Hybrid for Everyone: How Contracting Innovation Is Unlocking Hybrid PPA Success for All

Market Insights
March 4, 2020

Clean energy buyers in Europe face increasing exposure to market volatility and negative price risk.

To mitigate these challenges, hybrid PPAs — which combine generation with storage — have emerged as an essential strategic tool. But understanding these deal types can be a complicated task.

LevelTen Energy has published a comprehensive guide detailing the most common hybrid PPA structures and their key advantages.

The report explores:

  • Contracting simplification: The details of five distinct hybrid contracting approaches that simplify the role of storage.
  • Key deal structures: How specific arrangements function, including Green BESS, standalone TBx, PPA + TBx, Hybrid Floating Block, and Hybrid Custom Block.
  • Aligning with strategic goals: Which structures work best for specific buyer priorities, such as ensuring physical delivery shapes, eliminating volume risk, or mitigating negative-price risk.
  • Financial enhancements: The financial impact of integrating battery energy storage systems (BESS) into PPA portfolios.
  • Impact on Guarantees of Origin (GOs): How different contract types affect the traceability and delivery of GOs.

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LevelTen Energy

LevelTen Energy is the leading provider of transaction infrastructure for the clean energy transition, connecting buyers, sellers, and financiers through an international marketplace powered by trusted data and automation. The LevelTen Marketplace supports power purchase agreements (PPAs), energy attribute credits (EACs), capacity, hybrid PPAs, granular certificate trading, and storage, so organizations can execute and manage clean energy transactions with confidence. With a network of more than 1,300 project developers in 35 countries, LevelTen is advancing carbon-free energy markets by making them more transparent, liquid, and accessible.

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