Power Supply RFPs
Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative
Power Supply Request for Proposals.
Introduction:
GVEC is a not-for-profit cooperative owned and governed by its member-owners. Headquartered in Gonzales, Texas, GVEC serves over 100,000 meters throughout 13 counties, primarily in DeWitt, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Lavaca, and Wilson Counties. The service area extends approximately 100 miles from East to West and 75 miles from North to South totaling about 3,500 square miles of service territory (see maps below). GVEC is among the highest-rated distribution cooperatives in the nation.
GVEC is issuing this Request for Proposal (“RFP”) for wholesale electric supply to serve its load obligation within the service territory of GVEC and optimize its contractual position in real time. Pertinent information will be distributed to all parties who have executed and delivered a Non-Disclosure Agreement (“NDA”) with GVEC. The form NDA is attached herein as Attachment C. Return of the signed NDA will serve as a formal indication of interest. Additionally, acceptance of any proposal is conditional upon approval of GVEC’s Board of Directors.
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Contact Information:
Address all RFP questions, correspondence, NDA, and Proposals to:
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o EnerVision, Inc.
4170 Ashford Dunwoody Road
Ste 550
Atlanta, Ga 30319
678-510-2900
Tipmont Rural Electric Membership Corporation
Power Supply Request for Proposals. CLOSED
This RFP is designed to engage Respondents to offer competitive Proposals such that Tipmont may procure all capacity services, ancillary services, and electric power and energy services, including reserves, which are necessary to meet the needs of Tipmont’s system. Tipmont is also seeking Proposals for the provision of Market Participation Services.
Introduction:
Tipmont Rural Electric Membership Corporation (“Tipmont”) is a rural electric membership corporation, with its principal place of business located in Linden, Indiana. Tipmont provides retail electric service to approximately 25,000 members, and 30,648 meters in portions of eight counties in west-central Indiana, over more than 2,500 miles of power lines. Tipmont’s annual peak is approximately 138 MW with retail loads totaling approximately 524,000,000 kWh annually. Tipmont’s service territory is located within the Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s (“MISO”) Load Zone 6. Tipmont has been powering the lives of its members since 1939 with the mission to empower their communities by providing state-of-the-art essential services. On behalf of Tipmont, EnerVision is issuing this Request for Proposals (“RFP”) to solicit wholesale power supply proposals and/or Market Participant proposals (collectively, “Proposals”) from potential suppliers (“Respondent(s)”). EnerVision is an independent consulting services firm, based in Atlanta, Georgia, which is under contract with Tipmont to administer the RFP process on its behalf.
Tipmont currently purchases bundled wholesale electric services from Wabash Valley Power Association, Inc. (“WVPA”). Tipmont is a member of WVPA and purchases all of its wholesale electric power and energy requirements from WVPA through December 31, 2050. WVPA also provides Tipmont with Network Integrated Transmission Service. Tipmont and WVPA are currently engaged in negotiations to permit Tipmont to withdraw from membership in WVPA and to terminate Tipmont’s existing power supply contracts with WVPA. The existing power supply contracts between Tipmont and WVPA will be replaced by a partial requirements contract expected to commence June 1, 2025, whereby Tipmont will shall its receive load ratio share of the accredited capacity from WVPA’s existing generation and contract resources (“Legacy Resources”) it expects to offer in the Planning Resource Auction for each Local Resource Zone of the Legacy Resources through the transfer of an equivalent amount of Zonal Resource Credits (“ZRCs”) under the MISO Tariff. Additionally, WVPA and Tipmont shall coordinate with MISO to facilitate the transfer to Tipmont of its load share of entitlements to Auction Revenue Rights (“ARR”) for transmission paths to serve Tipmont’s load. Following the appropriate registration of Tipmont’s entitlements, Tipmont shall have sole discretion to determine which ARR entitlements will be nominated and whether to convert the ARRs to Financial Transmission Rights (“FTR”). A list of Legacy Resources and Tipmont’s share of entitlements to ARRs for transmission paths to serve its load will be included in the data package following the execution of the NDA mentioned below. Under the partial requirements contract between Tipmont and WVPA, WVPA will not supply any energy but rather provide Tipmont with a monthly billing credit for the prorate share of the revenues WVPA realizes from bidding its Legacy Resources into the MISO market.
