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title: "Capital Liberation"
date: 2026-04-20
slug: capital-liberation
summary: "A developer posts cash or a letter of credit as interconnection security. The utility holds it. For three years. Or five. That capital isn't working. The Surety Alternative unlocking the capital frozen behind clean-energy deposits."
questionTitle: "Can a surety bond replace a letter of credit on a solar project?"
tags: [AI, Capital]
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legacyUrl: /blog/f/capital-liberation
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phase: Fund
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*The Surety Alternative — unlocking the capital frozen behind clean-energy deposits.*

Hundreds of millions sit in segregated accounts. Frozen.

A developer posts cash or a letter of credit as interconnection security. The utility holds it. For three years. Or five. Or twenty.

That capital isn't working. It isn't paying interest. It isn't building the next site. It isn't hiring the next engineer. It sits in a segregated account — while the developer's cost of capital runs somewhere north of ten percent.

A surety bond is a different kind of paper.

Same obligation. Same protection for the utility. No frozen capital.

On a $100 million, three-year obligation, cash or an LC could carry roughly $36 million in cost. A surety bond could carry about $6 million. That's $30 million a developer could be deploying to build. Per obligation. What would your team do with $30 million of capital that didn't cost you anything?

A full argument on the math, the three-party trust architecture that makes surety different from cash and LCs, and three AI prompts for surety workflows lives in the new briefing.

Link | The Surety Alternative | Capital Liberation: https://briefing-capital-liberation.lovable.app/

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