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Bullish wholesale power prices are helping developers pass on inflation and grid risks but non-standard contracts are becoming more common to mitigate volatile markets and secure smaller offtakers.
Finance
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Solar operators take on price, timing risk to secure offtakers
Nov 27, 2019
Asset managers are building wholesale market expertise and creating time-sensitive labor and cleaning strategies to meet the risk demands of offtakers, leading operators told the PV USA Operations conference.
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Pan-European contract template unlocks financing for solar, wind
Jul 3, 2019
A new standard European power contract will bring proven credit risk measures to corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs), accelerating growth in multi-offtaker projects and spurring PPA activity across Europe, Jan Haizmann, Chair of the European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET) Legal Committee, told New Energy Update.
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Europe solar investors adapt contracts to supply smaller, riskier firms
Mar 20, 2019
Growing demand from smaller corporate renewable offtakers is spurring multi-layered power purchase agreements and new risk aggregator models, experts told the PV Operations Europe 2019 conference.
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Falling prices boost UK solar outlook but land, offtake risks remain
Feb 20, 2019
Plummeting solar costs have reignited UK market activity but growth rates will depend on land rents, grid upgrades and long-term offtake demand, leading solar developers said.
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Enhanced solar finance structures unlock higher equity returns
Jul 18, 2017
Optimized placement of operations and maintenance costs within project finance structures can maximize returns in the increasingly-competitive utility-scale market, Nicolas Gourvitch, Director at Green Giraffe, a renewable energy financial advisory firm, said.