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Hourly matching poses PV challenges

Growing corporate interest in hourly matching power purchase agreements (PPAs) is expected to drive the pairing of PV, wind, and battery energy storage systems (BESS), with potential broader impacts on the energy procurement market, as Neil Ford reports.

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pv magazine

01 Apr 2025

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Cheap electricity from daytime solar may have financial appeal for corporates but critics have called for companies to embrace time matching to further reduce fossil fuel reliance. | Photo: Enel

Many US electricity buyers have used PPAs to run on clean power, filling gaps by buying renewable energy certificates generated by clean power operators. Such corporate and institutional sustainability goals drove 42% of the solar and wind power capacity installed in the United States between 2014 and 2023.Critics of companies such as Amazon, which covers …

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