---
title: "US power purchase conditions checklist"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/energy-resources-and-mining/us-ppa-conditions-checklist"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a13-us-ppa-conditions-checklist"
area_id: "A13"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A13-T1-R7", "A13-X20260927-7"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# US power purchase conditions checklist

> Conditions checklist for a power sale, covering credit support, permits and interconnection as commercial items, and asking the lawyer whether a Commission filing is required. It does not invent a queue rule.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/energy-resources-and-mining/us-ppa-conditions-checklist  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Energy, Resources & Mining](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/energy-resources-and-mining.md)
- Jurisdictions: United States
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the 2 authorities it cites, for United States.

## When to use it

Use when a power purchase term sheet needs a closing list. Do not use it as an interconnection application or as a market-registration form.

## Used for these tasks

- [Draft or review a royalty, streaming or offtake agreement](https://ailawframework.com/practice/energy-resources-and-mining/draft-or-review-a-royalty-streaming-or-offtake-agreement.md)
- [Assemble the market registration and connection application pack](https://ailawframework.com/practice/energy-resources-and-mining.md#A13-X20260927-7)

## How AI may be used

Yellow: the lawyer marks which conditions the contract requires and whether any filing is a statutory one.

**AI may:**

- List credit support, insurance, permits and interconnection as blanks the contract must fill.
- Ask, as a separate question, whether section 824 or section 824d requires a filing.
- Point market registration to the lawyer. No queue rule is stated.

**AI must not:**

- Do not complete an interconnection application or a Commission filing.
- Do not name a regional transmission organisation, a tariff or a queue position.
- Do not mark a condition as satisfied.

**The lawyer checks:**

- Take the conditions from the term sheet and the long-form draft, not from a standard list presented as law.
- Decide who holds the interconnection right.
- If the sale is at wholesale in interstate commerce, read sections 824 and 824d before treating the price as outside them.

## Authorities

- [16 U.S.C. § 824](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/16/824)
- [16 U.S.C. § 824d](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/16/824d)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/energy-resources-and-mining/us-ppa-conditions-checklist and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*