Course 04 of 20 · Power Origination and PPA Desk Academy

Corporate Buyer Requirements

Stage A, Origination foundations. Level 2 of 10.

The corporate buyer's internal approval, reporting and claim drivers, and how they constrain a procurement mandate.

125 chapters · 11 modules · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · builds on: Course 01, Course 02

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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 · 125 chapters

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

M0 The Buyer's Seat in a Power Purchase Agreement Ch 1-10
  1. Who the Corporate Buyer Is in This Conversation
  2. A Ten-Year Commitment Inside a One-Year Company
  3. Why the Buyer Is Short Electricity Before It Signs Anything
  4. The Four Drivers Behind Any Corporate Renewable Purchase
  5. What the Buyer Brings and What It Does Not
  6. The Words Each Internal Function Uses for the Same Contract
  7. Why Two Comparable Companies Buy Power Through Different Routes
  8. The Same Mandate Seen From the Developer's Side
  9. What a Buyer-Side Mandate Must Settle Before Going to Market
  10. How This Course Is Built and Where It Hands Over
M1 Where the Requirement Comes From Ch 11-22
  1. From a Board Statement to a Megawatt-Hour Number
  2. Reading a Public Renewable Electricity Commitment Literally
  3. RE100 Membership and What It Asks of a Member
  4. A Science-Based Target as a Procurement Constraint
  5. The Net Zero Claim and the Electricity Line Inside It
  6. Customer Contracts That Impose an Energy Requirement
  7. Investor and Lender Questions That Create Procurement Pressure
  8. The Supplier Engagement Request You Received, Not Sent
  9. Cost Certainty as a Driver in Its Own Right
  10. Regulatory Exposure as a Reason to Contract
  11. When the Drivers Disagree With Each Other
  12. Writing the Requirement Statement
M2 Reporting and Disclosure as the Demand Driver Ch 23-36
  1. The Two Scope Two Methods and Why Only One Creates Demand
  2. Reading the Scope Two Quality Criteria as a Buyer
  3. The Residual Mix and the Number You Report Without Contracting
  4. Annual Matching and Hourly Matching: The Argument and Its Assumptions
  5. The 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Position and What It Requires of a Buyer
  6. Additionality as a Buyer Requirement and as a Contested Idea
  7. The CDP Questionnaire as a Procurement Specification in Disguise
  8. Mandatory Disclosure Regimes and the Electricity Data They Demand
  9. The Financial Disclosure Standards and Where They Touch a Power Contract
  10. Disclosure Rules in Markets Outside Europe
  11. Green Claims Law as a Constraint on the Procurement Brief
  12. Assurance: When an Auditor Tests the Energy Numbers
  13. Building the Buyer's Evidence Requirement List
  14. Frameworks Change: Building a Requirement That Survives Revision
M3 The Buyer's Existing Electricity Arrangements Ch 37-47
  1. The Supply Contract Already in Place
  2. Who Is Responsible for Imbalance Today
  3. Unpicking a Bundled Electricity Bill
  4. The Hedging Policy the Energy Manager Already Follows
  5. Supply Tender Timing Against Origination Timing
  6. Asking a Supplier to Sleeve, From the Buyer's Chair
  7. Site Tenure, Leases and the Landlord's Consent
  8. Metering, Settlement Registration and the Data You Can Get
  9. Which Legal Entity Actually Buys the Electricity
  10. Operating in a Market Where Corporate Contracting Is Restricted
  11. Mapping the Company's Load Before Writing a Requirement
M4 The Internal Functions and the Decision Map Ch 48-58
  1. Sustainability Owns the Target and Not the Budget
  2. The Energy Manager Who Holds the Meters and the Market View
  3. Treasury and the Question of Whether This Is a Derivative
  4. The Controller Who Must Report the Mark Each Quarter
  5. Procurement and Category Management Applied to Power
  6. Legal Review of a Long-Dated Power Contract
  7. Tax, Transfer Pricing and the Cross-Border Contract
  8. Real Estate and Facilities as a Consent Holder
  9. Internal Audit and Risk as Reviewers, Not Deciders
