1. Start with the production record
SCADA telemetry becomes production events for every settlement period, with lossless retention behind it. Nothing is re-keyed.
Feature · Royalty Settlement
When a landowner asks
why the check changed, answer them
Bring production, contract terms, CPI adjustments, curtailment, approval, and payment into one settlement process that your team can review and explain.
Read the transcript
She lives on a fixed income. When the check doesn't come on time, there's no cushion behind it. Somewhere, an analyst takes that call live and has to rebuild an entire month's math before she can answer it. One unexpected number, and the whole room reorganizes around it. Whatever wasn't urgent an hour ago slides to the bottom of the pile. Because the same bad math also lands on her tax form at year-end. One wrong circle, and it isn't just her check anymore.
On Flux Energy, she doesn't rebuild the month. She just asks it. The exact question she couldn't answer on the phone, answered before she even hangs up. CPI where the contract calls for it. Flat where it doesn't. Never confused, never late. One correct number. Every filing it touches, correct with it.
She checks the mailbox every week. The month, meanwhile, is already being counted, whether she's watching or not. The wind blew. The price was low. One tag, and every filing downstream of it, including the 1099, knows the same thing. Fourteen columns, assembled, not reconstructed. She reviews. She doesn't rebuild. One release. One approval. The check and the 1099 are correct together, not one fixed and the other forgotten.
Then it moves the same day, every month, without anyone chasing it or letting anything else fall behind. The exact difference she noticed sits right there in her own portal, explained, not defended. Right on time, this time, and the number on her tax form will match it too. Flux Energy. The check that explains itself.
The problem
A simple payment question can derail the whole day
- A landowner's check arrives, and no one can tell her why it's different this year.
- An analyst rebuilds the month's math by hand across production, contract rate, CPI index, and curtailment every period, under pressure.
- One wrong number doesn't stay in one place. It lands on the 1099 too, and the whole team drops other work to chase it.
How it works
How production becomes an approved payment
2. Apply the contract terms in order
Gross revenue → base royalty → CPI adjustment → REC share → curtailment deduction → net payment. Every component visible in the 14-column settlement breakdown.
3. Apply CPI only to contracts that include it
Escalated and flat contracts run side by side without confusion. The CPI escalation engine applies the index multiplier only to contracts that carry the clause. Holds and variance review sit on top.
4. Release, approve, post, pay
Dual control above threshold, GL accrual in balanced double-entry, ACH or Stripe Connect disbursement, and 1099 figures compiled from what was actually paid.
What you get
Give the analyst and landowner the same explanation
Payment detail a landowner can review
Landowners see production, CPI detail, curtailment, and payment history by parcel and period.
Settlements that are reproducible
Every figure traces to its inputs. Defensible under audit, not reconstructed from a spreadsheet.
Keep the payment, ledger, and tax figure aligned
The payment, the ledger entry, and the tax form inherit the same figure from the same run.
The 30-second version
Royalty settlement, without the jargon
Read the transcript
When a wind turbine generates power, the landowner who leases that land gets paid a share. But the exact amount depends on a lot of variables, including energy price, a cost-of-living adjustment, and any power that had to be curtailed. Most companies calculate that by hand, every month. One mistake and the check is wrong, and so is the tax form.
In Flux Energy, the calculation runs automatically, in a fixed sequence. You can see every step. A second person approves it. Then it posts to the books and the payment goes out the same day, every month. The landowner can log in and see exactly why their check is what it is.
That's royalty settlement with Flux Energy.
Where this connects
The work connected to a settlement
BESS & hybrid optimization
Battery and capacity settlements auto-post into the same money path this page describes.
Bankability
The thread a lender pulls from a P50 runs back through these fourteen columns to the sensor.
Landowner portal
The counterparty side of the same record covers production transparency, payment history, and CPI detail.
Questions
Common questions
What happens if a contract doesn't have a CPI clause?
It settles at its contract rate with no escalation. CPI adjustment is applied per contract, only where the clause exists. A flat-rate contract and an escalated one can sit in the same run without affecting each other.
How is curtailment deducted, and can a landowner see it?
Curtailment events are recorded against the period they occurred in and appear as their own column in the settlement breakdown. The landowner portal shows the deduction alongside production and CPI detail.
What does dual-control approval mean for payments?
Batches above a configured threshold require a second approver before funds move. The threshold and the approvers are set per tenant.
Can we re-run a settlement before releasing it?
Yes. The settlement sandbox runs what-if computations without posting, and holds keep a period from releasing until variances are resolved.
Where does the 1099 figure come from?
From disbursement history, based on what was actually paid, not from a separate spreadsheet. The same figure that posted to the ledger is the one compiled onto the form.
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