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Financial report summary
?Risks
- Our limited operating history at current scale and our nascent industry make evaluating our business and prospects difficult.
- The distributed generation industry is emerging and our distributed generation offerings may not receive widespread market acceptance.
- Pandemics and other public health emergencies, including the emergence of new COVID-19 variants resulting in another pandemic, could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
- The failure of renewable energy hardware costs to continue to decline would have a negative effect on our business and financial condition.
- If the estimates and assumptions we use to determine the size of our total addressable market are inaccurate, our future growth rate may be negatively affected and the potential growth of our business may be limited.
- We currently face and will continue to face significant competition.
- Our future growth will depend on expanding and diversifying our new product and new market opportunities, and if we do not successfully execute on our new product and new market plans, or if our new product and new market opportunities are more limited than we expect, our operating results and future growth prospects could be adversely affected.
- We are subject to supply chain risk and our suppliers may fail to deliver components according to schedules, prices, quality and volumes that are acceptable to us, which could negatively affect our results of operations.
- We also face risks resulting from supplier concentration and limited supplier capacity.
- We have entered into long-term supply agreements that could result in insufficient inventory and negatively affect our results of operations.
- Our hardware and software-enabled services involve a lengthy sales and installation cycle. If we fail to close sales on a regular and timely basis, it could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. Amounts included in our contracted backlog may not result in actual revenue or translate into profits.
- If we are unable to attract and retain key employees and hire qualified management, technical, engineering and sales personnel, our ability to compete and successfully grow our business could be adversely affected.
- We have incurred significant losses in the past and may incur net losses through at least 2024.
- If we are not able to continue to reduce our cost structure in the future, our ability to become profitable may be impaired.
- Any future acquisitions we undertake may disrupt our business, adversely affect operations, dilute our stockholders, and expose us to significant costs and liabilities.
- Our platform performance may not meet our customers’ expectations or needs.
- If any energy storage systems procured from OEM suppliers and provided to our customers contain manufacturing defects, our business and financial results could be adversely affected.
- If our estimates of useful life for our energy storage systems and related hardware and software-enabled services are inaccurate, or if our OEM suppliers do not meet service and performance warranties and guarantees, our business and financial results could be adversely affected.
- Future product recalls could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results.
- We primarily rely on Amazon Web Services to deliver our services to users on our Athena platform, and any disruption of, or interference with, our use of Amazon Web Services could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
- Any failure to offer high-quality technical support services may adversely affect our relationships with our customers and adversely affect our financial results.
- Our business currently depends on the availability of rebates, tax credits and other financial incentives. The reduction, modification, or elimination of government economic incentives could cause our revenue to decline and adversely affect business, financial condition and results of operations.
- The economic benefit of our offerings to our customers depends on the cost of electricity available from alternative sources, including local electric utility companies, which cost structure is subject to change.
- Our business is subject to risks associated with construction, utility interconnection and delays, including those related to obtaining government permits and other contingencies that may arise in the course of completing installations.
- Our business depends on customers renewing their services subscriptions. If customers do not continue to use our subscription offerings or if we fail to expand the availability of hardware and software-enabled services available to our customers, our business and operating results will be adversely affected.
- Changes in subscriptions or pricing models may not be reflected in near-term operating results.
- Severe weather events, including the effects of climate change, are inherently unpredictable and may have a material adverse effect on our financial results and financial condition.
- Increased scrutiny from stakeholders and regulators regarding ESG practices and disclosures, including those related to sustainability, and disclosure could result in additional costs and adversely impact our business and reputation.
- We Face Risks Related to our DevCo Business Model
- We depend on significant customers for a substantial portion of our revenue. If we fail to retain or expand our customer relationships or significant customers reduce their purchases, our revenue could decline significantly.
- Our estimates of variable consideration related to revenue recognition in connection with guarantees that we have issued under certain customer contracts are difficult to estimate, and if our subsequent estimates differ significantly from initial estimates, we will be required to record an adjustment in a subsequent period.
