Course 02 of 20 · Power Origination and PPA Desk Academy

PPA Types & Delivery Structures

Stage A, Origination foundations. Level 1 of 10.

The taxonomy of delivery routes, covering on-site, private wire, sleeved, grid-delivered and virtual, and what separates each legally and operationally.

119 chapters · 11 modules · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · builds on: Course 01

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How a chapter is delivered

One chapter is one idea taken to the point of use

Each chapter covers one idea to the point where you can use it, and comes two ways: a narrated explainer, and a deep dive audio discussion of around thirty minutes that works the same material at depth.

Self-paced throughout, and the same chapters can be taught as a cohort. Chapters run in order: each one assumes only what the chapters before it taught, and capability belonging to a later course is named and deferred rather than half-covered.

Curriculum

11 modules · 119 chapters

Open any module for its full chapter list, in teaching order.

M0 What a Delivery Route Decides Ch 1-10
  1. The Route Question Sits Before the Price Question
  2. The Seat Every Chapter Is Written From
  3. Five Delivery Routes Named Once, Then Taken Apart
  4. What All Five Routes Share
  5. Electrons, Title and Money as Three Separate Flows
  6. Why Two Deals Called the Same Thing Are Not
  7. The Working Vocabulary of Routes and Parties
  8. Permission Comes Before Preference
  9. What Each Route Hands On to a Later Course
  10. Reading an Enquiry to Find Its Route
M1 The Tests That Separate the Routes Ch 11-20
  1. Does Any Electricity Reach This Buyer At All
  2. Whose Wires the Electricity Travels Along
  3. Who Holds the Supply Licence or an Exemption
  4. Who Carries Balance Responsibility for the Volume
  5. Where Title Passes and What the Buyer Then Owns
  6. Is the Buyer a Party to the Generator's Contract
  7. Counting the Contracts a Structure Really Creates
  8. The Measurement Point Each Route Invoices Against
  9. Six Tests Applied to One Real Structure
  10. A Classification Sheet for the Deal File
M2 On-Site Generation Inside the Buyer's Boundary Ch 21-31
  1. Generation Behind the Buyer's Boundary Meter
  2. The Roof the Buyer Does Not Own
  3. Occupation Rights the Generator Must Secure
  4. The Boundary Meter as the Edge of the Deal
  5. Self-Consumed Volume and What It Displaces
  6. The Surplus Nobody Contracted For
  7. Contract Term Against Tenure of the Site
  8. Landlord, Tenant and the Party That Consumes
  9. Self-Consumption Regimes, Named by Market
  10. Net Metering and Net Billing Are Not a Power Purchase Agreement
  11. When On-Site Capacity Cannot Cover the Site
M3 Private Wire and the Direct Connection Ch 32-42
  1. A Cable Built Between Two Private Parties
  2. Private Networks and Embedded Networks Compared
  3. Crossing Land That Belongs to Somebody Else
  4. Wayleaves, Easements and Statutory Powers
  5. Who Owns, Operates and Repairs the Wire
  6. The Single Buyer a Private Wire Locks You To
  7. Top-Up and Standby Supply Behind the Wire
  8. Supplying Without a Full Licence
  9. Captive Generation as a Statutory Category
  10. When the Private Wire Fails
  11. Private Wire Against Grid Delivery, Honestly Compared
M4 Grid-Delivered Physical Supply Ch 43-54
  1. Delivery Across the Public Network
  2. Why a Generator Cannot Simply Invoice a Factory
  3. The Licensed Supplier as a Necessary Party
  4. The Sleeve Named, Its Mechanics Deferred
  5. Two Contracts, Three Parties, One Meter
  6. What the Supplier Must Still Provide
  7. Pass-Through Against Independently Priced Supply
  8. Utility Programmes That Package a Route
  9. Open Access and Wheeling as a Statutory Right
  10. Direct Marketing of Output Into the Market
