The exact amount of the supplier fee will be announced no later than two (2) business days before the Bid Date.

A bidder specifies a “minimum capacity” in kW (AC rating) with its Bid on a Project. The Seller commits to accepting for a Project an award either at the Minimum Capacity specified with the Bid for that Project or at the Project Size. In your example, if the Project is selected at a Minimum Capacity of 1.5 MW, the Proposed Nameplate Capacity of the project under the REC Contract will be 1.5 MW. As stated in Section 5. Energization of the Project, subpart (e) of the REC Contract, “If the Actual Nameplate Capacity upon Energization is different from the Proposed Nameplate Capacity and such Actual Nameplate Capacity is greater than 2,000 kW or outside the greater of: +/-5kW or +/-25% of such Proposed Nameplate Capacity, then an Event of Default shall be deemed to have occurred.”

Please send any questions you have regarding the delivery of bid assurance collateral or the delivery of performance assurance to the Procurement Administrator.  The Procurement Administrator will respond to your questions and contact personnel at the utilities for information on your behalf as appropriate.

The Procurement Administrator expects to notify a bidder that has bids that were evaluated whether any of the bidder’s bid will be identified as “winning bids” to the Commission by 6 PM on the bid date.  Such notification is made earlier to the extent practicable or may be made on the next business day as circumstances warrant.  This notification occurs by telephone with a written confirmation by email.

It is correct that even though a Project may be physically located in the territory of ComEd, if the Project is selected by the evaluation and approved by the Commission, the counterparty to the REC Contract can be Ameren Illinois (and vice-versa).  A bidder must submit bid assurance collateral for the project in the form of cash or of a letter of credit to each of AIC and ComEd (and NOT only to the utility where the Project is located).  To the extent that you are providing bid assurance collateral in the form of cash, then you are also required to provide the Cash Insert for each Company (#P2-1 and #P2-2) and the draft request for the return of cash to each Company.

The Part 2 Proposal consists of the completed online Part 2 Form, the submission of bid assurance collateral, the submission of any other document required by the online Part 2 Form, and the bids. Only the bids are submitted on the Bid Date of December 13, 2019.  All other portions of the Part 2 Proposal, including the bid assurance collateral, must be received by 12 PM (noon) on the Part 2 Date, which is Wednesday, December 4, 2019.  Please see Paragraph VI.1.18 of the RFP Rules.

The evaluation procedure will not select Projects which combine to deliver in excess of 50,000 RECs. If a Project has an expected output of 50,000 RECs (using the standard capacity factor or the capacity factor provided in the proposal) and if the Project is selected by the evaluation and approved by the Commission, then under the terms of the REC Contract, there cannot be payment for more than 50,000 RECs annually.  Payment could be for less than 50,000 RECs annually for a variety of reasons, including the fact that only RECs that are delivered and attributable to subscribed shares of the Project are eligible for payment.

A seller that fails to pay the supplier fee and/or post performance assurance faces forfeiture of the bid assurance collateral.  Furthermore, under the REC Contract, not constructing the project on a timely basis or not delivering RECs are Events of Default subject to termination provisions, which entitle the Buyer as the Non-Defaulting Party to the remedies set forth under the REC Contract.

A Company may draw upon the letter of credit or a Company may draw upon a cash deposit if: (i) the Bidder or a Seller has disclosed information relating to the Proposal for a Project publicly or to any other party before the Illinois Commerce Commission has rendered its decision on the results of the procurement event; or (ii) the Bidder or a Seller has made a material omission or misrepresentation in the Part 1 Proposal or the Part 2 Proposal for a Project submitted in connection with the procurement event; or (iii) a Seller has failed to execute the applicable supplier contract for a Project within three (3) business days of being notified that the Illinois Commerce Commission has approved the Bid on that Project or has failed to meet the creditworthiness requirements of the applicable supplier contract within thirty (30) business days of such Illinois Commerce Commission decision; or (iv) the Bidder or a Seller has failed to pay to the Illinois Power Agency the Supplier Fee for a Project within seven (7) business days of being notified that the Illinois Commerce Commission has approved the Bid on that Project.

The amount of bid assurance collateral required for the Projects presented by a Bidder is determined separately for each Project and each Company as detailed below:

• The amount of bid assurance collateral required for AIC is $10,000 per Project.
• The amount of bid assurance collateral required for ComEd is $20,000 per Project.

Each co-located Project counts as a separate “Project” for purposes of calculating the amount of bid assurance  collateral.

