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Independent Engineers Conclude Useful Life of Solar Project Finance Professionals 35, Not 40, Years

This one guy, Cory - he’s 38 and has been in solar since he was 26 - he came in one morning - unshaven, in a wrinkled shirt, reeking of vodka, already on the phone with his divorce attorney - and without missing a beat started tearing into an engineer for the tiniest of errors in a PVSyst report. Then he disappeared into the men’s room where through the door I listened to him sob in a bathroom stall for about 15 minutes.

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Project Finance Pro Breaks Record, Says "DRO" 16 Times In One Day Without Knowing What It Means

One of Luciano’s co-workers (who wishes to remain anonymous) told The Sunion that during a team meeting at 9:30, he asked his teammates if anyone had “heard of a situation where the tax investor’s contribution goes through a DRO account.” Afraid of looking stupid, every team member reportedly responded with a simple “no” and then pretended to receive a text message from their spouse.

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Survey of ERCOT Developers Confirms 100% of Projects Have Positive Basis

Wellington Xiang, who lead the survey for “Wood Mac”, says he was only slightly surprised by the results. “On one hand, it might seem surprising - or even mathematically impossible - that literally 100% of the projects under consideration in this market could all have a positive basis, given the mechanism itself is specifically designed to result in net zero basis in the aggregate. But that’s before you hear about how carefully these developers have chosen their sites using proprietary techniques and decades of experience in the market.

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