{"id":6987,"date":"2026-03-24T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rautner.com\/?p=6987"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:14:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:14:28","slug":"corporate-ppas-price-certainty-in-volatile-markets-without-the-complexity-of-physical-delivery-%f0%9f%93%88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rautner.com\/en\/corporate-ppas-price-certainty-in-volatile-markets-without-the-complexity-of-physical-delivery-%f0%9f%93%88\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate PPAs: Price certainty in volatile markets \u2014 without the complexity of physical delivery.\ud83d\udcc8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"226\" data-end=\"506\">For industrial companies, electricity price stability is a critical competitive factor. Yet not every business can or wants to restructure its physical supply chain. This is where the virtual PPA (vPPA) comes in \u2014 a structure we examine in detail in Chapter 5 of our new handbook.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"508\" data-end=\"608\">A vPPA operates as a purely financial instrument, typically structured as a fixed-for-floating swap:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"610\" data-end=\"1013\">\n<li data-section-id=\"3dwikj\" data-start=\"610\" data-end=\"707\"><strong data-start=\"612\" data-end=\"662\">No change to the existing supply relationship:<\/strong> Physical power procurement remains separate.<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"1oqcdym\" data-start=\"708\" data-end=\"887\"><strong data-start=\"710\" data-end=\"745\">Financial settlement mechanism:<\/strong> Difference payments between the agreed fixed PPA price and the market price help stabilise energy costs and provide greater budget certainty.<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"hxn8ne\" data-start=\"888\" data-end=\"1013\"><strong data-start=\"890\" data-end=\"918\">Sustainability benefits:<\/strong> Guarantees of origin (GoOs) are often included, supporting the achievement of Scope 2 targets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"1015\" data-end=\"1148\">We advise corporate clients on negotiating these complex derivative structures in a legally robust and commercially practical manner.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1015\" data-end=\"1148\"><strong>Chapter 5 \u2013 Financial PPAs (RDB\/Manz):<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/rdb.manz.at\/document\/1821_1_ppas_kap0005\">Rautner\/Winter: RDB Rechtsdatenbank<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1150\" data-end=\"1229\">#CorporateStrategy #RiskManagement #vPPA #EnergyFinance #Industry #CorporateLaw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For industrial companies, electricity price stability is a critical competitive factor. Yet not every business can or wants to restructure its physical supply chain. This is where the virtual PPA (vPPA) comes in \u2014 a structure we examine in detail in Chapter 5 of our new handbook. A vPPA operates as a purely financial instrument,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,45],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rautner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rautner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rautner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rautner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rautner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6987"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rautner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7002,"href":"https:\/\/www.rautner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987\/revisions\/7002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rautner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rautner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rautner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rautner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}