- Our hardware and software-enabled services rely on interconnections to distribution and transmission facilities that are owned and operated by third parties, and as a result, are exposed to interconnection and transmission facility development and curtailment risks.
- Our growth depends in part on the success of our relationships with third parties, including contractors and project developers
- We must maintain customer confidence in our long-term business prospects in order to grow our business.
- If we are unsuccessful in developing and maintaining our proprietary technology, including our Athena platform, our ability to attract and retain partners could be impaired, our competitive position could be adversely affected and our revenue could be reduced.
- A failure of our information technology (“IT”) and data security infrastructure could adversely affect our business and operations.
- Our technology, including the Athena platform, could have undetected defects, errors or bugs in hardware or software which could reduce market adoption, damage our reputation with current or prospective customers and/or expose us to product liability and other claims that could materially and adversely affect our business.
- Our failure to adequately secure, protect and enforce our intellectual property rights may undermine our competitive position, and litigation to protect our intellectual property rights may be costly.
- Our patent applications may not result in issued patents, and our issued patents may not provide adequate protection, which may have a material adverse effect on our ability to prevent others from commercially exploiting products similar to ours.
- We may need to defend ourselves against claims that we infringe, have misappropriated or otherwise violate the intellectual property rights of others, which may be time consuming and would cause us to incur substantial costs.
- The installation and operation of our energy storage systems are subject to environmental laws and regulations in various jurisdictions, and there is uncertainty with respect to the interpretation of certain environmental laws and regulations to our energy storage systems, especially as these regulations evolve over time.
- Existing regulations and changes to such regulations impacting the electric power industry may create technical, regulatory and economic barriers which could significantly reduce demand for our energy storage systems.
- Negative attitudes toward renewable energy projects from the U.S. government, other lawmakers and regulators, and activists could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
- Opposition to our customers’ project requests for permits or successful challenges or appeals to permits issued for their projects could adversely affect our operating plans.
- Changes in the U.S. trade environment, including the imposition of import tariffs, could adversely affect the amount or timing of our revenues, results of operations or cash flows.
- We may issue a significant number of shares in the future in connection with investments or acquisitions.
- If we fail to maintain an effective system of disclosure controls and internal control over financial reporting, our ability to produce timely and accurate consolidated financial statements or comply with applicable regulations could be impaired.
- If analysts do not publish research about our business or if they publish inaccurate or unfavorable research, our stock price and trading volume could decline.
- The trading price of our common stock is volatile.
- Our financial condition and results of operations and other key metrics are likely to fluctuate on a quarterly basis in future periods, which could cause our results for a particular period to fall below expectations, resulting in a severe decline in the price of our common stock.
- Certain provisions of our Amended and Restated Charter and Amended and Restated Bylaws may have an anti- takeover effect and may delay, defer or prevent a merger, acquisition, tender offer, takeover attempt or other change of control transaction that a stockholder might consider in its best interest, including those attempts that might result in a premium over the market price for the shares held by our stockholders.
- Our Amended and Restated Charter designates the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware as the sole and exclusive forum for certain types of actions and proceedings that may be initiated by our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, employees or stockholders.
- We are subject to counterparty risk with respect to the capped call transactions.
- Our management team has limited experience managing a public company.
- Future litigation or administrative proceedings could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
- Our operating results may be adversely affected by unfavorable macroeconomic, geopolitical, and market conditions.
Management Discussion
- ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
- You should read the following management’s discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations (“MD&A”) in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and the related notes included in Part II, Item 8, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of this Report. In addition to our historical consolidated financial information, the following discussion contains forward-looking statements that reflect our plans, estimates, and beliefs. Our actual results and the timing of certain events could differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to these differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed below and elsewhere in this Report, particularly in Part I, Item 1A, “Risk Factors.”
- This MD&A generally discusses 2023 and 2022 items and year-to-year comparisons between 2023 and 2022. Discussions of 2021 items and year-to-year comparisons between 2022 and 2021 that are not included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K can be found in Part II, Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 17, 2023.