The Commission has opened a 4-week consultation on how to facilitate the take-up of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) – long-term bilateral contracts typically concluded between generators and corporate consumers. This call for evidence will feed into the Commission’s work assessing the regulatory and non-regulatory barriers that hamper the development of PPAs with a view to publishing recommendations to EU countries on how to overcome these issues. The feedback period is open until the 20 of February 2026.
PPAs allow consumers to source their energy directly from generators and thereby limit their exposition to market fluctuations. The removal of barriers to PPAs was foreseen in the Renewable Energy Directive and the Electricity Regulation to facilitate the financing of new clean energy installations, while securing stable prices for consumers. The Commission has a legislative mandate to assess where barriers remain and guide EU countries on their removal. The assessment will focus on key issues, including access for small buyers, standardisation of contracts, cross-border contracts. This new recommendation document will build on the previous Commission guidance on facilitating PPAs, published in May 2022.