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While the Texas freeze might be considered a black swan event, HASI's reporting on the financial performance of its largest JV by assets, Jupiter, shows that negative revenue and additional losses were not confined to that period. Negative revenue comes from hedging losses relating to power sales, in which the amounts due to be paid to the hedge counterparty exceed the earnings from the sale of the power. Over the full year 2021, Jupiter generated negative ($253 million) in revenue and recorded ($450 million) in net losses, of which only 28.4% ($72 million) and 36.7% ($165 million) of the losses were booked in Q1, which is the quarter in which the 2021 Texas freeze occurred. 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