This pitch deck can be utilized to help secure buy-in from key decision makers for an off-site solar or wind project. It includes customizable slides that help explain how these types of projects work, as well as calculate or speak to the economic, climate, jobs, and health benefits of an off-site project.
This paper serves as an introduction to the virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA)—its place in the off-site renewable energy procurement market, how the VPPA works, and why VPPAs have been a popular instrument in the United States thus far.
The report, of which this is the executive summary, dives into five specific risks buyers find unfamiliar: price, shape, basis, volume, and operational risk. It then reviews a range of mitigation strategies.
This Excel model provides a lifecycle financial analysis of off-site renewable energy physical PPAs and virtual PPAs. There are two primary use cases: 1) evaluating the economic implications of off-site versus other renewable procurement methods early in the procurement process, and 2) comparing different off-site PPA RFP bids later in the procurement process.
A webinar in which CRA staff provide an overview of the most common transactions used to purchase renewable electricity in the U.S.
The City of Boston released a Request for Information on renewable energy projects that could supply a group of cities via an off-site virtual power purchase agreement.
The City of Cincinnati released a Request for Qualification in January 2019, which included on-site and off-site renewable energy projects.
Chapter 6 of this U.S. EPA guide outlines the key criteria to use when evaluating project developers and important contract terms.
LevelTen releases a quarterly blog that provides aggregated pricing information for large-scale wind and solar power purchase agreements in various regions of the U.S.
While not specific to U.S. cities, this report provides a useful overview of potential risks in off-site power purchase agreements.
