Chart of the week | The real deal: Recent activity in the PPA market

In this ‘Chart of the week’, we outline the latest research from our PPA Market Deals Trackers. We provide this as part of our ‘Renewables PPA Market Share’ and ‘Flexible Asset PPA Market Report’.

Through this analysis, we track and record all public deals relating to the PPA market. This includes PPA deals, new entry into the market from offtakers and mergers or acquisitions of assets and offtaker portfolios. As a result of our tracking, we have observed a number of interesting trends for both markets. 

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