Abundant affordable electricity matters to everyone.
Public access to PPAs will support the growing norm of transparency in public procurement to reduce corruption, build clean energy faster, and ultimately contribute towards ending energy poverty and fighting climate change.
Problem
In mature energy markets, a wealth of publicly available data about electricity contracts and pricing is available, which drives low prices and high service quality.
Citizens, politicians, investors, and regulators all have the information they need to hold the government accountable for the electricity contracts signed for the public good.
By contrast, in many emerging markets, the standard contract for financing electricity infrastructure – the PPA – is often negotiated, signed, and implemented without any public knowledge.
PPAs often represent sizable taxpayer obligations, may include noncompetitive provisions, and can lead to expensive or unreliable power.
Solution: Greater disclosure of electricity contracts.
Publication of these documents will enable civil society and the media to monitor whether the government and companies are negotiating good deals for the public and then adhering to the agreement.
All parties to electricity contracts have much to gain and little to lose from disclosure.
When contracts are publicly disclosed, they can more easily be compared, scrutinized, and enforced.
Publishing contracts helps to create a level playing field and incentivizes officials to agree to contracts that reflect citizens’ best interests.
What you can do
Download the media kit to explore the PPA Watch resources available for you to bring awareness to this critical issue for people and the planet.
Dive into our resources to learn how secret electricity contracts stifle clean energy markets worldwide and make electricity expensive and unreliable for billions.
Investigate contracting in your own country, demand information about PPAs, and advocate for greater power contract transparency to hold public officials and funders accountable.
