Please step back and ask why these developers would need a PPA to finance capital costs.
But there's a catch: PPA's make economic sense only in states with significant solar rebate programs.
With a solar PPA, consumers get the same low rate no matter how much power they use.
That was the last of the PPA activity until a couple months ago.
John Pappas, executive director of the PPA, says he believes Full Tilt stopped making contributions to IGC in January 2011.
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No one is going to build solar without a PPA because selling that power into the market is a losing proposition.
SunEdison of Baltimore and MMA Renewable Ventures of San Francisco are two companies that have pushed the PPA further into the mainstream.
And because solar PPA users generate a share of their own energy, it shrinks both their utility bill and their carbon footprint.
In late April, SunEdison inked a deal to put solar panels up at 24 Kohl's department stores in California through a PPA model.
Further, he points out, chemically similar drugs like the decongestent phenylpropanolamine (PPA) and the dietary supplement Ephedra have already been pulled from the market for heart risk.
My alternative idea is for the Newspaper Publishers Association, the Newspaper Society, the PPA and the commercial broadcasters to get together and create their own news search engine.
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In May, Wal-Mart Stores chose to enter into a solar pilot project through a PPA model with SunEdison at four of its stores in California and four in Hawaii.
In late April, SunEdison inked a deal to put solar panels up at 24 Kohl's (nyse: KSS - news - people ) department stores in California through a PPA model.
The 2013 cuts also almost fall halfway through the fiscal year which began back on October 1, and the cuts fall on the smallest pieces of the budget on what is known as the program-project-activity (PPA) level.
Both Lederer and Ferguson were famous poker players, but their interest in the PPA was also driven by their business, Full Tilt Poker, which was well on its way to becoming the second-biggest online poker company in the world.
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In May, Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ) chose to enter into a solar pilot project through a PPA model with SunEdison at four of its stores in California and four in Hawaii.
Whole Foods, another SunEdison customer, installed solar at some of its New Jersey stores in 2004 through a PPA. Because New Jersey electricity rates have risen significantly, SunEdison's Shah says Whole Foods is now paying about 25% less for its electricity.
Using a mechanism known as a power purchase agreement (PPA), such companies as Wal-Mart Stores and Whole Foods Market have contracted with third parties that install, own and maintain solar power systems that typically sit on the roof of a corporate outlet.
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