Chart of the week | Flexible asset PPA market—growing, evolving & competitive

We’ve just completed the latest research for our Flexible Asset PPA Market report. In this report we analyse and forecast key aspects of this market to detail how Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) are being used to support flexibile assets. Here, we look at some of the key headlines from the report.

What do we mean by the PPA market for flexible assets? We mean the agreements between flexible generators and offtakers (& optimisers) to trade and optimise the assets across available revenue streams, such as wholesale and balancing markets. 

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