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Power Purchase Agreement · PPA

Multi-year electricity contract fixing price and often sourcing clean energy for a facility.

Current numbers

~$0.6B/yrenergy: largest controllable opex line in the 1 GW model — why the PPA is a financing preconditionas of 2026 · register ↗
~45 GWdata-center SMR offtake pipeline (up from ~25 GW end-2024); first corporate SMR-fleet deal Google-Kairos Oct 2024 (500 MW); first utility Gen-IV PPA Kairos-TVA Aug 2025 (50 MW, Google offtake)as of 2026 · register ↗
115 MWGoogle-Fervo 24/7 enhanced-geothermal PPA (NV Energy delivered); Cape Station scaling to 500 MWas of 2025 · register ↗

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