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BBDF 2026 held a panel on hybrid PPAs, with panelists all familiar with the relatively easy days of solar PPAs. Now that projects are increasingly taking place at the same location and the desire of banks and financiers is to tie up part of BESS revenues in toll contracts and not have them operated 100% by merchants, the context for the conversation is to look at how industrial buyers are developing.
Also adding to the mix is that standalone solar projects, backed by standard long-term offtake agreements, are losing their bankability. Adding a battery is increasingly not optional.
The panel included Christoph Strassner, CEO of MaxSolar; Alexander Straube, director of flexibility and structured transactions at EnBW; Julius Kies of DAL Deutsche Anlagen-Leasing; and Pieter van der Meulen, senior account manager at LevelTen Energy.
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