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Sub-developer With “Commercial Operation Achieved” Milestone Payment in MIPA With Pinegate Pretty Sure That’s Solid
Solar Industry Striving To Support AI Sector Reaching Point Where AI Turned On Itself So AI -> Trains Better AI -> Trains AGI -> Creates Super-intelligence… Because Nothing Matters Anymore
"But We Really WANT This Data Center And This Power Cost Is High!" Whines AI Guy Like A 7-Year-Old, Before Being Laughed Out of Room While Threatening To Buy A Gas Turbine for 27’ Delivery
“Modern Energy Nostradamus” Goes Full Send On Solar-to-Crypto, Whiplashes To H2 For A Sec Before Briefly Settling On “Merchant IPP”, Scraps That To Chase Data Center Froth; Now Developing Gas Plants
New Safe Harbour Tax Opinion Costs $2,000 More Than Safe Harbor Tax Opinion
Project Seller Asking For Extra Half Cent Three Rounds Past "Shortlist BAFO Submission"
Opinions From the Street - Repowering
“It's easy: just get consent from 5-6 different parties, then acquire the operating project from a company that looks like a chump once they sell it to you, get NERC qualification, repair all the inverters, procure 100 MW of modules at a good price for near term delivery, refinance the debt, then renegotiate a PPA with a regulated utility, apply for a supplemental interconnection, procure FEOC compliant battery modules, then negotiate an EPC Agreement amidst a severe labor shortage, get a revised CUP, get a new take permit from a federal government agency that’s been ordered by the President not to give you one, secure a capacity contract, hire a QSE, get a legal opinion supporting the 80:20 test, and then sell the tax credit, and Boom....you’re repowered and totally fucking loaded."
New DOE Post Stays Attuned To “The Moment”
“We’re Doing Fine, Thanks”, Lies Woman
Guidehouse Offers "Private 2025 Curves Peep Show" To Highest Bidder at RE+
Man Not So Sure About All that FEOC Stuff, But Certainly Woke Up This Morning Feeling Like That Spearmint Rhino Stripper Tatiana Is A Bit Of A Foreign Entity Of Concern
Project Finance Head Unknowingly Hits Rock Bottom While Hearing Pitch For AI-Based Construction Continuity Product In Back Corner of Expo Hall
Man Stumbling Out of Circus Circus in Midst of Ether Binge Making More Sense Than "Digital Infrastructure Futurist" Explaining Exoflops To Prostitute
RE+ Attendees Definitely Yotta Curious
Renewables Crowd Hopeful That Pervading Sense of Dread, Isolation, Desperation, Futility Will Be Cured After 72 Consecutive Hours Inside the Venetian
VP of Procurement Pretty Sure Her CEO Messaged Her On Silk Road Under User Name, "DTF4Radiators"
New IRS Guidance Adds "ICE Raid" As Acceptable Evidence For Start Of Construction
Increasingly Frayed Jean Shorts And Pile Of Cigarette Butts Deemed Sufficient For Continuous Construction Evidence
Nations 3rd Year Associates Agree to Continue Dropping Half-Baked, Cockamamie Safe Harboring Angles Into Market Until At Least 1 Shop Actually Tries to Use a Block of Concrete to "Start Construction"
New Circle8 Marketplace Efficiently Connects Developers to Appropriate Bribe Recipients in Trump Administration
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