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Power Purchase Agreement

A Power Purchase Agreement, or PPA, is a long-term agreement to buy power from a company that produces electricity.

Solar Power Partners

Solar Power Partners (SPP™) is one provider of PPAs, who use their own source of funds to build a solar energy facility on our customer's site and maintains and operates the facility for 15 years or longer.

This facility generates reliable, long-term clean energy for use by customers. Under the terms of a PPA, SPP™ assumes the risks and responsibilities of ownership when it purchases, operates, and maintains the turn-key facility. They clean the solar panels regularly, provide preventative maintenance services, repair any faults, monitor the energy production and the system's health and well-being. Customers just run their businesses as usual, without any of the headaches of owning a power plant.

At the end of the PPA term, the facility can be purchased by customers at fair maket value or the PPA can be renewed on favorable terms. The PPA enables customers to benefit from the use of "green" energy, while still receiving some of the benefits of ownership (lower and/or "hedged" electricity costs, positive public image, etc. ) and allows them to spend their capital budget on their core businesses.

Additional Resources about PPAs:

Power Purchase Agreements from Renewable Energy Technologies

The industry's leading website address (domain name) for Power Purchase Agreements - www.PowerPurchaseAgreements.com - may now be available for lease under ...
www.cogeneration.net/Power_Purchase_Agreements.htm

Power Purchase Agreement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) is a legal contract between an electricity generator and a purchaser of energy or capacity (power or ancillary services). ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Purchase_Agreement

 
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Technology is a hungry beast -- especially hot sectors like energy. The more money involved -- the faster the innovation cycle. Life cycles are short and companies must continually re-engineer themselves to leapfrog over their own solutions before the competition beats them to it.

Photovoltaic solar is now the technology undergoing that re-engineering phase. From crystalline solar modules that relay on large quantities of silicon to thin-film solar that reduces reliance on that natural material in short supply...and being replaced by quicker, easier, more economical use of labor and raw materials.

A coming glut in solar modules will turn out the lights at some of today's solar players, altering the industry landscape by 2010, says Lux Research.

The study, titled “Solar State of the Market Q1 2008: The End of the Beginning,” says solar industry revenue will continue its brisk advance from $21.2 billion in 2007 to $70.9 billion in 2012. But that advance will mask dislocations within the industry as companies unable to make the transition from crystalline solar modules to newer thin-film technologies see their market evaporate.

SOURCE: redherring.com