Does the reference “all sources” in the January 7 announcement mean that operating assets will be allowed to bid in?
No, the eligibility criterion with respect to new facilities has not changed. 26) Can we offer a “staged” facility with the bid offering a Simple Cycle Combustion Turbine with an option for PG&E to upgrade to a Combined Cycle at some later time? The option would be contingent on procuring the necessary permits to construct and operate the Combined Cycle facility. (1-27-05) PG&E will not accept conditional offers. Please see question 3 above in this “Eligibility” section of the Q&A. 27) We are proposing an aggregation of locationally specific dispatchable Distributed Generation resources in response to PG&E’s current Peaking Power RFO. The proposal is to provide to PG&E a total of 25 MWs of dispatchable load reduction and energy export to be supplied by the operation of customer-owned existing standby generation. Would an offer based on this type of technology be considered in conformance with PG&E’s LT RFO Power Purchase standards? (1-27-05) No, according to Section III: Eligibility Re