Co-located projects should be submitted as separate proposals.

If a bidder submits a Part 1 Proposal, including payment of the bid participation fee, and then the bidder does not submit a bid for the Project, the bid participation fee will not be refunded.  If the bidder had submitted bid assurance collateral for the project with the Part 2 Proposal, then the bid assurance collateral would be returned to the bidder after the Commission decision on the results of the procurement event.

If a Bidder does not have projects that are selected by the evaluation and for which bids are approved by the Commission, the bid assurance collateral will be returned after the Commission decision on the procurement event (December 2019). If the Bidder has projects that are selected by the evaluation for which bids are approved by the Commission, the bid assurance collateral will be returned once the Bidder executes the REC Contracts, pays the supplier fees, and posts any required Collateral Requirement under the terms of the REC Contracts (by February 2020).

The bid assurance collateral is required with the Part 2 Proposal in the form of cash of a letter of credit.  Bid assurance collateral is posted separately for ComEd and AIC.  The amount required for AIC is $10,000 per project and the amount required by ComEd is $20,000 per project.

The Collateral Requirement is posted upon contract execution in an amount of 1/15th of Maximum Contract Value under the applicable supplier contract(s) and remains in place throughout the term of the contract. Under the REC Contract, a Seller can request an extension as described in 5. Energization of the Project.  However, if the Project is not built, the Collateral Requirement will be forfeited.

Each participant is required to pay a non‐refundable bid participation fee of $500 as a condition of completing the Part 1 Proposal to the extent that such participant has not already paid a bid participation fee pursuant to its participation in a 2019 procurement event. A Bidder that submits proposals for multiple Projects is only required to pay a single bid participation fee.

There is no waitlist under the Non-Solar Community Renewables RFP.

The final RFP Rules and documents, including the proposal requirements, will be posted by Tuesday, October 22, 2019. At this time we anticipate that it will NOT be required that all non-ministerial permits would be obtained prior to submission of the Part 1 Proposal. More information regarding how this deadline will be extended will be made available as soon as practicable.

No, each project must have a separate interconnection agreement and point.

Co-located projects summing to more than 2 MW of Community projects may be permissibly located in 2 ways:

• Two projects (of up to 2 MW each) on one parcel; or
• One project (of up to 2 MW) on each of two contiguous parcels.

The two contiguous parcels may not have been divided within the 2 years prior to the Bid Date. Each Project must have separate interconnection points. Please refer to Section 7.3.1 of the Long-Term Renewable Resources Procurement Plan for additional information regarding the co-location standard.

The Procurement Administrator posted the presentation materials and the audio recording from the bidder information webcast held on July 31, 2019 to the Draft Documents page of the Community Renewable Generation Program section of the procurement website.

The target will be provided at a later date when it becomes available. At this time, it is expected to be provided with the RFP Rules currently scheduled to be posted on October 22, 2019.

No. That would be inconsistent with the definition of a community renewable generation project in Section 1-10 of the Illinois Power Agency Act:

“Community renewable generation project” means an electric generating facility that:

[items (1) – (3) omitted]

(4) is limited in nameplate capacity to less than or equal to 2,000 kilowatts.

The co-location standards that will apply to the Community Renewable Generation Program will mirror the standards under the Adjustable Block Program. Therefore, a community renewable generation project that is not solar is not impacted by other renewable generation projects of different technology type, or of the same technology type that are not participating in the Community Renewable Generation Program, at the same location.

The contract and RFP documents under this program are not yet available and the requirements for participation have not been finalized.  The IPA is currently assessing appropriate project maturity requirements specific to this procurement. Any such requirements will seek to account for development timelines external to the procurement itself.

The Community Renewable Generation Program Forward Procurement will be held later in 2019 as planned under the Long-Term Plan approved on April 3, 2018.   More information is expected to be posted in the coming months, and an announcement will be sent to all registrants at that time.

The Community Renewable Generation Program Forward Procurement will be held in 2019.   Please note that the Community Renewable Generation Program is a program for projects that are not solar (while the Solar for All Program, https://www.illinoissfa.com/, is specifically for solar projects).  More information will be available soon.  The schedule will be posted to the Calendar page of the procurement website and an announcement will be sent to all registrants at that time.

Information pertaining to this procurement will be posted to the dedicated Community Renewable Generation Program Forward Procurement page of the procurement website as soon as it becomes available. At this time, please refer to Section 5.8.4 of the Long-Term Plan for additional information.