Request for Offers Launches for Oakland Clean Energy Initiative
April 13 2018 - 2:58PM
Business Wire
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), in collaboration
with East Bay Community Energy, is seeking innovative clean energy
project proposals to meet local transmission reliability needs. The
energy company and the public power supplier launched a Request for
Offers (RFO) process on Friday.
The competitive solicitation is the next step in advancing
PG&E’s Oakland Clean Energy Initiative. The initiative will
result in a clean energy alternative to the existing fossil-fuel
power plant at 50 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, which currently
provides electric transmission-grid reliability in Oakland.
The Oakland Clean Energy Initiative will proactively deploy
clean energy resources to provide transmission-grid reliability. It
marks the first joint solicitation between a utility and a
community choice aggregator, an entity through which cities or
counties buy electricity for area residents and businesses.
“We look forward to beginning a competitive market solicitation
process in coordination with East Bay Community Energy,” said Roy
Kuga, vice president of Grid Integration and Innovation for
PG&E. “We are fortunate to serve an area with an abundance of
energy and technology innovators, and this is a terrific
opportunity to find clean energy resources that both improve our
grid’s resilience and help California meet its climate goals.”
PG&E will procure resources to meet transmission reliability
needs, and East Bay Community Energy will procure the associated
capacity, energy and renewable energy credits. Depending on the
selected portfolio, the solicitation could result in 20 to 45
megawatts of clean energy resources. The combined PG&E and East
Bay Community Energy solicitation will competitively source a
portfolio of local clean resources such as renewable generation,
energy storage and energy efficiency, and will support local
jobs.
Offers will be accepted until June 15. PG&E will hold an
informational webinar on May 9 for vendors interested in submitting
proposals through the request-for-offers process.
After the market solicitation closes, PG&E and East Bay
Community Energy will independently review bids and develop
preferred portfolios of resources. PG&E expects to submit its
portfolio to the California Public Utilities Commission for review
and approval by early 2019.
The California Independent System Operator (ISO) has a
Reliability Must Run contract with the existing power plant’s
owner, Dynegy, to purchase electricity during peak periods. The ISO
previously identified the 40-year-old power plant’s retirement as a
risk to transmission reliability.
PG&E and the ISO collaborated to study how a cost-effective
portfolio of distributed clean energy resources could become part
of an alternative to the plant. The Oakland Clean Energy Initiative
was the result of those studies. The system operator’s board
approved the initiative on March 22 as a lower-cost alternative to
new transmission lines or a new fossil-fuel plant.
“This is a first-of-its-kind collaboration to demonstrate that
clean and local energy sources can be used effectively to replace
dirty fossil fuel generation in our community while ensuring that
the lights stay on for our residents and businesses,” said Dan
Kalb, EBCE Vice-Chair and Oakland City Councilmember. “We are
excited to be part of the solution to climate change while
providing direct benefits to the people living in our
communities.”
PG&E engaged a diverse group of stakeholders during
development of the Oakland Clean Energy Initiative proposal
including the City of Oakland; the International Brotherhood of
Electric Workers Local 1245; the Port of Oakland; environmental
groups such as Environmental Defense Fund, West Oakland
Environmental Indicators Project and Natural Resources Defense
Council; and businesses that neighbor the site.
More information about the request for offers can be found at
www.pge.com/rfo.
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E
Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas
and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San
Francisco, with more than 20,000 employees, the company delivers
some of the nation’s cleanest energy to nearly 16 million people in
Northern and Central California. For more information, visit
www.pge.com/ and www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/index.page.
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