Overview
- Date:Thursday, December 05, 2019
- Time:02:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
- Duration:1 hour
In this new world awash in low-priced renewables and ever-expanding corporate clean energy targets, it's increasingly important that power buyers understand how to evaluate offsite power purchase agreement (PPA) contract economics.
To date, PPA value assessment methodologies have largely fallen into two categories. One approach, where a buyer places faith in a vendor's forward power curve, is overly simplistic; these curves have historically overstated value, leading buyers to ignore underlying market drivers and to under-appreciate the range of potential PPA outcomes. Conversely, the second approach is overly complex. Here, a vendor builds a large "black box" production cost model, long on precision but likely short on accuracy and insights.
Both models lead buyers to select PPAs without fully appreciating which factors drive value, where the risk truly resides, and how to compare risk and value to identify the best available transaction. Fortunately, assessing value and risk isn't rocket science. In this webinar, hear experts from LevelTen Energy and Energy GPS set the record straight about how to quantify market risk embedded in every PPA. You'll learn about a comprehensive, state-of-the-art valuation framework that accounts for the interplay between three simple, but important, wholesale market concepts:
- Natural gas price
- Heat rate
- Renewable shape risk
Registration is now closed for this event. If you would like to receive a recorded version of the webinar, please contact us.
Speakers
Bryce Smith
Founder and CEO
LevelTen Energy
Bryce is the founder and CEO of LevelTen Energy, a global renewable energy marketplace and procurement platform. LevelTen reduces the cost, complexity and risk of renewable energy PPAs by connecting buyers and sellers through analytics, aggregation and process best practices. An industry professional with nearly 20 years' experience in renewable energy, Bryce has demonstrated success designing and leading new venutres. In 2009, Vryce co-founded OneEnergy Renewables, a leading developer of utility-scale solar projects
Prior to OneEnergy, Bryce led the Bonneville Environmental Foundation's nationwide investment in clean power projects. Bryce serves on the Advisory Board of REBA (The Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance), a membership association for buyers of renewable energy across the US.
Timothy Belden
Principal
Energy GPS LLC
Tim co-founded EnergyGPS LLC in 2009. Energy GPS provides analytics for wholesale electricity and natural gas traders on a subscription basis and provides consulting services to a broad range of customers in the renewable power space. Tim's expertise lies where intermittent resources intersect with wholesale electricity markets, bringing insights to customers to help them better understand value and risk. Prior to starting Energy GPS, Tim held a variety of positions in the energy industry dating back to 1992.
At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory he authored papers analyzing state and federal electricity policies. He held energy trading positions at Williams, Portland General Electric, Enron, and UBS. Originally from Upstate New York, Tim and his family live in Portland, Oregon. Tim earned a BA from Hamilton College and a Masters in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley.
Moderator: Debra Chanil
Research & Content Director
Smart Energy Decisions
Debra has more than 25 years of experience in market research and content development. In her current role, she manages all SED content development and leads SED's exclusive energy industry research including The State of Corporate Renewable Energy Sourcing and the upcoming State of Distributed Energy Resources.
Prior to joining Smart Energy Decisions in 2017, Debra was research director of retail & CPG insights for EnsembleIQ and Stagnito Business Information, where she conducted editorial, sales, and marketing research for a variety of B2B media brands covering the retail sector as well as for custom research projects. Debra also worked as research director for Nielsen Business Media and VNU/Bill Communications.
