Clean power, at a price you can put in a budget.
A PPA is a long commitment. Done well it holds a large part of your electricity cost still and backs it with real generation. Done badly it is an expensive hedge in the wrong shape.
What you get
- A view before you commit. Your half-hourly consumption against what each structure would actually have cost over the last few years.
- A real market test. Generators and suppliers approached in competition, with offers put on a single comparable basis.
- Traceable green claims. REGO backed supply that stands up to reporting scrutiny, rather than a certificate bought at the last minute.
- Contract review. The terms read properly before signature, including the ones that only matter in year six.
Questions worth settling early
- How much of your load?
- Covering all of it sounds tidy and rarely is. Most buyers are better served by a PPA over a portion, with the balance bought conventionally.
- Fixed or indexed?
- A flat price for ten years is certainty and it is also a bet. Collars and indexation share the risk in a way finance teams often prefer.
- Shape and shortfall
- Solar does not generate when you need it in January. Someone has to supply the gap and price the excess.
- Accounting treatment
- Virtual PPAs are derivatives. Get your auditors in the room before the term sheet, not after, and earlier still if the contract crosses a border or a currency.
- Credit
- A generator financing a new asset on your offtake will want security. What you can offer shapes who will trade with you.
24/7 hourly matched supply, not once a year.
Standard green supply reconciles annually. You use a year of power, a year of certificates is retired against it, and nothing requires the generation to have happened while you were consuming. Matched supply settles hourly against generation that was live at the time, with the remaining hours covered by REGO backed supply so the annual position is fully renewable.
- What you can claim
- An hourly record of source, independently verified, not an annual offset position. It stands up to scrutiny in a way that a certificate bought in March for a year that ended in December does not.
- What it is not
- It is not carbon free every hour of every year. No stack achieves that. It is a measured position with the gaps disclosed, which is the honest version, and the useful one.
- Where it fits
- From about 2 GWh a year upward. Additionality, where generation is contracted specifically against your load, is the part that needs around 20 GWh.
- How it is delivered
- Through a private market arrangement or a supplier product, depending on your load and credit position. We are not tied to either. On a supplier route our commission is shown in the contract you sign; on a PPA we are commonly paid by both sides and say so up front.
Not every business needs a PPA.
We work with loads from about 2 GWh a year upward. Size does not decide whether you can do this; it decides the shape of it. At the smaller end it is usually a supplier PPA, where your supplier holds the contract with the generator and passes the power to you inside your supply: simpler, quicker, and no credit support needed from you. Further up, going direct to a named generator starts to be worth the work and the terms become yours to negotiate. Hourly matching runs across the whole range; additionality, where generation is contracted specifically against your load, needs around 20 GWh.
Manufacturing and industrial
Steady, high-volume load. The best fit for a sleeved PPA and usually the largest saving in absolute terms.
Multi-site portfolios
Retail, logistics, hospitality and property. Many meters, varied shapes, and a good case for a virtual structure across the whole estate.
Multi-country estates
Consumption spread across several markets, where one virtual contract can cover load that no single physical supply arrangement could reach.
Public and third sector
Councils, dioceses, trusts and universities, where procurement rules and reporting duties shape what is possible.
Wherever you are in the contract, we can help.
Generators, buyers, and the people advising them. The first conversation costs nothing and usually tells you quickly whether there is anything here.