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What an availability payment is and what it buys
In an availability-payment concession a government pays a private partner a fixed sum for keeping an asset open and working, whether or not anybody uses it. By the end you will know who carries demand risk, what the payment covers in the decades after construction ends, and the one clause that gives the public any leverage.