Abundant affordable electricity matters to everyone.
Public access to PPAs will support the growing norm of transparency in public procurement to scale-up clean energy deployment and ultimately contribute toward a lower carbon future in emerging markets by making clean energy cheaper, clearing the pipeline for new and better projects, and enabling faster deployment with streamlined contract models.
Attracting the necessary volume of private capital depends on markets that can accelerate procurement, drive prices down, and provide clarity to investors, developers, and policymakers.
But electricity contracts in emerging markets are often negotiated bilaterally on a one-off basis, behind closed doors, and without public knowledge.
The opaque status quo constrains the benchmarking, standardization, or competitive forces that have unleashed clean energy in richer countries.
Solution: Greater disclosure of electricity contracts
A high-impact zero-cost solution is to establish transparency norms for power contracts.
What you can do
Climate and clean energy advocates should push for transparency standards in power sector contracts to create the open, competitive markets that will allow for rapid scaling of clean energy.
