Sustainable Energy Strategies for Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs)

Marios Stanitsas () and Konstantinos Kirytopoulos
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Marios Stanitsas: School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Zografos, Greece
Konstantinos Kirytopoulos: School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Zografos, Greece

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 8, 1-19

Abstract: During the last years, renewable energy strategies for sustainable development perform as best practices and strategic insights necessary to support large scale organizations’ approach to sustainability. Power purchase agreements (PPAs) enhance the value of such initiatives. A renewable PPA contract delivers green energy efficiently to organizations that seek sustainability benefits. Consequently, various approaches that define PPAs are utilized to motivate both interested parties to participate in such deals. Highlighting sustainability tactics during negotiations and identifying relative impacts during the projects’ implementation are both necessary. Following the methodological approach of this study, open-ended criteria are used to identify vital negotiation pricing patterns that permit practitioners to deliver win–win outcomes. The aim of this research is to introduce a multicriteria decision analysis-based method, namely PROMETHEE, to evaluate the implementation of sustainability-related strategies using PPAs. This paper proposes a method for ranking alternative sustainable energy strategies in order for decision-makers to be able to select the most appropriate PPA structure for an organization.

Keywords: PPAs; sustainability; indicators; MCDA; renewables; construction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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