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Power Purchase Agreements: reassessing the risks behind renewable power’s growth engine with Werner Trabesinger
FromThe HC Insider Podcast: Conversations in Energy & Commodities
Power Purchase Agreements: reassessing the risks behind renewable power’s growth engine with Werner Trabesinger
FromThe HC Insider Podcast: Conversations in Energy & Commodities
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Length:
51 minutes
Released:
Jan 12, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
PPAs unlocked the power of renewables leading to the sectors incredible rise over the past decade. These long term agreements, primarily selling the power to utilities, provided the foundation for a whole slate of new developers to create wind and solar farms across Europe and US. Everything worked well in a decade of low prices and low volatility. Then came 2021 and these long term PPAs created an existential risk to certain participants. Utilities have faced huge margin calls to manage their exposure to hedged PPAs warehoused on their balance sheets. What is the history of the PPA? What do the events of 2021 mean for the PPA going forwards? How will their structure and tenure change in response? And what will it do to the appetite of buyers and what will that mean for the renewable power industry? Our guest is Werner Trabesinger, Head of Quantitative Analytics at Pexapark, a software company enabling market players to sell, manage and buy renewable power. To find out more about HC and our talent advisory services in the energy & commodities sector visit www.hcgroup.global/hc-insider To connect with our host Paul Chapman, you can find him at www.linkedin.com/in/paulchapmanhc/
Released:
Jan 12, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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