Tipmont has notified WVPA that it is pursuing competitive offers for wholesale power supply and Market Participant Services (as defined below) from third party suppliers while Tipmont and WVPA complete the final stages of their negotiations regarding Tipmont’s withdrawal from WVPA membership, the termination of the existing power supply contracts between WVPA and Tipmont, and the replacement of the existing power supply contracts with a new partial requirements contract between WVPA and Tipmont. WVPA has acknowledged that Tipmont may actively solicit Proposals from third parties even though it is currently subject to an all requirements purchase obligation with WVPA. Through the issuance of this RFP, Tipmont is soliciting Proposals for wholesale power supply and Market Participant Services (as defined below) with the explicit understanding that Tipmont’s acceptance of any Proposal is conditioned upon the following which include, but are not limited to, the termination of its existing wholesale power contracts with WVPA, its withdrawal from membership in WVPA, the execution and delivery of a new partial requirements contract with WVPA, obtaining network transmission service, and approval of each component of the overall transaction by Tipmont’s Board of Directors.
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Contact Information:
Address all RFP questions, correspondence, NDA, and Proposals to:
o Tipmont_RFP@enervision-inc.com
o EnerVision, Inc.
4170 Ashford Dunwoody Road
Ste 550
Atlanta, Ga 30319
678-510-2900
Group of Four North Carolina Electric Membership Corporations
Request for Proposals. CLOSED
This RFP is designed to engage Respondents to offer competitive proposals (“Proposals”) such that the EMCs may procure electric capacity, energy, ancillary services, scheduling agent services and other energy services to meet their respective requirements.
Introduction:
A group of four electric membership corporations (“EMCs”) located in North Carolina referred to herein as the “NC4” are collectively seeking proposals for their individual power supply needs. Specifically, the NC4 is comprised of Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation (“Blue Ridge”), Haywood Electric Membership Corporation (“Haywood”), Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation (“Piedmont”) and Rutherford Electric Membership Corporation (“Rutherford”). Collectively, the NC4 EMCs serve 222,136 residential, commercial and industrial meters throughout their respective assigned service territories. Their collective winter peak for 2022 was 1,135MW, and their collective summer peak for 2022 was 695 MWs with annual energy purchases of 3,567 GWhs. The NC4 EMCs provide affordable and reliable electric service to serve their member-owners. On behalf of the NC4, EnerVision, Inc. (“EnerVision”) and Ashby Consulting, LLC (“Ashby Consulting”) are issuing this Request for Proposal (“RFP”) to solicit power supply proposals from market participants (“Respondents”).
The NC4, each an electric distribution cooperative, became members of North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation (“NCEMC”) in 1959 upon its inception. Historically, the NC4 purchased all their requirements for electric capacity and energy from NCEMC pursuant to a long-term wholesale power contract. Effective January 1, 2003, NCEMC adopted Board Policy 340 (the “Member Choice Policy”) to permit its members to elect to serve a portion of their respective retail load requirements with generation or contract resources of their own choice.
Blue Ridge, Piedmont and Rutherford made their respective elections to become Independent Members of NCEMC effective January 1, 2004. Haywood made its election to become an Independent Member of NCEMC effective January 1, 2009.
