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Fast-changing PPA landscape

Power purchase agreements are ideal risk-management tools, given that electricity price volatility is the new normal and renewables uptake is a matter of urgency due to untenable Russian gas dependency. pv magazine sat down with Andy Sommer, team leader of fundamental analysis and modeling at Swiss trader Axpo Solutions, to discuss the situation of prices and PPAs in Europe.

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pv magazine

06 May 2022

Image: Axpo Solutions

Wholesale electricity prices in Europe have been rising – a trend which started before the war in Ukraine, but is no doubt exacerbated by it. How long will it continue? It’s impossible to tell of course, nobody has a crystal ball and under current conditions predicting in the near term, let alone the more distant …

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