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SB Energy has secured a combined $2.4 billion aimed at supporting communities with domestically produced renewable energy. 

Working with J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley Renewables and Truist Bank, SB Energy closed approximately $800 million in tax equity. Working with MUFG, Mizuho Americas, ING, SMBC, CIBC, Fifth Third Bank and Société Générale, the company raised $450 million in term debt and $1.2 billion in construction debt to support a 1.3 GW portfolio of four utility-scale solar projects.

Three of the projects are also the first utility-scale projects in the U.S. to reach financial close with the Inflation Reduction Act’s “domestic content adder,” says the company.

To qualify for the domestic content adder, SB Energy is utilizing 1.1 million solar modules manufactured in Ohio by First Solar. Additionally, Nextracker is supplying trackers with recently expanded component providers in multiple U.S. states. All structural steel on these same projects will use domestically sourced steel from Texas and Georgia.

“The IRA’s domestic content and energy community incentives were designed to expand America’s manufacturing base and create good-paying jobs in communities that need them,” says SB Energy co-CEO Rich Hossfeld. “We are thrilled to be the first company to reach financial close on projects that utilize these adders with our partners J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley Renewables and Truist Bank.”

“By partnering with leading tax equity investors and lenders on these latest financings, we are extending our track record of deploying renewable generation at scale,” adds SB Energy’s Gianluca Signorelli. “Moreover, by utilizing the IRA’s domestic content and energy community adders, we have created a blueprint for deploying clean infrastructure that advances America’s prosperity and wellbeing.”

Google is purchasing approximately 75% of the energy produced by these four projects to power its Texas data center presence.

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One’s Purpose in Life

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The drawing here reminds me of a conversation I had with my mother in the early days of 2GreenEnergy when she saw that my focus had become an ongoing effort to improve the wellbeing of all the planet’s inhabitants–now and into the future.

She asked me, “Why don’t you just live your life?”

I explained, “This is my life.”

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Deporting Illegals — a Bit of Irony and Hypocrisy

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Members of a small (pop. 200), rural, and very conservative town in Montana are not happy that ICE has rounded up and deported “Roberto,” a local businessman who came here illegally, “worked his butt off,” and over the years became “a neighbor, a member of our community.” Short video linked above.

“How can there not be a way to make him legal?” a citizen asks.

Sadly, this is what being a conservative is all about in today’s America, i.e., you think abuse is fine, until it impacts your own life.

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Why Trump Needs to Be Held Accountable

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I agree with Joseph T. Stegall at left, but the main reason Trump needs to face justice is for the good of the country–and the entire world.

If Trump dies a “controversial figure” rather than a vicious criminal, the United States will never recover from the drubbing it’s taken on the world stage and the incredible amount of harm that’s been inflicted on the American people.

Moreover, failure to prosecute Trump would set the stage for the next sociopath to come along and take us down every further. Keep in mind that the next guy is probably not going to be as incompetent as Trump.

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