Any questions related to IPA’s competitive procurements should be submitted to the Procurement Administrator by going to the Ask a Question page or emailing the Procurement Administrator at Illinois-RFP@nera.com.

The Final 2022 Long-Term Renewable Resources Procurement Plan was released in August 2022 (see IPA website here) and covers the IPA’s renewable energy resources procurement and programmatic activities for 2022 and 2023. The IPA will next update the Long-Term Plan starting in 2023 for approval in 2024 to cover activities for 2024 and 2025.

Please contact the Illinois Power Agency directly for questions related to FOIA requests.

Please see the following link for a list of Approved Vendors under the IPA Adjustable Block Program: http://illinoisabp.com/find-a-vendor/

The address for the Illinois Power Agency has changed and is now:

Illinois Power Agency
105 W Madison Street, Suite 1401
Chicago, Illinois 60602

The purpose of this website is to provide information to suppliers participating in the IPA’s procurement event.  We do not have a list of preferred brokers. The Illinois Solar Energy Association has information for homeowners generally: http://www.illinoissolar.org/Procurement

To receive updates and information regarding the RFPs, please use our automated form to register to our mailing list here:

https://www.ipa-energyrfp.com/contact-us/register/

Please contact the Procurement Administrator if you will not be able to meet a deadline because of special and extraordinary circumstances.

Yes, questions received during the bidder information webcast and responses provided are posted to the FAQ page of the IPA procurement website under the appropriate section for the RFP.

Yes, for each procurement event for which a bidder information webcast is held, the presentation and audio recording are posted to the Final Materials page of the applicable section of the website.

The Procurement Administrator responds to questions directly to the questioner. The question and answer are then posted to the FAQs page of the procurement website so that all interested parties have access to the same information. Aspects of the question and/or answer that might identify the questioner are removed before posting, to the extent practicable.

All publicly available information regarding the Illinois Power Agency Workshops can be found on the Renewable Resources tab of the IPA’s website:
https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/ipa/Pages/RenewableResourcesWorkshops.aspx

Revised 7/25/2019 first posted 6/25/2017

You can access the procurement website at: https://www.ipa-energyrfp.com/.  You can access the IPA website at: https://www.illinois.gov/sites/ipa/Pages/default.aspx.

If you wish to speak to the Procurement Administrator, please send us an email with the topic of your question and your phone number. The appropriate individual from the Procurement Administrator will give you a call at the number you provided.

This website is for the IPA’s procurement events of electric supply and renewable energy products.  The “ask a question” form is expected to be used by suppliers that are looking for information relevant to their participation in these procurement events. While we respond to all stakeholders that submit questions, we do not respond to general questions or provide general information that is not specific to the IPA’s procurement events.

Up to procurement events from 2012, links to the RFPs are provided in two columns, one for ComEd and one for Ameren Illinois, at this link:

https://www.ipa-energyrfp.com/previous-rfps/

For the procurement events from 2014 onward, links to the RFPs are provided for all participating utilities at the top of this page:

https://www.ipa-energyrfp.com/previous-rfps/

For instance, the information related to the 2015 energy and capacity procurements are here:

https://www.ipa-energyrfp.com/2015-standard-products-section/

Results are posted to the top of each archived RFP page here:
https://www.ipa-energyrfp.com/previous-rfps/

Results are also posted to the Illinois Commerce Commission website here:
https://www.icc.illinois.gov/electricity/workshops/