Resilience as a Service
Subscription models that decouple emergency power access from property values and land speculation.
Scipionic Energy
Scipionic Energy designs community-scale resilience programs, microgrids, and policy-ready pilots that keep critical services running during outages. We partner with utilities, municipalities, and public-benefit operators to translate funding into deployable infrastructure.
Community Energy Hubs
Distributed energy resources that keep clinics, fire stations, and shelters online during PSPS events.
Grant-Ready Financing
Funding stacks that align federal incentives, state programs, and local capital planning.
Emergency Operations Planning
Operational playbooks for smoke derates, islanding events, and multi-day outages.
Program Path
We move from feasibility to field deployment with a staged approach that protects vulnerable communities while building scalable utility partnerships.
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Feasibility & Modeling
Load profiles, outage risk scoring, and incentive stacking.
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Deployment Blueprint
Site selection, resilience contracts, and community engagement.
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Operational Scale
Monitoring, performance guarantees, and utility compliance.
Research
Strategy briefs, interactive reports, and data-backed guidance for resilience deployments.
Strategic Report
Resilience as a Service - Strategic Report
Explore the wildfire resilience strategy, subsidy stack, and phased rollout model.
White PaperResilience as a Service - White Paper
Deep dive on community microgrids, operational risks, and deployment economics.
Live DemoSmoke Derate Simulation Engine
Interactive simulation of the 2021 Caldor Fire event—modeling how wildfire smoke depletes battery reserves and how load-shedding algorithms keep communities powered.
Live DataCalifornia Grid Intelligence — Live
Live CAISO generation mix, the evening ramp, carbon intensity, wholesale hub prices, CAL FIRE incidents and utility reliability, refreshed every five minutes.
Policy PaperImplementing Golden State Energy
A governance, financing, and delivery architecture for public power in California: what the law permits, how to fund it without taxes, and how to build it.
White paper in brief
Implementing Golden State Energy
California already has a public, ratepayer-owned utility on the books. Golden State Energy was created by SB 350 in June 2020 as a nonprofit public benefit corporation with eminent-domain and bond powers, but it activates only if PG&E fails, and it has never been incorporated, staffed, or funded. Our paper lays out how the state could build its governance, financing, and delivery architecture now, trimmed to what state and federal law actually permit.
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Public financing works; tax financing largely does not.
Tax-exempt revenue bonds repaid by ratepayers carry roughly a 210-basis-point cost-of-capital advantage, and SMUD's rates run more than 50 percent below neighboring PG&E's. Propositions 13, 218, and 26 make tax- or parcel-fee funding of a utility very hard, so the capital must be revenue bonds, not taxes.
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Eminent domain is available but slow, and federal law caps state ambitions.
PG&E's rate base is roughly $69 billion; valuation and "more necessary public use" fights run for years, with the standard of review now before the California Supreme Court. FERC's exclusive jurisdiction over wholesale and interstate sales means the state can own generation and set retail rates but cannot condition or share in interstate and export sales.
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Contractors cannot be made to eat every overrun.
The Spearin doctrine and California's differing-site-conditions statute make absolute risk-shifting unenforceable and bid-inflating. The lawful discipline package is progressive design-build, calibrated pain-share and gain-share, liquidated damages and bonds, reference-class budgets, and the statutes of repose.
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Labor is a swing vote; nuclear stays on the shelf.
SB 350 already obliges GSE to assume PG&E's collective bargaining agreements and pensions, and IBEW Local 1245 remains strongly opposed. New nuclear is frozen by the state's waste-disposal moratorium; a shelf-ready framework can be designed now, budgeted against Vogtle's roughly 2.5 times cost and seven-year delay.
What we recommend
2026 to 2027, study and capitalize. Fund a statutory feasibility and transition study, incorporate GSE, seat its nine-member board, and seed it through the I-Bank pathway SB 350 already authorizes.
2027 to 2029, finance and pilot. Structure all capital as tax-exempt revenue bonds; run one bounded pilot under progressive design-build; register for FERC market-based rates and the Extended Day-Ahead Market.
2029 onward, scale through the county and CCA layer. Pair eminent domain with LAFCO approval and local authorization to form public distributors, and build the MC3, High Road, and project-labor workforce architecture in parallel.
The paper is explicit about what remains unresolved: the Apple Valley eminent-domain case, the fate of SB 875 and SB 332, the NEM 3.0 reconsideration, and federal waste-storage litigation.
Read the full white paper