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WHITE PAPER: Locational Marginal Emissions
Purchasing renewable energy is a means decarbonization, but renewable energy projects are not all equal when it comes to cutting carbon. Locational Marginal Emissions (LMEs) measure carbon emission avoided by renewable energy projects at the most granular spatial level: the electrical node where energy is injected into the grid.
PRESS RELEASE: REsurety Adds Hourly Price and Generation Granularity to REmap
Texas crisis illustrates how hourly generation during high-priced hours spells the difference between big wins and big losses for clean energy buyers and sellers.
POWER, FINANCE & RISK: Big data gets smarter on vPPAs
“We were delighted by the contribution [vPPAs] made to our sustainability goals but were frustrated by the financial volatility of the settlement payments and the limited ability we had to predict or manage that volatility,” wrote Kenneth Davies when he was director of energy portfolio management at Microsoft. Working with insurer Allianz and analytics firm REsurety, Davies came up with solutions including the proxy generation PPA, the volume firming agreement and the settlement guarantee agreement.
POWER, FINANCE & RISK: Iron Mountain supes up vPPAs with extra hedges
Data management company Iron Mountain has layered additional hedge contracts onto virtual power purchase agreements that it signed with two wind farms in 2016 and 2017 as it seeks to mitigate various risks associated with the popular renewable energy contracts. REsurety provided the valuation and risk analytics for the transactions, and will serve as calculation agent for tracking and settlement over the lives of the contracts.
PRESS RELEASE: Iron Mountain teams with Birch Infrastructure & REsurety to de-risk clean energy procurement
REsurety helps Iron Mountain limit its exposure to variable weather and power markets, to achieve both sustainability and financial goals while investing in offsite renewable energy.
Coronavirus disruption just the latest example of “new normal” for energy markets
The only certainty in renewable energy markets is uncertainty. CEO Lee Taylor shares his insights on tools available today to understand and manage risk – tools like REmap, Volume Firming Agreements, and Settlement Guarantee Agreements.
Risk Mitigation for Corporate Renewable PPAs
REsurety contributes a chapter on how to manage risk in virtual PPAs through Volume Firming Agreements in this new report by RE-Source, a joint platform of WindEurope, SolarPower Europe, the RE100, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
WHITE PAPER: Accounting Primer for C&I Renewable Energy Buyers
For C&I Buyers looking to mitigate risks in their PPAs, CohnReznick provides new accounting guidance on Volume Firming Agreements and Settlement Guarantee Agreements in a whitepaper co-published with REsurety.
Covariance risk: What it is and how to manage it
Norton Rose Fulbright’s June 2019 Project Finance NewsWire features an interview with Lee Taylor, REsurety’s CEO on covariance risk and how to manage it. It starts on Page 21. The article is based on a Feb. 2019 Currents Podcast.