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Bifacial’s impact, PPA maturation and green hydrogen: Five takeaways from SFIE 2021 A project in the Netherlands using Jolywood’s bifacial TOPCon modules, completed in 2019. Europe’s solar financing market is evolving at rapid speed, driven by changing dynamics and aided by technological advancements at the asset level. Here PV Tech re-caps the five most significant takeaways from the conference’s opening days. Standardised O&M contracts may not be suitable in the bifacial era Projects using bifacial panels continue to grow in prominence, and now most developers will at least run projections on adding bifaciality to projects. Both Dupont and module manufacturer JinkoSolar, speaking during the conference, referenced significant growth in this area. ....
Power price volatility driving demand for shorter, more sophisticated PPAs Email Shorter power purchase agreements (PPA) could become more commonplace in Europe’s solar sector as developers strive to bring on more corporations and utilities as offtakers, according to a panel of industry leaders. Lee Moscovitch, partner at UK-based asset manager Greencoat Capital, told panelists at the Solar Finance and Investment Europe online event today (4 February) that the UK market is starting to see prospective offtakers asking for shorter PPA lengths with more sophisticated price structures to mitigate the risk associated with price volatility in the energy market. “What we’re starting to see more creeping in is either shorter term PPAs with fixed price, people asking you to price [a] month ahead, or baseload pricing, looking at shaping cost ahead and who takes that risk,” he said, adding there has also been work in “pricing in floors and discoun ....