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Opinion: Struggling To Get Your PV Project To Pencil? Put An Electrolyzer On It!
Ok, so lets say you have a solar project under development which looks like a dog for whatever reason. This happens to me a lot because I’m completely undeterred by concepts like “valuation” or “fundamental value” when acquiring an asset. Maybe the electricity market in the area got really soft…maybe when you were acquiring the project you applied perfect-flat-rectanglular-site-with-no-constraints-and-clean-geotech EPC cost assumptions to your hilly-Rorschach-test-shaped-site-crisscrossed-with-ACOE-jurisdiction-streams situation. Hey, we all do it. Gotta keep that money moving, know what I mean? So do you pull the plug? Cut your losses? Put your tail between your legs and write one off? MY WHITE ASS! Some people say “but Ollie - don’t throw good money after bad, both the EPC and PF teams are saying there’s no angle here. mew mew mew.” Oh yeah? Someone bring me that EPC estimate….I want to wipe my ass with it. They don’t tell me what pencils…I tell them.
WATCH LIVE: Regulators At NARUC Winter Conference Erupt as Charles Peterson Throws It to Warren G and Nate Dogg
QBotix Robot Watches From Rusting Shed As Lithe New Boston Dynamics Quadruped Frolics In The Sun With Smiling O&M Tech
Hickory Knoll IE Production Estimate Update: Looks Like We Gotta Real Fuckin’ Richard Perez Ph. Fuckin’ D. Over Here
PJM Interconnection Queue Admins ‘Bout to Drop the Mother of All Out of Office Messages
Wow, Turbo Non-lawyer Really Leaning Into Opportunity To Play Lawyer On This NDA
Democrats Drafting “Build Back Okay-ish” Bill With An Eye On Delaying Dystopia By 3, Maybe 4 Years
SEIA, ACPA Issue Gentle Nudge To Congress To Hurry The Fuck Up, Jesus Christ, For Fuck’s Sake Give That Parish-Pump Cockbag From WV His Pound Of Flesh And Lets Fucking Move On. Fuck.
NREL’s JEDI Economic Impact Model: Understanding the Role of “Direct,” “Indirect, “Induced,” “Indirectly-Induced,” “Decompensatory,” “Speculative,” and “Derisory” Employment
O&M Provider Taken Aback By Project Owner’s Persistent Attempts to Wedge “Address Any Lingering Scent Of Rotting Corpses” Into Scope
Nation A Bit Surprised To See Tom Brady Accept ‘Fleet Operations Analyst’ Position At Forefront Power; “They Have Great 401k Matching,” Explains Brady
Order Of Ops That Took 200 Hours To Design Scrapped After First Obstacle
These Cryptocurrency Entrepeneurs are Graduating to Balloon Animals: “It was time to grow up and make an impact”
Insights: By Combining Locally-Sited PV With Vertical Indoor Farming, Vegetation Management Sheep and Forestry Offsets You Ca…Wait. Hold Up; Shit - I Think We Just Invented Farms, But Wrong
Jigar Shah Spotted At Warriors Game Firing “DOE Title XVII Loan Program” T-Shirts Into Crowd
Solar Developer’s Presence At County Meeting Assures Anti-Mask Protestor They Won’t Be Most Despised Attendee
IE Rolling Up on this Production Estimate Like He’s Fuckin’ Larry Fuckin’ Kazmerski
“Sure…Or We Could Just Put Them On, Like, Normal Racking, Maybe?” Says Cowardly Engineer Way-Too-Focused On Things Like An Electrical Power Plant Not Being Submersed In Water
The Sunion Investigates: Do Towns Reject Zoning Applications Because They Hate Your Project? Or Because They Hate You And Your Stupid Face?
“Innovative Carport Racking Solution” Just Modules Bungeed To Roofs Of Cars
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