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Approval of a Power Purchase Agreement for Solar Electric Power with FL Solar 6, LLC (B)
**This item was presented to the UAB on May 13, 2020.**
Explanation
For more than a decade GRU has been actively engaged in reducing carbon emissions and increasing its use of renewable energy. As a result, GRU’s current renewable resources include the Deerhaven Renewable facility (103 MW), landfill gas fueled power (3.6 MW), and Solar Feed-in-Tariff (18.5 MW). GRU also has approximately nine MW of customer owned and net metered solar connected to its distribution system.
On October 18, 2018, the City Commission approved a resolution establishing a goal for providing 100% of the City’s energy from renewable resources by 2045. In working towards this goal and after consultation with the City Commission, GRU Energy Supply moved forward with the procurement of 40-50 MW of solar power through a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).
On May 31, 2019, Utilities Procurement issued an Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) via the DemandStar electronic bid portal and it was broadcasted to known providers as well as 390 other providers/suppliers registered with the site. The ITN requested information for 40-50 MW of solar capacity. Proposals from six providers were received, two of which were not evaluated due to non-conformance with the specifications.
Proposals from four providers were evaluated based on price, experience and conformance with the specifications. The providers were ranked and the top three providers were invited to move forward into negotiations. After detailed clarifications and discussions, the shortlisted providers provided enhanced proposals to include edits to a draft PPA with GRU. Each provider was given an opportunity to meet with the negotiating team for a PPA page-turn.
The negotiating team determined Origis Energy could provide the best value to GRU and was selected to move forward to negotiate a Power Purchase Agreement. After successful negotiations,...
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