Master Thesis Idea

The Energy market is filled with different kinds of PPAs - Power Purchase Agreements. A PPA is a contractual agreement between energy buyers and sellers. In short, it's the way companies sell and buy energy from renewable sources.

The currently most common kind of PPA for Solar is PAP - Pay as Produced. It means that the buyer buys any energy that the solar park produces and at the time that it is produced.

Another form of PPA is Baseload where the buyer agrees to buy a determined volume of energy for every hour over the year. Profile and volume risks the sit with the seller, because they have to deliver the agreed energy no matter what. If there’s low production and the seller cannot meet its obligations through its plant, the agreed volume will be sourced from the spot market. Baseload PPAs becomes more and more common as an Energy market matures.

Our thesis idea is to look at the valuation of Baseload PPAs. How is the pricing determined? And then to look forward into how Energy Storage might mitigate the profile and volume risks.

Master Thesis at HPSolartech

When you write your thesis together with us at HPSolartech we provide you with a supervisor from our staff. You are responsible for managing your own work and mainly drive your own progress but you also get the support you need from us.

We provide you with a desk at one of our offices where you can work but you can do most of the work remote.

If your thesis require specific equipment, travels or other expenses we discuss that and cover costs as agreed.

At the end of your thesis, provided that you pass :), we pay you a onetime compensation of 25 000 SEK.