ILOS develops, finances and delivers solar and battery storage infrastructure for energy users across the public and private sectors. Our projects enable businesses and organisations to reduce exposure to power price volatility, bypass grid delays with Private Wire – behind the meter opportunities, peak demand charges, and improve resilience with low carbon electricity.
ILOS will finance and build the projects directly, enabling off-takers to have confidence in project completion and long-term power purchase agreements.
This model allows industrial, commercial and public sector organisations to secure dedicated, behind the meter, renewable generation without deploying their own capital or assuming development risk or enter into a Corporate Virtual PPA or fully Sleeved arrangement.
As an outline there are three typical routes available for High Energy Users to partner with ILOS for clean energy buying through Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs). The structure of each type of PPA varies, so ILOS will work with your business to select the best model and solutions for your power needs.
Power is supplied without passing through the national electricity grid. Private wire arrangements are the foundation of our partnerships with private and public sector organisations. We will originate, finance and construct – in proximity to the end user or off-taker – a dedicated solar and battery project supplying electricity directly via a unique power connection. This creates additional clean energy behind the meter, separate from existing grid-supplied power.
Power is supplied by an ILOS solar farm to a corporate energy buyer, for a contracted price, via an intermediary licenced energy supplier. The licenced supplier incorporates or ‘sleeves’ the energy from ILOS into their wider electricity supply to that energy customer, ensuring local, low carbon power is incorporated into broader usage profiles. ILOS works with three national licenced energy suppliers to orchestrate sleeved PPAs for corporate energy buyers.
A VPPA differs slightly from a Private Wire PPA and a Sleeved PPA by being structured as a financial Contract for Difference (CfD) that enables corporate energy buyers to secure long-term price certainty from ILOS, while also contracting a supply of renewable energy via the grid. VPPAs enable energy buyers to hedge against rising retail power prices. The PPA may be between ILOS and the Corporate oftaker directly, with the licenced entity forming part of the PPA to sell oversupply or inject additional electric, gas or Oil requirements, or with ILOS and the corporate entity forming parties to the licenced electricity supplier’s PPA.
Choose a Sleeved PPA if:
You want physical renewable electricity delivered to your site.
Your operations are on a single grid.
You prefer a more traditional energy supply structure.
Choose a Virtual PPA if:
You operate across multiple regions with multiple sites.
You want renewable certificates and price hedging without physical delivery.
You want maximum flexibility and simpler supplier switching.