Nathan Witkop

Cross-border PPAs jumped with the volatility that followed first the Covid 19 pandemic then Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. At the time, pressure to hedge against extreme price swings aligned with a regulatory push to meet tougher climate targets. Pexapark, a renewable energy advisory service, tallied an increase from 370 MW

An obvious obstacle to Italian PPAs was a recently introduced support scheme for renewable energy that crowded out the commercial market, said energy consultant Sergio Giraldo.

“The [EU's] green deal will come under even more fire than at present and is likely to be significantly weakened,” said energy economist Uwe Leprich, former head of energy of the German Environment Agency (UBA), referring to the effects of the Republican

Concluding a PPA still required individual negotiations and deep knowledge of the electricity market despite standardised contracts, said Valentina Eigner, lawyer at DLA Piper.

(Montel) Germany should focus on swiftly rolling out gas-fired power plants to back up its renewables capacity instead of linking the assets to specific decarbonisation technologies, RWE's finance chief said on Wednesday.

“Gazprom wants to keep monetising its gas for as long as it can,” said Bolz, now a consultant for international law firm Baker McKenzie. Austrian oil and gas company OMV warned last week its gas supply from Gazprom may terminate earlier than expected following an arbitration court ruling demanding Gazprom

In Britain, developers often pursued both options simultaneously but typically favoured the security of the government's contracts for difference (CFDs), said Freddie Lyons from consultancy Afry.

“The pace of corporate clean energy procurements in the UK has been robust and is poised to maintain good momentum in the coming years,” said Placido Ostos, director of European energy analytics at renewables platform provider LevelTen Energy.

Public guarantees could play a crucial role in supporting PPA market developmen t, Lorenzo Parola, managing partner at law firm Parola Associati, told Montel.

(Montel) Energy market volatility is making battery storage projects increasingly attractive across Europe and could cause a surge in investment, attendees of a German energy storage conference said on Tuesday.