But coming in with a contract under comparative energy prices, is a jolly good way of getting a lot of assets up fast, and paying off a part of the capital investment on all the assets. Then after 5 years you can rub your hands together and call any price you like.

These kind of deals look attractive to short-term thinking, (and 5 years is a long time in municipal budgeting), but I think they are giving away a lot in a panic.

Cheap mortgage anyone?

You can't be me, I'm taken