Power Purchase Agreement
Tailoring PPAs for WA's resource sector
Minsaram tailors PPAs to accelerate your energy goals
Flexible Commercial Structures:
Tailoring the PPA to Your Life of Mine
In the Western Australian resource sector, a rigid, one-size-fits-all approach to energy contracting is inherently flawed. The landscape is deeply segmented, ranging from massive tier-one iron ore operations with a thirty-year Life of Mine (LOM) to mid-tier gold and lithium plays operating on five-year proven reserves. To ensure your transition to hybrid power is commercially bankable and perfectly aligned with your geological runway, Minsaram Energy has developed a flexible suite of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs). These structures are explicitly designed to address the unique financial constraints, operational risk profiles, and ownership preferences of your executive board.
The Two-Part Tariff:
The Off-Grid Gold Standard
For established operations with a proven ten-plus year LOM looking to aggressively decarbonise, we deploy the Two-Part Tariff PPA. This highly bankable structure separates the cost of the infrastructure from the cost of the electrons. Your monthly invoice consists of a fixed Capacity Charge—which covers the capital deployment of hardware and batteries, ensuring the system is always available as your spinning reserve—and a highly competitive, variable Energy Charge for the actual power dispatched. This model guarantees our capital recovery while providing your operation with an incredibly cheap marginal cost of clean energy, fundamentally restructuring your long-term OPEX.
The economic debate is over.
Based on the CSIRO and the AEMO’s model, hybrid power generation is the definitive low cost path for new power.
Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT):
Preserving Capital, Securing Assets
Many WA Australian mining companies prefer to ultimately own their critical infrastructure but are currently capital-constrained due to aggressive drilling, expansion, or primary processing upgrades. For these operators, our BOOT agreement provides the ideal financial bridge. With full financing to build and operate the microgrid for a fixed medium-term period. This functions as off-balance-sheet financing during the critical early years of mine's life. At the conclusion of the contract term, full ownership of the fully localised, mature asset transfers to your company for a nominal fee, aligning perfectly with your long-term asset accumulation strategy.
The Relocatable PPA:
Eliminating Stranded Asset Risk
A significant hurdle to microgrid adoption is the "stranded asset" risk associated with short-LOM operations or temporary construction camps. We neutralize this risk entirely through our Relocatable PPA. Engineered for terms of three to seven years, this contract leverages the modular, containerised architecture of our technology. Because our systems are packaged into skid-mounted, mine-spec enclosures by our local integration partners, they are fundamentally mobile. If your ore body is exhausted before a standard ten-year term, the contract includes a pre-agreed relocation framework, allowing us to seamlessly unplug the microgrid and redeploy it to your next tenement, completely removing the capital trap of a short mine life
Diesel cost is destroying your margins.
Our PPAs capture the value between legacy fossil fuels and modern renewable storage, delivering clean power at a fraction of your current delivered diesel cost.
The Diesel-Offset Agreement:
Zero-Risk Shared Savings
For highly risk-averse operators undertaking "brownfield" expansions—where a site is currently running on 100% diesel—we offer the ultimate performance-backed contract. Under the Diesel-Offset model, we do not charge a traditional tariff. Instead, we establish a rigid baseline of your current diesel consumption and fuel logistics costs. Minsaram Energy installs the solar array and high-temperature BESS at our cost. We then invoice purely on a percentage of the actual diesel fuel our system successfully displaces each month. This zero-risk proposition guarantees that if the system underperforms, you pay nothing. It perfectly aligns our commercial success with your immediate operational savings.
MINSARAM
ENERGY
To be the definitive energy partner for Western Australia's remote industries, permanently decoupling the resource sector from diesel reliance through resilient, high-performance microgrids.
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