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Trinomio · 3Labs
The laboratory
Designs the Energy → Firm ← Capital architecture and the method.
3Labs
3Labs: Trinomio's laboratory
The energy transition opens opportunities before they have a price, a contract or a rule. 3Labs is the laboratory where Trinomio reads them, gives them measure and turns them into firms that capital can finance.
Method
Our method has three steps: Sense, Size and Transform.
It is not a sequence that ends. It is a cycle: what we learn by building returns to the laboratory and sharpens what we sense next.
3Labs cycle
what we learn returns to the laboratory
Energy → Firm ← Capital
Step 01
SENSE
Reading what has no price yet
Before an opportunity shows up in a contract or a tariff, it is already forming. It forms in draft laws, in technological change, in climate change, in public concern and in the pressures of geopolitics.
Sensing means reading those forces in time. We ask which of them could fit into the current structure of the electricity system, and which could change it altogether.
The result is not an opinion: it is a direction. Sensing tells us which assets are worth forming, and when.
Where an opportunity forms
draft lawstechnological changeclimate changepublic concerngeopolitics
Step 02
SIZE
Giving measure to what was sensed
A direction is not yet a business. Sizing means drawing its limits: separating what earns revenue from what only promises it, measuring the risk and deciding what size it can support.
Sizing is also recombining. Sometimes value appears when we join pieces that are weak on their own.
Only opportunities whose energy value covers their cost move forward. The rest stay in the laboratory.
An example
- The sun produces more in dry years. Water in a small hydro plant produces more in wet years.
- On its own, each asset has a cash flow that rises and falls. Together, their ups and downs offset each other, and the combined flow becomes steadier.
- A steadier flow can carry more debt with the same safety. So the same assets can finance more.
Step 03
TRANSFORM
Turning measure into a firm
Transforming means acting. We form an Energy Enterprise: an energy company structured to be financeable. It has a business model, contracts, rights, measurement and governance, so capital can understand it, measure it and finance it.
The enterprise then builds its first asset, proves its cash flow and reaches market financing. The capital released goes back to work in the next asset or in a new Energy Enterprise.
Each cycle leaves learning behind. That learning returns to the laboratory and improves what we sense and size next.
What an Energy Enterprise has
business modelcontractsrightsmeasurementgovernance
Laboratory and vessel
Who designs and who operates
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Aureon Nexus
The vessel
Operates what the laboratory designs: it forms the Energy Enterprises, holds the contracts and brings the assets into operation.
The 3Labs method is applied in Aureon Nexus and is available to other capital-market structuring vehicles focused on the energy transition.
We disclose our relationships openly. Trinomio advises on the design of investment instruments for the energy transition, and those instruments may invest in firms that Aureon Nexus forms. Neither Trinomio nor Aureon Nexus manages funds or acts as a fiduciary.
Applied in real structures
The method in practice
The method is not only a theory: it is applied in real structures.
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Coopesantos
Power purchase agreement signed, moving toward its commercial operation date (COD).
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New Energy Enterprises
We have begun relationships to form them, and with established Costa Rican financial institutions.
We will update this section as each structure reaches its next stage.