Purchasing power – 04-2025

Corporate renewable energy buyers have provided a welcome boost to the solar industry in recent years. PV accounted for roughly half of total energy capacities by corporates in 2024, as S&P Global Commodity Insights columnists Caroline Zhu and Bruno Brunetti write in this month’s edition, which explores power purchase agreements (PPAs).

Despite market dynamism, European PPA activity has slowed. Even Europe’s historic PPA leader Spain has been affected, as pv magazine Spain’s Pilar Sanchez Molina writes.