Power Purchase Agreements (PPA)

Course length: 3 days 

Course description

This course will help the participants to be able to know the
details on becoming a PPA negotiation practioner and return with a toolbox of
checklists covering the many facets of the PPA process. This course runs through all forms of energy risk from the
market, through to credit, liquidity, operational with a particular focus on
regulatory risks in the key power markets of Africa and a comparison to Europe
and UK. At the end of this course, participants will be able to negotiate or
review a PPA.

Who should Attend

Personnel
from:

·       
Electric Regulation and ministries

·       
Utility companies

·       
Banks

·       
Energy supply companies (Oil, Gas, Coal, renewable)

·       
Law Firms

·       
Consultancy Firms

·       
ERP Contracting companies

 What you Will Learn

·       
Overview of how power markets work

·       
Understand how to anticipate and mitigate risk
through the PPA process

·       
Negotiating a PPA

·       
Key provisions of a PPA and its impact on project financing

·       
What banks and investors want

·       
Understand power purchase agreement regulation

·       
Understand credit risk in the PPA process

 Course Outline

Day
1: Selling and Buying Power Purchase Agreements

·       
Speed Networking

·       
Generation Assets

·       
Tool1: Cost Data Bank & Levelised Cost of Electricity

·       
Selling a PPA: Power Generation Assets Overview

·       
Buying a PPA

·       
Main Types of Power Station Fuel

 Day 2: Market & Regulatory Risk

 •        
How market works

•        
Electricity Price Risks and How They Mutate

•        
Case Study: Origin
Energy

•        
Workshop: PPA Negotiation

•        
Power Purchase Agreement Regulation

•        
Workshop Captains of Collateral:
How to monitor credit margining capital for
your PPA.

•        
Dynamics of Power Markets Across the World

•        
The Role of Power Purchase Agreements in Investment

•        
Case Study: Bank Lending to the European and UK
Power Markets in 2002.

 Day 3: Trading Power Purchase Agreements

 ·       
Introduction to the Trading Floor