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Joint Long Duration Storage Request for Offers

Eight community choice energy agencies jointly seek to procure Long-Duration Storage (“LDS”) to cost-effectively enhance renewable energy portfolios and aid in achieving California’s aggressive greenhouse gas reduction targets.

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Seeking 500 MWs for long duration storage

The seven joint CCAs are seeking to acquire up to 500 MWs of capacity, energy and any associated ancillary products, and resource adequacy (“Full Toll”) and/or simply Resource Adequacy (“RA Only”.) Download the Request for Offers Protocol and Appendix A Offer Form to submit an offer.

Updated Timeline
Updated Scheduled Date
Issuance of RFO
October 15, 2020
Offerors Webinar
October 28, 2020 at 3:30-4:30 p.m. (PDT)
Deadlines to submit questions
November 6, 2020
Responses to questions published (below)
November 10, 2020
Deadline to submit proposals
December 1, 2020 by 5:00 p.m. PDT
Review evaluation and ranking of projects
December 1, 2020 – April 15, 2021
Project(s) shortlisting
April 30 May 14, 2021
Developer/Buyer negotiations
May-September 2021
Final contract approval (Tentative)
October-November 2021

The “Updated Timeline” was published and updated on March 1, 2021.

Original Timeline

Original Timeline
Originally Scheduled Date
Issuance of RFO
October 15, 2020
Offerors Webinar
October 28, 2020 at 3:30-4:30 p.m. (PDT)
Deadlines to submit questions
November 6, 2020
Responses to questions published (below)
November 10, 2020
Deadline to submit proposals
December 1, 2020 by 5:00 p.m. PDT
Review evaluation and ranking of projects
December 1, 2020 – February 2, 2021
Project(s) shortlisting
March 2, 2021
Developer/Buyer negotiations
March-July 2021
Final contract approval (Tentative)
July 2021
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The response deadline has passed and the solicitation is now closed.

You can review the closed solicitation, appendices and Q&A below.

Any questions reach out to jointldsrfo@svcleanenergy.org

We have contacted all projects that will be moving forward. If you have not been notified, then CC Power will not be shortlisting any of your projects in this RFO. Thank you to all who submitted proposals submitted for our RFO. We appreciate the significant effort and time put into each offer.

Energy Load, Accounts and Financial Resources for Each CCA

CCA Annual Load 2019 (GWh) Est Peak Load (MW) Customer Accounts Credit Rating Resources
CleanPowerSF 2,706 460 380,000 Moody’s ‘A2’  Financial Documents
IRP
Peninsula Clean Energy 3,569 733 293,000 Moody’s ‘Baa2’ Fitch ‘BBB+’ Financial Documents
IRP
Redwood Coast Energy 699 125 62,000 Financial Documents
IRP
San Jose Clean Energy 3,286 1,081 332,500 Financial Documents
IRP
Silicon Valley Clean Energy 3,898 800 270,000 Moody’s ‘Baa2’
Standard & Poor’s ‘A’
Financial Documents
IRP
Sonoma Clean Power 2,360 417 227,000 Financial Documents
IRP
Valley Clean Energy 684 187 54,000 Financial Documents
IRP
TOTALS 17,202 3,803 1,618,500    

Offerors Webinar

SVCE hosted a webinar on November 5, 2020, to go over the objectives, requirements, and processes for evaluation, submission and selection. Please review the webinar presentation slides below.