Clean Power Alliance (CPA), the Community Choice Aggregator (CCA) serving communities in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, is now soliciting offers for energy storage power purchase agreements (PPAs). Ascend Analytics (Ascend) is administering this Request for Offers (RFO) process on behalf of CPA. Bid submissions are due on November 11, 2019 by 5:00 PM Pacific Standard Time.
This solicitation is seeking stand-alone energy storage projects within the range of 10-100 MW of installed capacity with a 4-hour duration and with a commercial operation date (COD) no later than August 1, 2023. Priority fast-track status (expedited negotiation and contract award) will be given to projects with COD on or before August 1, 2021. These projects are sought to fulfill CPA’s incremental capacity procurement obligations under the CPUC’s Sept. 12, 2019 proposed decision requiring electric system reliability procurement for 2021-2023 in the Integrated Resource Planning proceeding, Rulemaking 16-02.
CPA is seeking full dispatch rights for the energy storage projects under a 15-year PPA, with pricing provided at the project Pnode. Projects will be evaluated on a combination of quantitative and qualitative factors that include economic value, development risk, workforce development, environmental stewardship, benefits to Disadvantaged Communities, and project location.
RFO Opens
October 14, 2019
Bidder Webinar to discuss the RFO process
October 23, 2019 at 3:00 PM Pacific Time
Deadline to submit questions
October 25, 2019
Q&A responses posted
November 1, 2019
Bids Due
November 11, 2019 @ 5:00 PM Pacific Time
Vendors notified of Short List status
December 2019
Contract negotiations under exclusivity and award
December 2019 - May 2020
The full RFO is available for download on this website, which includes the following documents:
2019 Reliability RFO Protocol
Please download all documents and follow instructions in the "Submission Instructions for CPA 2019 Reliability RFO" and "2019 Reliability RFO Protocol" documents in order to submit a compliant bid.
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The bidders' webinar has already occurred. For a recording of the webinar, please follow this link.
The slides from the webinar are available for download here:
All questions submitted via email and during the webinar are answered in the document available for download below:
Full submission instructions are included n the RFO documents. To bid on this RFO you must register using the web form below. Submitted bids must be sent to CPA-storage-RFO@ascendanalytics.com with a subject line of 'CPA Reliability RFO Submission.
All communication regarding this RFO must take place exclusively via email correspondence. Do not call or otherwise attempt to contact CPA or Ascend Analytics outside of the CPA-Storage-RFO@AscendAnalytics.com email address. Doing so may result in vendor disqualification from this RFO process.
Clean Power Alliance