The interviews quite clearly suggest that the industry is not only an outlier, but truly one of a kind. Lola Castanova from BNY Mellon summarizes the situation well: “I’d say of the solar transaction flow-of-funds we quarterback here, about 12% of them go off without a hitch. This compares to our global all-industry benchmark of about 99.3%. We’ve never seen anything like it…and that benchmark includes industries such as ticket-scalping, puppetry, and Cutco Knives.”

In a synthetic discovery broadly compared to the work of Galloway and Leach, NREL investigators tracing energy and capital flows between renewable energy systems, those systems’ project finance assumptions via primary-contracted-offtakers, the primary clients of those offtakers, and, in turn, the primary consumers of those offtakers, have discovered a previously uncharacterized, enclosed, and self-sustaining sunlight-to electricity-to-money-to bros-to-data-to-grift/crypto-to-porn-to-bros-to money-to light-to-electricity ecosystem that is nearly self sustaining without external reference or input and which may soon overtake photosynthesis and geotechnical processes in terms of overall magnitude of energy transfer in Earth’s biosphere.

Bookrunners cited the company’s “unmatched operational track record” and “strong pipeline of early-stage projects”, while acknowledging that a public markets IPO did close off many attractive opportunities for near-term wholesale value destruction by WoodMac.

“It’s the worst thing I’ve ever heard of in my entire life. That is, unless we can write the law in such a way that it’s breathtakingly arcane, convoluted, and rife with subjective interpretation of vague concepts….in which case I’d be totally stoked to the max. Oh, it is? Great. Wow. That’s so exciting for me. And here I thought the jig was up. [chuckling] [shaking head]. What a time to be alive.”