  11. The Buyer That Holds Its Own Market Access
  12. Grid Delivery and the Claim It Supports
M5 The Virtual Route: Money Without Electrons Ch 55-66
  1. A Contract That Delivers Nothing
  2. Why the Buyer Keeps Its Existing Supplier
  3. The Reference Price as the Only Link
  4. Virtual, Synthetic and Financial: Three Names
  5. How the Generator Still Reaches the Market
  6. Attributes Moved Without Any Delivery
  7. Crossing a Border With No Physical Consequence
  8. The Point the Settlement Names
  9. Derivative or Not, and Why It Matters
  10. Hedging Intent and the Mandate That Permits It
  11. What a Virtual Structure Cannot Do
  12. A Virtual Offer and a Sleeved Offer, Compared
M6 Permission: What Each Market Allows Ch 67-78
  1. The Licence as the Gate on Physical Routes
  2. Supplying Under an Exemption Rather Than a Licence
  3. Third-Party Access: the Right Behind Every Route
  4. Active Customers and Self-Consumers in European Law
  5. Communities and Shared Generation Schemes
  6. Markets Where No Route Exists
  7. Retail Competition as a Precondition for Choice
  8. Charges Designed to Discourage a Route
  9. Grandfathering and the Route That Closes Behind You
  10. Reading an Unfamiliar Market for Route Availability
  11. One Mandate, Two Countries, Two Answers
  12. The Permission Note Every Deal File Needs
M7 Metering, Title and the Point of Delivery Ch 79-88
  1. Writing the Delivery Point Into the Contract
  2. The Moment Electricity Becomes the Buyer's
  3. Settlement-Grade Metering and Who Reads It
  4. Splitting One Export Meter Between Buyers
  5. Losses Between the Plant and the Factory
  6. Export Meter Against Import Meter
  7. When the Data Does Not Arrive
  8. Which Routes Need Interval Data and Which Do Not
  9. The Connection Agreement as a Constraint
  10. An Evidence Chain From Meter to Invoice
M8 Charges, Levies and the Avoided-Cost Argument Ch 89-98
  1. What a Route Avoids Is Not What It Saves
  2. Network Charges and the Route That Bypasses Them
  3. Policy Levies Collected Through the Electricity Bill
  4. The Embedded Benefit Argument and Its Assumptions
  5. Cross-Subsidy and the Regulator's Objection
  6. Charges That Follow the Consumer Whatever the Route
  7. Imbalance Exposure Named by Route
  8. The Intermediary's Fee, Named and Deferred
  9. Comparing Delivered Cost Across Routes on One Basis
  10. An Avoided-Charge Claim You Can Defend
M9 Variants, Hybrids and Lookalikes Ch 99-109
  1. One Generator, Several Corporate Buyers
  2. One Buyer, Several Generating Assets
  3. The Anchor Offtaker and the Residual Buyer
  4. Pairing a Financial Deal With a Physical One
  5. Part Sleeved, Part Grid: the Layered Structure
  6. The Party in the Middle and Why It Is There
  7. Green Tariffs Are Not Power Purchase Agreements
  8. Buying Certificates Without Buying Power
  9. Government Support Contracts Are a Different Animal
  10. Merchant Exposure and the Floor a Buyer Can Offer
  11. Naming a Structure Nobody Can Misread
M10 Choosing a Route, Worked End to End Ch 110-119
  1. The Situation: a Manufacturer With Three Sites
  2. Eliminating Routes Before Comparing Them
  3. The On-Site Option at the Owned Plant
  4. The Private Wire Option and the Land Between
  5. The Sleeved Option and the Supplier's Answer
  6. The Virtual Option and the Treasury's Answer
  7. The Route Recommended and the Risks Accepted
  8. The Same Case With the Licensing Rule Changed
  9. What Route Classification Cannot Decide
  10. The Threads Each Later Course Takes Up

The brochure gives each of these 119 chapters a paragraph on what it covers and what you can do once you have worked through it.

This is course 2 of twenty

It stands alone, and it is also the entry point to the Power Origination and PPA Desk Academy pathway.

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