CPPAs

  • Energy storage and flexibility

    Unlocking routes to market

    On 19 January 2022, a webinar hosted by Cornwall Insight in partnership with the law firm Weightmans focused on routes to market for renewable projects that may not secure a contract during the fourth allocation round of the 'Contracts for Difference' (CfD) auction, which opened in December 2021. In the...

  • Energy storage and flexibility

    The future of power prices: Black swans and dragon kings

    Understanding the long-term trajectory of the wholesale market is critical to new generation assets and their investment viability. Here at Cornwall Insight, we support market participants in assessing the potential outlook for wholesale power markets through our long-term market Benchmark Power Curve service. We’ve just updated our latest curves out...

  • Low carbon generation

    Subsidy-free PPAs: Hostage to fortune or stable platform

    Our most recent Market Share: A Survey of the Renewables Market Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) shows that around 25GW of renewables projects access the wholesale market via an offtaker. An additional 5GW of flexible assets (i.e. gas and diesel peakers and storage) are likely operating under PPAs too, which is a view...

  • Low carbon generation

    Make my dreams come true: Ireland and Corporate PPAs

    Corporate Power Purchase Agreements (CPPAs) are very much in the news both internationally and in the Irish market. Amazon’s recent announcement of Ireland’s first unsubsidised CPPA, an agreement with the proposed 91.2MW Meenbog wind farm, is an exciting development. This deal follows the 4 February 2019 letter from Minister Bruton...