California Turns Energy Readiness Into a Deal-Intake Test
California’s latest energy rules are making utility access and clean-power readiness a prerequisite for closing power-intensive deals.
What is this trend?
California is turning utility access, permitting, and clean-power procurement into a go/no-go test for M&A targets, making energy readiness a prerequisite for dealability.
- Energy diligence now starts at intake, not after exclusivity.
- Utility interconnects and power procurement can determine whether a target is actionable.
- Prefunded clean-energy contracts and CEQA shortcuts raise the bar for site readiness.
- Energy, EPC, and supply-chain specialists are moving closer to origination and pricing.
What’s the latest?
California’s SB 57 advanced 25–9 in the Senate, while the SB 886 and SB 887 framework would fully recover transmission, interconnection, and clean-energy costs, require a 15-year prefunded contract fo
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