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How SuperPower players backed a Texas solar farm.

Most solar farms are backed by banks, utilities and big corporate buyers. This one had something else in its corner: SuperPower players.

On this week’s Energy Capital Podcast from Texas Energy and Power, host Joshua Rhodes sat down with Cris Eugster, co-founder and CEO of Ever.green to talk projects, and one of those was SuperPlant #001.

Rhodes admitted gamers aren’t the group he pictures behind a solar farm. Eugster said that’s exactly why our deal stood out to him. In his view, gaming is a part of the energy picture almost nobody looks at closely. When we went to Ever.green, we wanted to tie our members to a project that hadn’t been built yet, not buy credits after the fact. That difference matters to him, because Ever.green’s whole model is about putting long-term commitments in front of new projects instead of tacking them on afterward.

He also explained how difficult it can be to create one long-term contract with the developer, then split the commitments among several buyers. Our part was pooling our member's pass fees into a "buyer" big enough to stand alongside the corporations Ever.green usually works with. Eugster called it complex, but we got it done.