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At the panel on international energy purchases, large corporations such as the Greek Mytilineos<\/strong> showed how, thanks to the purchase of green energy through corporate PPA contracts, they enabled the safe continuation of their energy-intensive metal industry. The company went one step further and became a producer of renewable energy and is developing more than 400 MW of projects in Croatia, said Vincenzo Quinci, Head of Origination Europe for Renewables, MYTILINEOS S.A.<\/strong> He confirmed that they buy green energy within the country and that the possibilities of virtual PPA contracts are excellent and they sign such contracts more often. Vincenzo Quinchi was a participant in the third panel, which discussed the purchase of green energy through virtual PPA contracts outside the country’s borders and the security of such purchases and the great complexity of such contracts.<\/p>\nDorota Debinska-Pokorska, a partner in PwC Poland,<\/strong> concluded in the introductory lecture, as well as on the panel, that she personally is not an advocate of such a purchase precisely because of the numerous risks. The creation of PPA contracts within the country is complex, and cross-border ones are additionally demanding precisely because of the different legal provisions of the country of the buyer and producer of green energy, which are located in different countries. Precisely because of different legislation and belonging to different energy markets, such contracts carry additional risk. It is always better to buy energy in the country, she concluded, but if it is not possible otherwise, buy it across the border, just check everything carefully, she says.<\/p>\nBranimir Beljan, Regional Relationship Manager, from Danska Commodities,<\/strong> agreed with this and concluded that it is wiser to buy energy within the country, if there is not enough, then the recommendation is to buy within the region, because the countries of the region usually share the same reference energy market, which is, for example, for Croatian company market of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia. He does not recommend buying energy from Germany precisely because of the volatility of the market that is expected in the coming period, and these are risks that should be avoided since such contracts are signed for a period of 10 years or more. Ale\u0161 Jurak, Head of PV Product, along with RESALTA d.o.o.,<\/strong> agreed with him. from Slovenia, which mainly signs PPA contracts within the region, but most often in the country where it has branches. The company signed a physical PPA contract of 0.5 MW with Ljubljana Airport and considers the development of the PPA contract essential for the development of the region.<\/p>\nLejla Me\u0161i\u0107 Sulji\u0107, PPA manager from BayWa r.e.<\/strong> pointed out a number of advantages that such a purchase enables and stated that the company has signed about 1.9 GW PPA contracts so far and that they recently signed the first European agrosolar PPA contract in Spain, a virtual PPA contract that proves all the effectiveness of these types of contracts. She explained the different models and risks and underlined how these contracts are one of the effective ways of spreading renewable energy.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>