Course Description
The Power Purchase Agreement is the contract on which every power project stands or falls. It determines whether a project is bankable, how risk is shared between generator and offtaker, and ultimately whether it gets financed at all. As Central Asia, Africa and South Asia tender renewables and storage at scale, PPA competence has become one of the highest-value skills in the energy sector.
This course develops a working understanding of PPAs and how they are structured, negotiated and managed. Participants learn PPA types and structures, pricing and tariff mechanisms, risk allocation, bankability requirements from a lender's perspective, key clauses and their commercial consequences, corporate and virtual PPAs, and the negotiation and management of PPAs through the project lifecycle.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the role of the PPA in power project development
- Describe PPA types: utility, corporate, physical and virtual
- Understand pricing and tariff structures
- Apply risk allocation principles between parties
- Understand bankability and the lender's perspective
- Analyse key PPA clauses and their consequences
- Understand corporate and virtual PPA structures
- Approach PPA negotiation and lifecycle management
How the course is delivered
The course combines PPA structure and commercial logic with practical clause analysis and negotiation exercises. Participants work through risk allocation, bankability and tariff scenarios using realistic power project cases.
The programme connects the contract to the financing decision, reflecting how PPAs are actually evaluated by lenders and investors.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Project developers and commercial managers
- Utility and offtaker personnel
- Energy lawyers and contract managers
- Finance and investment professionals in energy
- Anyone negotiating or managing PPAs
Daily programme
- The role of the PPA in project development
- The project structure around the PPA
- PPA types and structures
- Parties, roles and the offtaker
- Pricing and tariff structures
- Indexation and escalation
- Risk allocation between parties
- Volume, price and performance risk
- Bankability and the lender's perspective
- Key clauses and commercial consequences
- Termination, curtailment and change in law
- Security, guarantees and credit support
- Corporate and virtual PPAs
- Renewables and storage PPAs
- Negotiation strategy
- Lifecycle management and workshop
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