Under the Member Choice Policy, an “Independent Member” is a member of NCEMC which has elected to assume responsibility for independently arranging for additional power supply resources, over and above its allocated portion of the NCEMC Committed Resources. “NCEMC Committed Resources” are power supply resources, which are owned or are the subject of valid and enforceable contracts between NCEMC and another party as of the effective date of the NCEMC member’s election to become an Independent Member. Each of the NC4 EMCs purchases electric capacity and energy from NCEMC pursuant to a Wholesale Power Supply Agreement (“WPSA”) with a term that extends through December 31, 2046. Under the WPSAs, each of the EMCs are allocated a share of each NCEMC Committed Resource. As NCEMC Committed Resources expire or are terminated, the EMCs assume responsibility for replacing the expired or terminated NCEMC Committed Resource. The only NCEMC Committed Resource remaining under the WPSA of Blue Ridge, Piedmont and Rutherford is their allocation of NCEMC’s interest in the Catawba Nuclear Station. In addition to an allocation of NCEMC’s interest in the Catawba Nuclear Station, Haywood has allocations in other NCEMC Committed Resources. Each of the EMCs has an allocation of electric capacity and energy from the Southeastern Power Administration (“SEPA”).
The assigned service territories of Blue Ridge and Rutherford reside solely within DEC’s balancing authority area. The assigned service territories of Haywood and Piedmont are located partially in the DEC balancing authority area and partially in the DEP balancing authority area. Blue Ridge, Piedmont and Rutherford became partial requirements customers of Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (“DEC”) in 2006. Blue Ridge and Piedmont converted their respective partial requirements service agreements into full requirements agreements with DEC in 2007. Rutherford continues as a partial requirements customer of DEC. Haywood became a full requirements customer of DEC in 2009.
Haywood became a partial requirements customer of Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc., the predecessor to Duke Energy Progress, LLC (“DEP”) in 2009. Piedmont has purchased partial requirements from DEP or its predecessor since 2006. Haywood and Piedmont have each entered into a Network Integration Transmission Service Agreement (“NITSA”) with DEC and DEP. Blue Ridge and Rutherford have each entered into a NITSA with DEC.
Under each of the respective partial requirements contracts, DEC or DEP, as applicable schedules each of the EMCs’ share of their respective allocations of NCEMC Committed Resources and their respective allocations from SEPA, and supplies all incremental capacity, energy and load following needs. Under each of the full requirements contracts, the EMC makes its existing NCEMC Committed Resources and respective SEPA allocation available to DEC. DEC schedules the EMC’s resources and DEC assumes cost responsibility for the EMC’s resources that are made available by way of a credit mechanism defined in the power purchase agreement. These individual requirements contracts expire after December 31, 2031, and are public documents filed at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Pursuant to rate cases pending at the North Carolina Utilities Commission (“NCUC”), DEC and DEP are seeking to change their respective existing retail cost allocation methodologies. The issuance of a non-appealable order by the NCUC changing the retail cost allocation methodology of DEP and/or DEC triggers early termination provisions in each of the requirements contracts, except for Piedmont’s requirements contract with DEP. Each Respondent will be provided detailed information pertaining to the early termination provisions once they have completed the Registration Form and executed and delivered a Mutual Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement.
The NC4 are considering a range of power supply options in the form of requirements, standard industry products, asset-based or unit contingent products, and creative products, such as renewable resources and distributed energy resources (“DER”) that provide economic value and flexibility. The NC4 will also require scheduling agent services and may consider services to comply with the North Carolina renewable energy portfolio standard pursuant to Session Law 2007-397 (Senate Bill 3).
Even though each EMC requires an individual contract(s), collectively the NC4 are aligned with similar goals and interests that are outlined in this RFP and expect that individual contract provisions and characteristics will be substantially similar.
Each of the NC4 EMCs is a borrower from the Rural Utilities Service (“RUS”). Any power purchase agreement entered into with a Respondent will require approval from each of the EMCs Board of Directors and from the RUS.
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Contact Information:
Address all RFP questions, correspondence, NDA, and Proposals to:
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o Ryan Stevenson, Manager
EnerVision, Inc.
4170 Ashford Dunwoody Road,
Atlanta, GA 30319
678-510-2919