Man Clandestinely Glances Over Both Shoulders, Shifts To Whisper Before Disclosing Top-Secret, ‘Proprietary’ Plan To Repower Unprofitable Old Thermal Plants With PV+BESS (FULL DETAILS)

CHICAGO, IL - Sunion Exclusive - A recent clean energy market entrant with a peripherally relevant background in [banking] [thermal] [power trading] [private equity] furtively checked his radius of earshot to ensure it was safe to share an obviously-extremely-valuable, Earth-saving plan - to acquire unprofitable old coal, oil, gas generators and repurpose the interconnection and land as some sort of new energy facility - with a member of The Sunion’s investigative journalism team.

Apparently unaware that i) this has been happening for years, ii) is currently being pursued by around 387 different under-funded family-office-backed startups that will be gone in 3 years, iii) already weaved into the strategies of every semi-respectable IPP in the nation, and iv) extremely difficult even for those highly capable organizations, the man insisted his plan was “novel” and sure to accelerate the energy transition.

The soon-to-be-hero/savior-of-all-mankind bobbed and weaved through ruthlessly probing questions such as “what’s your ash pond strategy?” or a “will you take the ARO risk yourself?”, assuring The Sunion that the startup is backed by very rich and important white men who could surely circumvent any barriers to progress, such as half a dozen long-standing federal and state environmental regulations that even oil multinationals adhere too. “If you knew where my money is coming from and how much pull that family has, you’d realize it’ll be easy for us to figure it out on the fly,” said that visionary founder.

The Sunion later cornered Mr. Moneybags himself, who said “Look, I’ll let this picture do the talking…” before producing an AI generated “Before & After” style image of their super secret “Alpha Target” coal plant - which was very obviously a publicly available image of the Four Corners Generating Station - on the “Before” side, with a famous picture of the Alamosa Solar (2008) project representing the “After” side. “OK? Right? Now do you get it?”