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Former SpaceX Engineer Interviewing for Utterly Unrelated Position Would Like You to Know They SpaceX’ed at SpaceX SpaceX SpaceX
The Sunion Names Force Majeure 2022’s Person of The Year
Tempe, AZ Club Owners Concerned Their Customers May Never Return After Tuesday Night Scene Ruined By Hordes Of Badge-Wearing Old Solar Dorks Talking Shop While Leering At ASU Coeds
Infocast Attendee Feeling Frisky With Navy Suit, No Tie, Canned Supply Chain Banter Combo
Microsoft Word Hacks: Instantly Double Your Enterprise Value By AutoCorrecting “Leasing” to “As A Service”
“Impact Investor” That Just Wrote Off Failed Pressed-Juice Co. Investment Deems Operating Solar Project With Low-Income-Housing Offtaker “Too Risky”
Renewables Industry Offers Sarcastic Golf Clap To Pandering Guy Condescendingly Lecturing Everyone On Complexity Of Energy Transition Like They Are Sole Voice Of Reason In A Sea Of Impulsive Children
Renewables Industry Pretty Sure Tonight’s State Of Union Address Will Mostly Focus On Direct Pay and Prevailing Wage
“If Only There Were A Way For Us To Rely Less On Russian Gas,” Says Country That Deployed Solar At Scale About A Decade Before Anyone Else Did Shit
Crypto Offtaker Less Confident They Will Be Deemed Creditworthy After Entire Lender DD Meeting Spent Discussing The Dutch Tulip Bubble
Logicians Give Up Trying To Find Flaw In ‘You Use Petrochemicals All The Time, Hypocrite’ = ‘Man-Made Climate Change Is A Hoax’ Argument; “It’s Air-tight”
Russian Invasion Of Ukraine Hits SNAFU As the 10,000 Mobile DC Solar Generators They Paid For In 2018 Oddly Fail To Arrive
Junior KKR Analyst Using Excel “Goalseek” To Figure Out What Merchant Curve Spits Out 4% Levered IRR Thought Saving The World Would Feel A Bit Less Hollow
Infographic: Explaining LA’s Hydrogen Plan
IEA Revised Topline Estimates for Global Solar Resource: Spite, Grit May be Infinitely Renewable
The Sunion To Release New Blockbuster Film “Don’t Look Down: Where Did Those Wetlands Come From? Shit, Someone Get Me Some Sand”, Directed By PT Anderson
Shading Loss From Uninvited Imaging Drones Vying For Business Reaches 6%
Breaking: You are Not Going to Believe Who Just Indicted One of Our Codevelopers
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.
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