In this Request for Proposals (“RFP”), the Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission (SMPDC) is soliciting proposals for consultant services to support the development of the Southern Maine Energy Resilience Plan (Plan), a project funded via a grant award from the US Economic Development Administration’s Disaster Recovery program to SMPDC. This eighteen-month planning process will bring together a stakeholder group of local municipalities, state energy office staff, industrial and commercial businesses, utility providers, and critical service providers to identify energy reliability challenges, identify local and regional resilience measures, and propose areas for cooperation and partnership. The plan will include a comprehensive energy resilience assessment to identify disaster and climate risks to economic assets, infrastructure, businesses, and industrial sectors and will identify actions to reduce those risks, such as vegetation management interventions, pole management agreements, implementation of microgrids, land use ordinance amendments to require undergrounding of power, and other related measures.
