
Paul Detering, CEO of Tioga Energy, gives a thorough introduction to Purchase Power Agreements (PPA). Through the use of long-term power purchase agreements (PPA) for renewable energy, Tioga Energy is able to accelerate access to clean energy. This lecture in part 1 of a three part lecture. You can find links to the other two parts below. In his lecture at this year's Intersolar, Paul gave a great historical overview of PPA, briefly defined what PPA is and gave a projection of PPA's prospect. A PPA is a great alternative for a customer who wants to benefit from solar power, but does not want to pay for the solar installation or does not want to manage their own solar power. A PPA company would arrange the funding and solar installation on the customer's property, and that PPA company would own and operate the solar, and they would sell the power to the customer under a long term PPA contract of typically 20 years. The costumer continues to have a relationship with the utility company so that excess electricity produced gets sold to the utility company and the client gets credit, and when the client needs extra electricity past what their solar panels provide they can purchase that from their utility company. An astounding statistic mentioned by Paul is that 75% of non residential US solar installations are currently completed using a PPA structure. Paul was a panel member on "Future of the Commercial Solar PPA" at "Growth Opportunities in the New PV Market: Projects <b>...</b>
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