Energy Management, Efficiency & Sustainability
Power Purchase Agreements and Renewable Energy Contracts
This in-depth course develops directly applicable capability in Power Purchase Agreements and Renewable Energy Contracts. It connects PPA Structures and Project Context, Energy, Price, and Settlement, and Risk Allocation and Performance to the decisions, controls, and activities participants need to perform in their workplace.
Overview
Practical learning for workplace transfer.
This in-depth course develops directly applicable capability in Power Purchase Agreements and Renewable Energy Contracts. It connects PPA Structures and Project Context, Energy, Price, and Settlement, and Risk Allocation and Performance to the decisions, controls, and activities participants need to perform in their workplace. The five-module curriculum progresses toward PPA Negotiation Case, using evidence, scenarios, and work products appropriate to the subject.
Objectives
- Analyze ppa structures and project context, including physical, virtual, utility, corporate, sleeved, and merchant arrangements.
- Configure or structure energy, price, and settlement, including pay-as-produced, baseload, shaped, take-or-pay, and availability structures.
- Evaluate risk allocation and performance, including resource, curtailment, grid, availability, change in law, credit, and force majeure.
- Manage negotiation and bankability, including lender requirements and direct agreements.
- Apply ppa negotiation case, including analyze a term sheet and allocate key risks.
Target audience
- Professionals responsible for this subject area
- Managers, supervisors, and team leaders
- Analysts, specialists, engineers, or coordinators working with the relevant processes
- Project, implementation, assurance, or improvement team members
- Professionals preparing for broader responsibilities in this field
Program outline
A clear structure for the learning journey.
Program outline
Outline points are grouped in one designed block instead of being treated as separate module cards.
Module 1: PPA Structures and Project Context
Physical, virtual, utility, corporate, sleeved, and merchant arrangements
Project company, generator, offtaker, utility, and lender interests
Contract tenor, volume, delivery point, and conditions precedent
Module 2: Energy, Price, and Settlement
Pay-as-produced, baseload, shaped, take-or-pay, and availability structures
Fixed, indexed, floor, collar, and market-referenced price
Metering, imbalance, losses, invoices, and settlement disputes
Module 3: Risk Allocation and Performance
Resource, curtailment, grid, availability, change in law, credit, and force majeure
Performance guarantees, damages, security, and termination
Environmental attributes and certificate ownership
Module 4: Negotiation and Bankability
Lender requirements and direct agreements
Credit support, assignment, step-in, and cure rights
Compare risk price and contractual flexibility
Module 5: PPA Negotiation Case
Analyze a term sheet and allocate key risks
Calculate settlement under contrasting production outcomes
Prepare negotiation positions and fallback options
Materials provided
- ○ Course-specific presentation slides
- ○ Guided exercises, scenarios, or configured-environment activities appropriate to the subject
- ○ Course-specific worksheets, checklists, or calculation templates
- ○ Applied workplace case materials
- ○ 4D Certificate of Completion issued by 4D Training & Consultancy
- ○ Post-course support for implementation questions
Training Options
Programs can be delivered in-house, online, or in a blended format depending on your team's schedule, location, and learning objectives. When an external certificate or exam is included, certification rules and fees remain under the relevant awarding body's policies, while 4D provides the training and preparation support.
Why choose 4D
4D Training & Consultancy adapts the program to the client’s operating environment. Delivery combines structured explanation with subject-specific analysis, exercises, and implementation decisions so participants can transfer the learning to real responsibilities without implying vendor authorization.
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