EPA Webinar on Solar Power Purchase Agreements

On Tuesday, July 28, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. Eastern time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Green Power Partnership will host a Webinar on solar power purchase agreements (SPPA). An SPPA is a financial arrangement in which a third-party developer owns, operates, and maintains a photovoltaic (PV) system and a host customer (i.e., a business, municipal government, or university) agrees to site the system on its roof or elsewhere on its property and purchase the system’s electric output for a pre-determined period. Participants will learn:

How SPPAs can overcome many of the traditional barriers to solar adoption
The benefits and challenges of an SPPA to the host customer
The SPPA model’s impact on the solar market
Who is doing SPPAs and why
Ideal host customer characteristics
How solar renewable energy certificates (SRECs) ownership affects a host customer’s carbon footprint and its ability to make environmental claims
The steps necessary for a successful SPPA

Click on the links below to access the presentation slides and Webinar recording:

Solar Power Purchase Agreements: Introduction (PDF) (9 pp., 602K, About PDF), James Critchfield, U.S. EPA
Markets & Trends: Solar Energy as a Service (PDF), (17 pp., 420K), Mark Culpepper, SunEdison
Solar Power Purchase Agreements (PDF) (11 pp., 80K), Mark Buckley, Vice President of Environmental Affairs, Staples
Recording of Webinar on Solar Power Purchase Agreements (Windows Media File) (66M) If you need help accessing this file, please contact Green Power Partnership for assistance.
Answers to questions attendees submitted that were not addressed during the SPPA Webinar Event (PDF) (13 pp., 235K)

The mention of any company or product during the Green Power Partnership Webinar neither constitutes nor implies endorsement by the EPA. EPA recommends that organizations do their own due diligence when evaluating a service or product supplier.

For further information on Solar Power Purchase Agreements (SPPA) please visit EPA's SPPA web site.

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EPA Webinar on Solar Power Purchase Agreements

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