The North American Energy Markets Association is posting this RFP on behalf of our member The Energy Authority.
Desert Community Energy (DCE) is a California joint powers authority formed to offer a Community Choice Aggregation program in the desert region of Riverside County. DCE’s members are the cities of Palm Desert and Palm Springs. DCE offers customers the choice to buy cleaner electricity at competitive rates, reducing greenhouse gas through the development of robust renewable energy infrastructure.
DCE is seeking projects that meet the basic requirements of the Mid-term Reliability Decisions D.21-06-035 and D.23-02-040 for a term of at least 10 years.
DCE is also interested in procuring temporary bridge resources to allow DCE to meet its MTR procurement targets while allowing additional development time for its new resources to come online.
Please also note that DCE has formally applied for a credit rating from S&P Global Ratings (previously Standard & Poor’s, S&P). DCE expects to be assigned an investment grade credit rating by S&P prior to the RFP response due date of August 29, 2024. DCE will update this RFP in an Addendum if the investment grade credit rating is obtained prior to such date.
As a trusted public power affiliate, The Energy Authority (TEA) is the administrator for this Request for Proposals (RFP).
To access the RFP documents, schedule, and terms, please visit TEA’s Marketplace site:
https://rfpmarketplace.teainc.org/
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