Negotiating and Documenting Corporate PPAs - Presented by Infocast

Get In-Depth Training in Corporate Power Purchase Agreements (“CPPAs”) to Get Your Piece of This Rapidly Growing Market

In recent years, corporate PPAs have represented an increasing renewable business development opportunity as corporate buyers look to reduce their environmental footprint and lower their energy costs. However, as C&I offtakers have become ever more savvy about negotiating favorable terms and ccepting less risk in deals, corporate PPAs have become more complex and demanding for renewable developers. As they incorporate hedges, and other arrangements to manage increasing risk it is increasingly necessary for developers to understand the critical elements of an agreement and how to translate risk into their contract terms.

Moreover, project developers need to hear directly from corporate buyers on how their risk appetite and other goals need to be accommodated in developing projects from the start and in negotiating contracts in order to effectively get deals done—and financed--in today’s market. Only those armed with the latest know-how on today’s cutting-edge structures in Corporate PPAs (including the utilization of government incentives and complex tax rules) will be able to succeed in this highly competitive arena.

Infocast’s Master Class, taught by experts actively transacting Corporate PPA’s will illustrate how to negotiate, structure, and document a Corporate PPA from beginning to end. It will take developers through the entire process from a look at emerging trends in PPA pricing, risk allocation, ESG factors, and structures to negotiating exceptional terms and fully executing viable and bankable deals.

CLASS TAKEAWAYS

 

Get tangible outcomes for immediate use and application!

  • Negotiate successful deals with corporates, while clearly understanding and controlling your firm’s downside risks in the process
  • Understand the constraints that must be accommodated to make deals happen in today’s markets—hearing directly from lenders, tax equity investors, hedge providers and corporate offtakers about their risk appetites, perspectives and capabilities
  • Ensure that every critical legal detail in the project documentation will be handled properly to fully protect your company’s position
  • Get a handle on the current “state of the art” in CPPA deals, including today’s latest deal innovations, what kind of power and other costs your projects need to currently deliver, and how such deals are performing

MASTER CLASS FEATURES

 

10+

Hours of Content

Expert-designed, highly-relevant curriculum

20+

Instructors

Learn from industry leaders and key decision makers

Live Participation

Live discussion and Q&A following every session

On-Demand

Participate live or at your own pace from anywhere, up to 30 days

Connect

Expand your professional network

INSTRUCTORS

 

  • Lead Instructor

    William H. Holmes
    Partner
    K&L GATES LLP

    Co-Lead Instructor

    Lana Le Hir
    Senior Associate
    K&L GATES LLP

    Contributing Instructors

    Adrian Anderson
    Senior Director
    MICROSOFT

    Tim Belden
    Principal
    ENERGY GPS LLC

    Aaron Binkley
    Director of Sustainability
    DIGITAL REALTY

    Erin Craig
    Vice President, Customer Solutions and Innovation
    3DEGREES




  • Contributing Instructors

    Danielle Decatur
    Director of Datacenter Environmental Sustainability
    MICROSOFT

    Erin Decker
    Director, Cleantech Client Management
    SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC

    James Douglass
    Partner
    K&L GATES LLP
    LONDON

    Tariq Fedda
    Counsel
    K&L GATES LLP
    MADRID

    Jared Friedman
    Vice President, Global Energy
    PROLOGIS

    Kenneth Gish
    Of Counsel
    K&L GATES LLP

    Teresa Hill
    Partner
    K&L GATES LLP

    Yuri Horwitz
    Chief Executive Officer
    SOL SYSTEMS






  • Contributing Instructors

    John King
    Vice President,
    Commercial Execution

    INVENERGY

    Melissa Peterson
    Vice President, Origination
    & Power Marketing, Onshore

    ORSTED ONSHORE
    NORTH AMERICA, LLC

    Kelly Snyder
    Senior Director of Origination
    for the US & Canada

    EDPR

    Ryan Spicer
    Sustainability Sr. Manager
    PEPSICO

    Danny Splettstosser
    Vice President, Origination & Investor Relations,
    Americas

    RES AMERICA
    DEVELOPMENTS, INC.

    Barrett Stambler
    Partner
    CREATIVE RENEWABLE SOLUTIONS, LLC

    Zach Starsia
    Director of Accounts
    LEVELTEN ENERGY

    Kai Zhang
    Special Counsel
    K&L GATES LLP


AGENDA

 

Live Q&A and discussion following each session


July 29, 2021 | 8:15 AM - 3:30 PM PDT

Session 1: Understanding Today’s Corporate Renewable Market
Session 2: Overview: The Evolution of Corporate PPA Structures
Session 3: Focus on Virtual Power Purchase Agreements (VPPAs)
Session 4: On Site Solar Corporate PPAs
Session 5: Important Corporate Protections to Consider When Negotiating a Corporate PPA

July 30, 2021 | 8:00 AM - 4:50 PM PDT

Session 6: Translating the US VPPA into a European VPPA
Session 7: Market Outlook 2021 - Identifying, Assessing, Allocating and Managing Risks
Session 8: How to incorporate Environmental and Social Justice Concerns into your PPAs
Session 9: Renewable Developers’ Perspectives—Understanding their Needs and Constraints
Session 10: Lessons from the Frontline: What Corporates Have Learned About Renewable Procurement
Session 11: Developing and Executing Your Corporate Renewable Energy Procurement Strategy
Session 12: Interactive Course Recap and Expert Roundtable


Nuanced, up-to-date, forward-looking, and contextually presented, the class expanded the depth of our firm’s competency for financial transactions.

- Greg Poulos, CEO, ArcVera Renewables


The Master Class was very efficient, educational, effective and productive, and I will do more of these regardless of if we are traveling and going to in-person.

- Peter Blood, Founder and Managing Partner, CYCLE

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