the highest in 22 years, increasing solar financing costs and softening consumer demand for loan products. Businesses are feeling the pain of strained cash flows, labor costs and profitability pressures. Palmetto, a B2B technology company accelerating the adoption of clean energy, has announced a new partnership offering for solar installers to help stabilize cash flows and grow faster in today’s market. Built on top of Palmetto’s Clean Energy Operating Platform, this is a comprehensive suite of tools and services enabling installers to streamline operations, optimize performance, and increase profitability. Visit https://www.palmetto.com/finance or contact capital@palmetto.com for more.
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