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| It's been very successful for us financially, for our dealers financially and for our partner, retail partners financially |
| But we see a lot of opportunity to improve our cost structure on the service side of things and we're realizing that |
| We stand apart in this regard, fortified by our scale, robust balance sheet, agility and forward-thinking approach, enabling us to not only weather this storm but pick up market share and expand margins in the process |
| The past few weeks we have seen encouraging signs of improved market dynamics beginning to emerge |
| That's been a huge benefit to us in terms of profitable growth and we expect that to continue |
| There's always ways that we can improve our customer service |
| I would say, general trend growth, solid growth |
| And you can see that over the years that we've done that better than anybody frankly |
| And the other items that we offer in roofing and generators and all of that is really got a pretty strong uptake |
| And so we see a lot of opportunity to really drop our customer acquisition costs, but just minding our current customer base and delivering them better and better services as products come on the market that are better and cheaper frankly on the overall organic growth outside adding new customers that continues to be where we're taking market share |
| So I think the market is clearly very healthy |
| It's a record year for us |
| Slide 7 highlights Sunnova's continued ability to efficiently access the capital markets |
| And given our strong paper performance, we have seen investors wanted to flock to it versus some of the other paper markets and that could widen it out further than what I've ever seen |
| So, a great time fundamentally and this too shall pass, but we'll come out the other end of this much, much stronger, with new technologies, cheap cheaper storage and better customer service |
| We clearly have a new leadership we brought in over a year ago and that's been a tremendous improvement |
| And so I think we're I think we're going to have a better year overall as an industry than people think |
| We could certainly do much better than that, but it's not a big part of the guidance |
| So we feel like we're in a good spot financially |
| So we feel pretty good about where we are |
| Clearly, you're seeing the benefit of that in your customer service quality metrics |
| But one thing that's been very gratifying to us is that there does appear to be a really strong push for building domestic content |
| This significant increase in cash generation beyond 2024 is a reflection of our pricing changes and can be further enhanced towards the top end of the range through improvements in treasury rates, ever-tightening risk premiums, and final domestic content guidance |
| So we're able to take advantage of better pricing |
| We are an adapted energy services company that has an unwavering focus on innovative technologies, integrated energy solutions and quality control as evidenced by our investments in our global command center and our adaptive technology center, both designed to optimize our operations and provide our customers with a strong customer experience |
| So, right now, we feel pretty good about our trend, here, we are seeing more and more pickup on growth as the quarter goes on |
| Moreover, in 2023, we saw an 80% improvement in our service response time as the average age of close work quarter went from 96 days as of December 31, 2022 to 19 days as of December 31, 2023 |
| This marked improvement was driven by our investments in our customer service infrastructure, which enhanced and strengthened our customer service levels and capabilities |
| And so I think overall the fundamentals are really good across the industry and the -- the ability to see that through the headlines, negative headlines is very challenging |
| But I think we feel pretty good about where this range is I would say that we had -- as we cut our cotton CapEx down from the Q3 call for this year, we clearly had customer additions north of this range in our plan |
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| Even with this significant increase, our NCCV per share ended the year lower than expected, primarily due to the timing of tax equity closures and fourth quarter customer additions coming in slightly below our expectations |
| While this unfortunate reality for some may have caused apprehension and generated negative headlines |
| And that gets into that, there's an overall, clearly, negative and cloud over -- over the industry, whether it's from the debt markets, credit markets, or the equity markets, or sometimes in the media we've seen that |
| Macroeconomic challenges and a rapidly evolving landscape meant that companies who are unable to adapt and tackle these challenges head-on have struggled or exited the market |
| There's no question about it and we're bringing it down meaningfully and slowing growth |
| But yeah, it's been a challenging year |
| But I'm also wondering, is there a scenario where customer additions may be a bit lower as we reduced the gross unit growth initiatives |
| It's come back down since then there's still the belief that it goes down further in the year |
| So all of this is, if you look at the numbers you look at what's going on, yeah, it's difficult to move when you have a name change that is brought in as significant as what California did, and that causes a lot of pain because people need to change innovator |
| There's been a couple of stumbles on some dealers |
| So it's a – it's something that we certainly have been a bit surprised about |
| And so specifically as well as storage pricing as battery pricing continues to plummet downwards |
| While there is no denying that what we are doing is difficult |
| On the service side, I've talked over the last few quarters about catching up on the service levels that we have promised our customers |
| So I think that's overall just a unfortunate and cloud that at some point will blow away, and because the reality even when you look at California, which were not big in California that made that point over and over, but just looking at California |
| We are being intentionally slowing the CapEx growth |
| In the EV -- in the market for commercial -- or sorry for consumer EVs, there has been sort of slower growth than maybe people are initially thinking the idea that well you had the early adopters and then maybe some kind of intermediate wave of adopters |
| But the market, I'm surprised, been around the market for a while a long time |
| Additionally, we’ve initiated an immediate pause in spending related to select growth initiatives such as international expansion |
| So fairly modest and less than what we had produced this year |
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