Note: Grant funding comes from Skillnet Ireland through the Irish National Training fund, and, as a result, is ONLY available to residents of the Republic of Ireland who work as a sole trader, or for a private or semi-state commercial company registered in ROI. If you are not eligible for the discount, you will still have the option to enrol by paying the full course fee. Please read Eligibility Criteria.
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This course will provide participants with a deep technical understanding of Corporate Power Purchase Agreements (CPPA’s) as well as real world insights into the challenges and risks associated with CPPA’s.
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.
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 will include the following:
- What is a PPA?
- Importance of PPA’s
- Renewable Energy & PPA’s
- Benefits of 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.
Generators, offtaker, corporates, lender, investors, advisors.
Barry Gavin
Chair of FuturEnergy Ireland
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.