  10. Communications and the Announcement Nobody Cleared
  11. Drawing the Approval Map Before Approaching a Developer
M5 Energy Policy, Risk Appetite and Authority Ch 59-69
  1. The Group Energy Policy and What It Permits
  2. Risk Appetite Expressed in Volume, Money and Years
  3. Amending a Treasury Instrument Policy to Allow a Power Contract
  4. Delegated Authority Ladders for an Electricity Commitment
  5. What Counts as a Hedge in Your Own Policy Language
  6. Credit Support the Buyer Is Asked to Give
  7. Being Credit-Rated by Your Counterparty
  8. Counterparty Risk Seen From the Buyer's Side
  9. Reputational Risk in Both Directions
  10. Writing a Procurement Policy for Corporate Power Contracts
  11. The Recorded Departure From Your Own Energy Rules
M6 The Business Case and the Budget Ch 70-80
  1. What the Business Case Actually Has to Prove
  2. Framing the Comparison Against Doing Nothing
  3. The Shadow Carbon Value Used in Capital Decisions
  4. Where an Electricity Contract Sits in the Financial Plan
  5. Annual Budgets Against a Fifteen-Year Obligation
  6. Pushing the Contract Cost Out to the Meters
  7. Who Owns the Variance When the Contract Settles Against You
  8. Sensitivity Testing a Case You Did Not Build
  9. The Cost of the Procurement Process Itself
  10. Asking Finance to Fund a Contract, Not a Purchase
  11. An Illustrative Case for a Single Site
M7 From Drivers to a Procurement Mandate and Specification Ch 81-92
  1. The Mandate Document for a Corporate Power Purchase
  2. Sizing the Volume the Mandate Authorises
  3. How Much of the Load Should One Contract Cover
  4. Choosing the Delivery Route the Mandate Permits
  5. Specifying the Term and Why Buyers Want It Shorter
  6. Technology, Vintage and New Build Conditions
  7. Specifying Location Without Pricing It
  8. Attribute Requirements the Buyer Must State
  9. Ranking the Buyer's Conditions Before Offers Arrive
  10. The Over-Specified Power Tender Nobody Can Bid
  11. Issuing the Enquiry: What Developers Need to See
  12. Confidentiality, Exclusivity and Talking to Several Developers
M8 Running the Buyer's Selection Process Ch 93-103
  1. Scoring Offers That Differ on More Than Price
  2. How Much Weight Should the Premium Carry
  3. Comparing Offers You Cannot Price Yourself
  4. Questions Back to Developers, and the Record of Them
  5. What a Corporate Can Actually Verify About a Project
  6. The Negotiation Brief and the Walk-Away Point
  7. Recommending One Developer Over the Others
  8. What to Tell the Developers You Turned Down
  9. An Illustrative Corporate Selection, Worked Through
  10. Running a Process You Will Not Complete
  11. Buying Through an Intermediary Instead of Running a Process
M9 The Approval Route for a Long-Dated Commitment Ch 104-114
  1. Mapping the Gates a Power Commitment Must Pass
  2. The Board Paper for a Decade of Electricity
  3. The Questions a Committee Asks About a Fifteen-Year Deal
  4. Who Can Lawfully Sign for the Buying Entity
  5. Approved Subject to Conditions the Developer Must Meet
  6. When a Renegotiated Term Needs Fresh Authority
  7. An Offer With Fourteen Days of Validity
  8. The File a Successor Will Have to Work From
  9. One Company's Approval Route, Illustrative
  10. Going Back for Approval You Already Had
  11. What the Approval Route Cannot Protect You From
M10 After Signature: Reporting, Reconciliation and Limits Ch 115-125
  1. Who Owns the Contract the Year After Signature
  2. Reconciling Contracted Volume Against Consumption and Certificates
  3. Over-Delivery, Under-Delivery and the Reporting Gap
  4. The Second-Year Conversation With Your Auditor
  5. What the Board Needs to See Each Quarter
  6. Changing the Mandate When the Company Changes
  7. From One Contract to a Procurement Programme
  8. A Corporate Buyer With One Person and No Team
  9. An Illustrative Buyer, Part One: Driver to Mandate
  10. An Illustrative Buyer, Part Two: Selection to Signature
  11. What Buyer-Side Requirements Cannot Settle

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