Whatever your motives, RES has the experience to help you maximise the benefits of a PPA. As the world’s largest independent renewable energy company, we have a proven track record of delivering projects and are well respected by financial institutions in every country in which we operate. Read more about RES.

We have already supported the ambition of companies such as General Mills, Microsoft, Telstra, Coca Cola Amatil, General Motors and Google by signing over 1.5GW of PPAs. As a global company, we have a worldwide portfolio of renewable energy projects constructed or in development. For those with a larger energy requirement, we can club projects together, which could help reduce the number of companies you’re contracting with.

Our global experience means we can help you navigate the complexity and time involved in understanding and agreeing a PPA contract, and as a major player in the PPA market we can also offer you a range of options – you can choose the type of PPA, the renewable energy technology, the duration and the contracting structure.

Virtual PPAs

A virtual power purchase agreement, is a purely financial contract whereby the offtaker exchanges a fixed-price cash flow for a variable cash flow and often renewable energy credits. Over 80% of power purchase agreements signed with corporate offtakers in 2019 were “virtual” PPAs that do not involve physical delivery of electricity. The project owner enters into a VPPA with a corporate offtaker. The project pays the corporate offtaker the floating revenues it receives from the electricity sales and exchanges this for fixed payments received from the corporate offtaker.

Physical PPAs

Physical or ‘Sleeved’ PPA structures see power physically delivered to the buyer – either directly from the seller, or via a utility partner. This arrangement usually sees the buyer enter into two separate PPAs: one with the seller, and one with a utility that will act as an ‘agent ’to manage the offtake of power from the renewable energy project on the buyer’s behalf. A key advantage is that it enables the buyer to account for intermittency of output from the renewable energy project.

We’re here to help fast forward your understanding of the renewable energy landscape and PPA deal structures, so please get in touch.