Date: 27 September 2023
Time: 09:30 - 16:00 
Venue: Online

Course Overview 

CPPA's have a key role in meeting Corporate and National Decarbonisation targets. CPPA’s are still a relatively new concept in the Irish market, but the goal is that CPPA’s will represent 15%. 

This course is aimed at individual who may be considering entering a CPPAs (as a generator, sponsor, offtaker advisor or lender). It will provide participants with a deep technical understanding of CPPA’s as well as real world insights into the challenges and risks associated with CPPA’s. 

Course Objectives and Learning Outcomes 

The objective of the course will be to give the student a detailed understanding of CPPA’s, including the purpose, parties to the agreement, benefits, importance of Green tags/GO’s, delivery structures, legal framework, challenges, risks, risk mitigation, pricing, evolution of CPPA’s and role CPPA’s have to play in meeting our climate targets. 

Course Content 

Course content will include the following:

• What is a PPA?
• Importance of PPA’s
• Renewable Energy & PPA’s
• Benefits of PPA’s
• Types of PPA.
• Currency of Green Power- REC’s, GO’s etc
• Key Elements of Good PPA
• The PPA Process
• Corporate PPA V Utility PPA
• Risks with VPPA
• Factors to consider when Negotiating a PPA
• Forms of PPA Contracts 
• Evolution of Corp PPA’s.

Who Should Attend 

Generators, offtaker, corporates, lender, investors, advisors.

About the Trainer 

Barry Gavin has over 20 years’ experience in the renewable energy business developing, financing, constructing, and managing renewable assets. He has experience of negotiating both traditional PPA’s and CPPA’s. Barry is the Chair of FuturEnergy Ireland a non-executive director of an investment fund which owns a number of wind assets.

Barry is an Adjunct lecturer in the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School where he lectures in Renewable Energy and Sustainable Finance at a master’s level. He also delivers the University of Galway annual Summer School in Sustainable Finance, again to master’s students.

Barry is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered accountants. He holds a BA in Accounting and Finance and an MBA, from DCU. Barry is a member of the institute of Directors and a graduate of the Oxford University Said Business school.