A new platform with £800,000 of Scottish investment backing has reported strong uptake in the four months since its launch in a bid to help owners of small renewable projects get the best price from big energy suppliers for the power they generate.
PPAYA is the brainchild of Kristina Rabecaite, who came to the UK from Lithuania at the age of 15 in pursuit of an acting career. After getting knocked back at an audition because of her hair colour, she turned instead to economics and statistics in a change of course that led her into the field of power purchase agreements (PPAs).
Ms Rabecaite arrived in the UK in 2008 having convinced her mother to let her travel on her own in a bid for acting fame. She found a place to live in Suffolk, enrolled in school and got a job while also trying to build upon her stage and professional ballroom dancing experience in Lithuania.
“It was really not planned – nothing was organised,” she said. “I worked in a pub washing…