New policy paper published: RE-Source's corporate PPA guide

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1 July 2025

At an event in the European Parliament co-hosted with MEP Giorgio Gori (S&D, IT), RE-Source launched its new policy paper ‘RE-Source’s corporate PPA guide: how to help more corporates sign renewable power purchase agreements’.

PPAs appear in the Clean Industrial Deal and Affordable Energy Action Plan. The paper defines PPAs, as well as what drives and enables the development of them. What challenges remain across Europe which are holding back PPA markets, and what are the potential solutions to overcome these?

PPA activity is strongly influenced by political and wider energy system conditions. But the potential is huge: business and policymakers must work cohesively to unlock private financing of renewable energy and industry decarbonisation.

In the recent European Parliament resolution on energy-intensive industries, for which I served as rapporteur, I called on the Commission to urgently address the barriers hindering the spread of long-term contracts, particularly for SMEs. This is essential to reduce energy price volatility and costs for European industry. We need public guarantee instruments to facilitate the matching of supply and demand and to reduce reliance on daily markets, which are heavily influenced by gas prices. In the short and medium term, this is the most effective way to decouple the price of electricity from that of fossil fuels.

— Mr Gori MEP

Our new paper intends to support stakeholders in Brussels and across Europe to understand the barriers to the uptake of corporate PPAs. PPA activity is highly sensitive to political and energy system dynamics. Policymakers must focus on removing renewables bottlenecks and ensuring regulatory stability. Then, we will see more PPAs being signed.

— Annie Scanlan, Managing Director at RE-Source Platform

Key recommendations from the paper:

Unlock renewables enablers: speed up permitting, unlock grids, and don’t change electricity market design rules.
Reduce risk: rapidly roll out storage, accelerate electrification, and combine renewable technologies to reduce risks from negative prices.
Focus on non-distortive measures: recognise PPAs across EU carbon accounting rules, don’t regulate contract terms, put in place state-backed guarantee schemes to reduce credit risk, design non-distortive state-support schemes and combine with PPAs, and modernise the guarantee of origin/energy certificate system.

About RE-Source

RE-Source Platform accelerates corporate renewable energy procurement through growing the pool of corporate buyers in Europe, via removing barriers and promoting tools like, but not limited to, PPAs, onsite generation, and renewable energy certificates. We make it easier for corporates to procure and use renewables. This mission intends to support corporate decarbonisation, in support of Europe’s renewable energy and net neutrality targets. The Platform pools resources and coordinates activities to promote a better framework for corporate renewable energy sourcing at EU and national level.