Full Flex PPA for Renewable Energy Producers

Your production changes. So does its market value.

Renewable production does not follow a flat profile. Neither do electricity prices. The commercial value of a solar or wind asset therefore depends not only on how much electricity it generates, but also on when that electricity reaches the market.

Leaving production exposed to wholesale prices gives you access to market opportunities, but it also means accepting price volatility. Fixing all production can provide more certainty, but reduces your exposure to favourable market developments.

A Full Flex PPA is relevant when you want to actively manage that trade-off rather than choose one fixed approach for your complete production volume.

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Full Flex PPA

What is a Full Flex PPA?

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A Full Flex PPA is a market-based offtake structure for renewable electricity.

Scholt Energy purchases the electricity generated by your installation and provides access to wholesale energy markets. Depending on the agreed strategy, part of your expected production can be fixed at predetermined prices while another part remains exposed to market prices.

This gives you greater control over your pricing strategy while Scholt manages the market processes required to bring your production to market.

Unlike a CPPA, the proposition is not primarily built around a long-term corporate off-taker. Unlike SDE Outperformer, settlement is not primarily structured around the SDE++ correction methodology.

1.

Define your production and commercial objectives

We start with your asset, expected production profile and preferred balance between market exposure and price certainty.

2.

Bring production to the wholesale market

Scholt Energy purchases your generated electricity and provides access to relevant wholesale markets. This can include spot, futures and OTC markets depending on the agreed structure.

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Set your pricing strategy

You can choose to secure part of expected production at predetermined prices while leaving another part exposed to market movements. The exact allocation follows the commercial strategy agreed for your asset.

4.

Manage forecasting and balancing

Actual renewable production will differ from forecasts. Scholt manages the market processes around forecasting, balancing, imbalance and settlement within the agreed structure.

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Add flexibility where it makes commercial sense

If your asset can be controlled and the necessary rights are agreed, flexibility can form an additional layer. Curtailment or participation in balancing and congestion mechanisms may then be considered separately from the core offtake arrangement.

A Full Flex PPA deliberately retains a degree of market exposure. That creates both opportunity and risk.

More market exposure

means your realised revenues remain more closely connected to market prices. You can benefit from favourable price developments, but adverse or negative prices can also affect your realised value.

Strategic hedging

lets you secure selected volumes or periods instead of making one all-or-nothing pricing decision.

Professional market access

means you do not need to build the complete trading, forecasting and balancing infrastructure internally.

Flexibility remains an option,

not an automatic promise of additional revenue. Whether curtailment, storage or another flexibility service adds value depends on the asset, market conditions, contractual rights and applicable regulations.

Relevance

When is a Full Flex PPA relevant?

This may be relevant if you...

want your production to remain directly connected to wholesale-market prices;
prefer to spread pricing decisions rather than fix your complete expected production at once;
want the option to hedge selected production volumes;
have a solar, wind or CHP installation with a material production volume;
want professional forecasting, balancing and settlement alongside your market strategy;
want to explore whether controllability or storage can add another optimisation layer.

A CPPA may be more appropriate when longer-term revenue predictability through a corporate off-taker is the primary objective.

For an eligible Dutch solar or wind project where SDE subsidy mechanics are central to the revenue model, SDE Outperformer may provide a more appropriate structure.

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Scholt Energy manages the route from production to market

“You remain responsible for operating your generation asset within the agreed operational framework.

Scholt Energy acts as the commercial and market partner. Depending on the agreed structure, this includes purchasing your production, market access, trading execution, forecasting, balancing, imbalance management and financial settlement.

Where flexibility services are added, the operational boundaries and activation rights should be agreed separately. Your PPA therefore remains the foundation for selling electricity, while flexibility can become an additional optimisation layer.”

From energy offtake to asset optimisation

Selling electricity is one part of the commercial performance of a renewable asset.

Periods of low or negative prices, grid constraints and increasing balancing needs can make the timing of production, curtailment or storage increasingly relevant. If your asset is controllable, Scholt can assess whether Flex Services or connection to our Virtual Power Plant can complement your route-to-market strategy.

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Direct energy-market expertise

Scholt operates across spot, futures and OTC energy markets, enabling different degrees of price exposure and hedging within the agreed structure.

Forecasting and balancing

We manage forecasting and balancing processes around renewable production, reducing the operational market work required from your organisation.

One route from offtake to flexibility

Where appropriate, renewable assets can also be connected to flexibility services, including curtailment and participation in balancing or congestion mechanisms.

Established market roles

Scholt Energy operates market roles including BRP, BSP and CSP in the Dutch market, supporting our activities across energy trading, balancing and flexibility.

Personal commercial guidance

The structure is determined around your asset and commercial objectives rather than forcing every producer into the same pricing model.

Can I fix part of my production and leave the rest exposed to the market?

Yes. The existing Scholt proposition allows producers to fix part of their production at predetermined prices while leaving remaining volumes exposed to market prices. The exact structure and volumes are agreed for the individual contract.

Who carries imbalance risk?

This depends on the agreed contract. Scholt provides professional forecasting, balancing and settlement services within the Full Flex structure. The precise allocation of imbalance costs and risks should be made explicit in the commercial proposal.

What happens during negative electricity prices?

Market-exposed production can be affected by negative prices. If your installation is controllable, curtailment may be relevant in certain circumstances. Whether and when this is commercially appropriate depends on your contract, asset, subsidy position and market conditions.

Can a Full Flex PPA be combined with battery storage?

Potentially. Storage can change when electricity is exposed to the market and can create additional flexibility. The business case and contractual treatment need to be assessed for the specific asset configuration.

Do I need my own trading team?

Not for the market activities managed by Scholt under the agreement. Scholt provides market access and can manage forecasting, balancing and settlement within the agreed scope.

What happens to the Guarantees of Origin? The treatment of GvOs should be specified in the individual PPA. Where GvOs are transferred with the electricity, their commercial and administrative treatment forms part of the agreed structure.

How does Full Flex differ from a CPPA? Full Flex focuses on flexible market participation and pricing strategy. A CPPA primarily creates a longer-term commercial link between renewable production and corporate demand.

How does it differ from SDE Outperformer? SDE Outperformer is specifically structured around eligible SDE projects and alignment with the applicable subsidy methodology. Full Flex is primarily market-driven.

Take action

Discuss the right market strategy for your production

Your preferred route to market depends on your production profile, existing contracts, risk appetite and the amount of price exposure you want to retain.

Share your asset and commercial objectives with our specialists. We can assess whether Full Flex PPA or another offtake structure is the better fit.

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Combine market exposure and price
certainty with a Full Flex PPA

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Your production has value at different moments and in different markets. A Full Flex PPA gives you professional market access while letting you determine how much production remains exposed to market prices and how much you secure in advance.

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Your production changes. So does its market value.

What is a Full Flex PPA?

How does a Full Flex PPA work?

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Define your production and commercial objectives