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Distributed Resource Adequacy Capacity

Four Northern California community choice aggregators are jointly seeking 32.7 MW of distributed battery and solar capacity across residential and commercial sites to address power outage resilience from PG&E's Public Safety Power Shutoff events, with deployment phased through September 2021. Bidders propose integrated systems—standalone battery storage, solar-plus-storage, or retrofits to existing PV—all capable of islanding to serve as backup power; minimum capacity must land on residential sites in vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. Each LSE (EBCE, PCE, SVCE, SVP) will contract separately, allowing vendors to bid to multiple territories.

East Bay Community Energy, Peninsula Clean Energy, Silicon Valley Power, Silicon Valley Clean Energy CA

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Joint RFP issued by East Bay Community Energy (EBCE), Peninsula Clean Energy (PCE), Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE), and Silicon Valley Power (SVP) seeking proposals from qualified developers or vendors to provide Resource Adequacy (RA) capacity and resilience through customer-sited Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). The solicitation aims to procure a minimum of 10 MW of RA capacity each for EBCE, PCE, and SVCE, and 2.7 MW for SVP (total approximately 32.7 MW) through development of battery energy storage systems, solar photovoltaic systems, or combined systems. The program seeks to address power outage resilience issues caused by Pacific Gas and Electric Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) and increase community resilience. Eligible DER system types include: new battery energy storage (BES) systems, new combined solar PV + BES systems, BES retrofits on existing PV systems, and existing BES systems. All systems must be able to island from the grid to provide resilience. Proposals must include comprehensive offering for RA capacity deployment with minimum capacity sited on residential sites and remaining on commercial or residential sites. Deployment targets include portion by September 2020, with remainder targeted for June 2021 or September 2021. Each LSE will select and contract with winning Proposer(s) separately, though Proposers may submit to multiple LSEs. The solicitation emphasizes serving vulnerable communities, including disadvantaged communities (DACs), low-income communities, medical baseline customers, and CARE/FERA customers. Proposers must describe: technical specifications for DER systems, financial models and pricing, go-to-market and customer engagement strategies, workforce development plans, safety and fire prevention measures, equipment certifications and standards compliance, deployment timelines with key milestones, and approach to reaching target customer categories.

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