Request for Offer (RFO)

Overview
Clean Power Alliance of Southern California (“Clean Power Alliance”) is soliciting competitive proposals for the purchase of 10-year or longer renewable energy and storage contracts through a Request for Offer (“RFO”). The goal of the RFO is for Clean Power Alliance to solicit and evaluate offers from renewable energy generation and storage facilities to meet Clean Power Alliance’s electricity needs, achieve its environmental objectives, and offer its customers competitive, clean energy options. Based on the solicitation and evaluation, Clean Power Alliance may enter into one or more long-term Power Purchase Agreements (“PPAs”) with renewable energy generation and storage facilities that can deliver into the California Independent System Operator Grid (“CAISO”) for an aggregate amount between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 megawatt-hours (“MWh”) per year of Energy, Environmental Attributes, Resource Adequacy, and Ancillary Services, as applicable, from three types of products:

Product 1: Renewable energy products individually metered from new or existing facilities, with or without energy storage, meeting the delivery requirements established for Portfolio Content Category 1 (PCC1), as defined under California’s RPS.
Product 2: Fixed-volume renewable energy products from new or existing facilities meeting requirements for PCC1 or PCC2 and priced at Index-Plus.
Product 3: Stand-alone energy storage products capable of offering all three of the following: Resource Adequacy, Energy, and Ancillary Services.

RFO Platform
LevelTen Energy (LevelTen) is supporting Clean Power Alliance’s initiative by administering and organizing the RFO through LevelTen’s online RFO Platform. Materials related to the RFO have been posted on LevelTen’s Platform.

To access the Clean Power Alliance RFO Platform:

1. Log on to LevelTen’s Platform
2. Navigate to the RFPs area from the left-hand tool bar
3. Filter for “All” RFPs,
4. Click on “CPA RFO” (note: it will appear as a “Closed” RFO).

Receiving LevelTen log in credentials: If you do not yet have log in credentials for LevelTen’s Platform, please complete LevelTen’s contact form to request adding others at your organization to the distribution list and/or log in credentials for LevelTen’s online RFO Platform. Complete the short form, include “CPA RFO” in the message field, select Submitting Projects, and press Send.

RFO Schedule
The RFO will officially open for bids on October 15, 2018 at 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time. Offers are due November 9, 2018 at 5:00 PM Pacific Standard Time.