Who Bears the Risk? Innovative PPA Structures for Negative Price Protection
Time: 17:10 - 17:50
Date: Tuesday 3rd February 2026
Theatre: Stream One
Synopsis
Power Purchase Agreements are evolving rapidly to address market challenges like negative pricing and intermittency. Leading offtakers, developers, and intermediaries will share approaches to allocating negative price risk in PPA structures that remain bankable while protecting both parties.
- Contractual mechanisms for allocating negative price risk
- Pricing structures that account for increasing negative price events
- Volume flexibility approaches that mitigate negative price exposure
- Market-specific PPA innovations addressing local pricing challenges
- Strategies to address Solar’s dramatic value decline from 100% to 50% of wholesale market prices across Europe
- Analysis of the doubling frequency of negative pricing hours and projections through 2027
- Case studies of successfully implemented negative price protection structures
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