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On the other hand, I do not want Tesla to get mixed up in the numerous exotic financial products which SolarCity has entangled itself with.
Without the tax equity component this might be a concern, but there's a pretty sweet buffer there. The only real risk is in repayment reliability and there's been zero concern there to date. AFAIK repayment is still well over 99% and the average customer is still in that 740 credit score region.For the consumer, sure. It's sometimes a blow-up-company, go-bankrupt move for the company setting up the structured finance.
No, they aren't. Read the annual report again. The most obvious risk: they've got 3-month "solar bonds" financing solar installs which have 20-year payment streams. That requires frequent and repeated refinancing. I'm not clear on how large this exposure is. There are several other financing schemes which expose them to more esoteric risks.
Go do some basic 101-level research into banking crises before you comment on this again.
If every install (with a 20-year payment stream) were financed with a 20-year non-callable bond, and the interest rate spread between the 20-year bond and the homeowner's payment was positive, there would be nothing to worry about. (It would be even better yet if the installs were financed by equity.) That is not what is happening at SolarCity.