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Richard Dovere: Richard Dovere, My company is Adamas Energy Investment and we are located New York. We are a Renewable Energy Project Developer and Fund that focuses in markets abroad and we are just starting to look at markets in the U.S. as well. Well because, we build power assets, we focus on project finance and our revenues are generated from electricity sales into a particular local grid. As a consequence, with most of our projects being built abroad, foreign exports are an essential part of our business and we use U.S. manufactured components for, we try to use U.S. manufactured components for everything that we do. The Export-Import Bank is a big part of that. Right now, because of all the change in Renewable Energy policy across the globe, the fluctuations make it harder for private banking partners to be active on a consistent basis. With the Export-Import Bank, there is a desire; the underline desire is not a full profit entity, but rather to promote American Jobs and American Manufacturing. And so, when we face policy challenges, most private banks will simply stop and they won't continue. With the Export-Bank, our loan is still in process and still will move forward because there is such a focus, rather than on, a percentage point difference and DSCR; but rather promoting American Jobs and American Manufacturing. And again, in the changing global context, that is Renewable Energy and Renewable Energy Manufacturing, especially with the Chinese manufacturers getting such support from the Chinese Government, it important for a, it's only so many levers that you can push. So if we have to pay a certain higher rate for our components that are manufactured in the United States, but instead get a lower interest rate from the Export-Import Bank; that play a huge role in our ability to make decisions. And so, you can push the levers on a project and end up still with aggressive returns by you, still by using U.S. components.