Wind-PPAs
Your Fast Lane to Fixed-Prices
Your wind assets are approaching the end of their subsidy period? Then it’s time to claim your connection ticket for a continued profitable journey! As one of Europe’s leading marketers of renewable energy, we offer highly competitive Wind PPAs across Europe.
Your Ticket to the Future
Fixed-Price PPAs with 1–3year terms
Many wind farms will soon move beyond their subsidy scheme. Our Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) provide a dependable way to continue operations or seamlessly bridge the time until repowering. With a fixed-price agreement, you receive a guaranteed price per megawatt hour – providing planning security for the future of your wind farm.
Continued operation: We purchase the wind power you generate and pay you a fixed price per MWh for the agreed contract term (pay-as-produced). We take on the balancing risk.
Attractive fixed-price: To determine the best possible conditions for your wind assets, our price calculation incorporates forward contracts, short-term trading, and corporate PPAs. Transfer negative price risk to NEXT – or keep it to boost your fixed price.
Full-Service: We handle not only the trading of your electricity but also forecasting your wind production and taking on the role of the balance responsible party, including all associated obligations.
Guarantee of origin: The green electricity quality of your wind farm is also compensated. We take care of marketing your guarantees of origin.
Expertise + Security
A PPA Partner Without Compromise
At Next, you get the best of both worlds: as a leading marketer of renewable energy, we have one of the most experienced and agile 24/7 trading teams in the European market. At the same time, as a 100% subsidiary of the Shell Group, we offer maximum security and financial strength for your wind PPA. At Next, you get the best of both worlds: as a leading marketer of renewable energy, we have one of the most experienced and agile 24/7 trading teams in the European market. At the same time, as a 100% subsidiary of the Shell Group, we offer maximum security and financial strength for your wind PPA.
All markets: Our trading team is active across all relevant European power markets – from EPEX Spot and the EEX to the balancing energy markets of the transmission system operators
Large wind portfolio: With extensive experience in marketing major international wind farms, we understand the specific requirements of wind power trading.
Cross selling potential: Location concepts, crossmarket strategies for flexible assets and storage, and balancing energy – Next offers a full suite of marketing solutions for renewable energy.
Wind PPAs across Europe
Get in touch!
We not only bring together our full trading, technical, and energymarket expertise under one roof; we also operate offices across several European countries, giving us deep insight into the specific conditions and regulatory frameworks of your local power market. You can submit a request via our central contact form or get in touch directly with our teams in Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland or France.
A selection of our PPA projects
MoveOn Energy: Next Kraftwerke is responsible, in collaboration with Shell, for marketing the PPAs of the Witznitz energy park, the largest interconnected solar park in Europe. As Balance Responsible Party, we are also responsible for steering and balancing measures.
Hollandse Kust Noord Wind farm (HKN): Next Kraftwerke valorizes part of the electricity generated by one of Europe‘s largest offshore wind farms. In addition to trading on the short-term markets, Next takes care of grid management and adapts electricity production in the event of fluctuations in market prices. With an annual output of around 3.3 TWh, HKN wind farm contributes around 3% of the Netherlands‘ electricity needs.
FAQ Wind Power PPA
Frequently Asked Questions
Here you will find answers to many questions relating to wind power PPAs. We are also happy to support you personally. Just get in touch with us!
A Wind PPA, or Power Purchase Agreement, is an electricity supply contract concluded between an electricity offtaker and a wind farm operator. It defines the terms under which the electricity is purchased – including the amount of energy to be delivered, the agreed pricing structure, and the commercial and balancing related settlement processes.
A Wind PPA provides operators with certainty regarding electricity volumes and pricing – a key benefit in today’s volatile energy markets. For operators of assets whose governmental support scheme ends, PPAs have become an essential commercialization instrument. With a fixed-price agreement, operators can secure the economically viable continued operation of their wind farm and bridge nsubsidized periods until repowering.
The price of a fixed-price PPA is primarily based on the baseload price in the forward market – essentially reflecting the market value of the asset. This value results from expected forward market prices, adjusted for the difference between the plant’s expected feed in profile and the average monthly market value.
Taking into account marketing costs, balancing and forecasting expenses, as well as risk premiums, an offer price is then calculated based on the current forward market levels. Finally, the value of the guarantees of origin (GoOs) is added to determine the final PPA price.
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We are Next Kraftwerke
As one of Europe's largest virtual power plants, we connect and market thousands of decentralized electricity producers, consumers, and storage facilities. We bring together all our marketing expertise under one roof: our teams from electricity trading, technology, and product development work together with sales and customer service to ensure that you get the most out of your wind power.