Southern California Edison (SCE) recently submitted an Advice Letter to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) containing the 2011 Participant Instructions and Standard Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) for use in the 2011 Request for Offers (RFO) from Independent Power Producers (IPPs) for the Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Program. SCE will officially launch the RFO after CPUC approval of the Advice Letter. The Advice Letter may be found on SCE's web site at http://www.sce.com/NR/sc3/tm2/pdf/2571-E.pdf.
PV electric generating facilities located on rooftops within SCE's service territory will be eligible for this RFO. Each generating facility must have a gross power rating of no less than 500 kW DC and no greater than 10 MW DC. SCE anticipates limiting the procurement from ground mounted projects to 2.6 MW DC. Please see the RFO Participant Instructions on the SPVP-IPP web page (www.sce.com/spvp-ipp) for details of the proposed RFO process, schedule and criteria.
In order to be eligible to submit an offer, a project must have received a complete System Impact Study or Phase I Interconnection Study, or have passed the WDAT Fast Track screens. SCE will accept offers after the CAISO Cluster 4 Phase I interconnection studies have been completed, or four months after the launch of the RFO, whichever comes later. For more information about interconnection, please visit Open Access Information, which can be accessed on the spvp-ipp web page under "Interconnection via SCE's Wholesale Distribution Access Tariff (WDAT)".
ALL QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS ABOUT THIS RFO MUST BE EMAILED TO SPVP-IPP@SCE.COM WITH A COPY TO THE INDEPENDENT EVALUATOR AT SCEIE@ACCIONGROUP.COM.
