The Orange County Power Authority (“OCPA”) is hereby requesting proposals for long-term, California Renewables Portfolio Standard-eligible (“RPS”) renewable energy supply and/or Supplemental Mid-Term Reliability capacity (as well as other incremental capacity resources).[1] OCPA’s future annual retail energy requirements are expected to approximate 2,000 GWh with peak demand around 500 MW.
In consideration of applicable long-term renewable energy contracting requirements and mid-term reliability procurement mandates, OCPA has certain future open positions for California Renewables Portfolio Standard (“RPS”) eligible energy products and resource adequacy capacity (“RA”). With regard to renewable energy, this RFP is intended to support OCPA’s future Portfolio Content Category 1 (“PCC1” or “Bucket 1”) energy requirements through long-term power purchase agreements with one or more qualified suppliers. With regard to RA capacity, OCPA will consider offers for eligible system RA with online dates occurring no sooner than January 1, 2026 and no later than June 1, 2028 – these dates generally align with successive compliance deadlines that were previously ordered by the CPUC. OCPA has an approximate aggregate capacity need of about 80 megawatts.
[1] Consistent with California Public Utilities Commission Decision 23-02-040, load-serving entities were collectively obligated to procure 4,000 additional megawatts of capacity with initial deliveries/availability occurring in 2026 and 2027. OCPA was assigned capacity obligations totaling 38 MWs in 2026 with an additional 38 MWs required in 2027.
