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Nick Walden · origination, from the desk where clean power gets bought
Associate of Origination at TransAlta — the seat that turns renewable-energy goals into signed contracts and settled megawatts. Same team, same lane as the origination work SideGuy already maps.
Who Nick is
The power-origination desk
Power origination is a contracts-and-data business wearing a sustainability badge: term sheets, settlement reconciliation, counterparty tracking — every one a document or a number that has to be right and on time. The people who systematize that data spend more time on the part that closes the deal.
What a SideGuy does for Nick
Where a one-person tech layer fits energy origination
- The settlement-reconciliation grind — numbers that have to tie out every cycle, systematized instead of hand-checked.
- Deal & counterparty tracking — term sheets and PPA status in one live view, not an inbox.
- The energy mesh — ties into the operator-owned-energy thesis SideGuy already builds on (solar → owned compute).
Nick, origination is the seat where market judgment turns into a signed, settled deal.
SideGuy is the layer underneath — the reconciliation, tracking, and reporting that free the judgment from the spreadsheet.
Want a tech department for an hour?
Neighbor to neighbor. No Calendly · no pitch.
Either way · open hand. Text PJ at 858-461-8054.
Find Nick publicly
Nick's work, not ours
- LinkedIn: Nick Walden
- Company: TransAlta · power origination · renewables
Same lane on SideGuy
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