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The End of Clean Line Energy Partners

7/18/2018

14 Comments

 
Something just seemed "off" about Clean Line's response to the Missouri Supreme Court decision yesterday.  Where was everyone?  Took an awfully long time to respond, but that might be because Michael Skelly no longer has a company phone.  Or a desk.  Or a computer.

And then there's this.  Why is David Berry writing and signing legal documents on behalf of Clean Line Energy Partners?  What happened to Clean Line's counsel of record in Tennessee?  Where's Cary Kottler, or the other "B" team lawyers from Clean Line?

Where is everybody?

I guess they went out with the non-transmission assets.  What "non-transmission assets" does Clean Line own anyhow?  The wind farm got sold to Pattern a while ago.  I guess that leaves a whole bunch of ugly orange furniture, phones, computers, maybe a Staples Easy Button or two.

This says that Clean Line Energy Partners sold all its non-transmission assets to a company named ConnectGen LLC.
A Locke Lord team led by Mitch Tiras (Houston) represented a management team at ConnectGen, LLC in the acquisition of all the non-transmission assets of Clean Line Energy Partners, LLC, which received a commitment of $100 million from Quantum Energy Partners Fund VII and will develop renewable energy projects across North America. Additional assistance was provided by Sara Longtain and Rachel Fitzgerald (both of Houston).
It's not dated, and it's very poorly written.  But I think it happened quite recently because ConnectGen seems to be a brand new company (err... companies?) that was just registered in Texas this month, and in Delaware last month.  Four different but related companies:  ConnectGen LLC, ConnectGen Management Holdings, LLC, ConnectGen Management LLC, and ConnectGen Operating, LLC.  Sound familiar?

It should, considering the President of all of these new companies is no other than Jayshree Desai, former COO of Clean Line Energy Partners.  Recent information about Jayshree:
Ms. Desai is the President of ConnectGen LLC, a company focused on the development of wind, solar and storage projects. Prior to joining ConnnectGen LLC, Ms. Desai served as the Chief Operating Officer of Clean Line Energy Partners, LLC a developer of transmission line infrastructure projects that deliver wind energy to communities and cities that lack access to low cost renewable energy resources. Prior to that, Ms. Desai was CFO of Horizon Wind Energy, a developer, owner and operator of wind farms. Prior to that, Ms. Desai was a Director at Enron responsible for Mergers & Acquisitions. Ms. Desai began her career as a business analyst at McKinsey & Company. Ms. Desai currently serves on the Executive Board of KIPP Houston and as the Chairperson of the Board of the Wind Energy Foundation. Ms. Desai holds a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.
Oh, I see.  Prior.  She worked for Clean Line Energy Partners in a prior job.  And when she left, she took everything "non-transmission" with her.

I'm quite sorry that the Locke Lord blurb is so poorly written.  It kind of looks like maybe Clean Line Energy Partners received a commitment of $100 million from Quantum Energy Partners Fund VII and will develop renewable energy projects across North America, but that isn't true.  It's just someone who doesn't know how  to use a period.  It is ConnectGen that received $100M from Quantum and will develop renewable energy projects.  Looks like it will be wind, solar and storage projects, not transmission.  The only thing Clean Line got is relieved of its non-transmission assets for an undisclosed price.

So, Jayshree went out the door (and took the door with her for good measure) and left Skelly gasping in the dirt.  Does ANYONE work at Clean Line Energy Partners any longer?  I don't know how they could, since all the company's non-transmission assets have been sold to Jayshree's new company.  If she's nice, maybe she'll let him come and play "office" a couple days a week, do make believe with his toy transmission tower.

Who were you trying to kid yesterday, Michael Skelly?  With all your grandiose claims and plans to continue the regulatory process for Grain Belt Express.  It looks like Clean Line Energy Partners no longer has a pot to piss in, nor a window to throw it out of.

Would you please just go away now?  The cat is out of the bag.  We all know.

14 Comments
May Berry link
7/18/2018 07:12:36 pm

Jayshree’s fan club has a new set of projects to keep an eye on.

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Something Like a Transmission Line
7/18/2018 07:25:36 pm

OHHHH
NOOOOOOOOOO!
I hope Jay-sha-reek didn't get the toy transmission tower. Is that a transmission, or a non-transmission asset?

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Christie's
7/18/2018 09:15:51 pm

Don't forget about the really cool art deco sculpture of the wind turbine they were going to show all those college kids in MO. I bet that thing is worth a pretty penny. *laughs hysterically*

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Dr. Freud
7/19/2018 04:46:28 am

We must let the patient continue to turn the crank of his toy wind turbine. The motion of the crank mimics a past rhythmic hand motion that reminds him of his glory days when he was spending large amounts of investor cash on worthless things like turbine sculptures.

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Bea link
7/19/2018 07:29:18 am

What?? Jayshreeks’s “new” company only has 4 LLCs? She’s really slipping.

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Opie Taylor
7/19/2018 01:37:40 pm

I told you she was the real mastermind behind the company. The rest of the business team were just egos masquerading as businessmen.

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Ernest T. Bass
7/19/2018 01:47:34 pm

What do you say when it's over
Or do you say anything at all
One day you're rollin in the clover
The next you know you take the fall...

OH I bet the stories in the office of the last days and Skelly's absorption into his firehouse project while the business burns is epic.
Jayshree and the Madmen of CLEP

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Wide Eyed in Wonder
7/19/2018 06:58:37 pm

I'd like to hear those stories! Who wants to spill?

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Scott Thorsen
7/19/2018 02:18:40 pm

I bet she sees herself as the only sane person on a sinking ship. Frankly, I'm surprised they didn't fire her and throw her overboard for being the only one that took the job seriously well being surrounded by a bunch of jokers and clowns.

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Barney link
7/19/2018 05:58:28 pm

Whadayawannabet that it’s just more smoke and mirrors, and time will bear out that the Horizon/CLEPTO/“wearen’twind clowns are just reorganizing under new LLCs.

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Thelma Lou
7/19/2018 06:59:59 pm

They can try, but who would give them money?

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Otis Campbell
7/19/2018 07:46:44 pm

Sometimes in a drunken haze I wonder if this was all a money laundering scam. Who really spends what... $175(?) millions on lawyer and administrative expenses with nothing to show for it?

Did anyone at National Grid lose their job for this bonehead investment?

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Shelly Winters From Beyond the Grave
7/20/2018 02:33:55 pm

Indeed not. We just write it off as a loss on our taxes and you peons pay for it.

Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha

Too bad there's no line to write off FAILURE on Mr. Skelly's taxes.

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Herpes
7/20/2018 02:35:14 pm

My cousin, FAILURE, is also permanent.

What a shame!

What a shame!

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