Past Solicitations
Request for Qualifications/Proposals/Information (RFQ/RFP/RFI)
Response Deadline: May 30, 2025
Through this RFP, CEA is seeking proposals for long-term, California Renewable Portfolio Standard-eligible (“RPS”) non-solar renewable energy and low/no emissions supply and/or capacity from projects interconnected within the California Independent System Operator (“CAISO”) balancing authority. CEA supplies annual retail energy requirements approximating 2,450GWh with a peak demand of approximately 500MW. CEA is not interested in solar generation offers or standalone storage offers under this solicitation, but welcomes offers for wind (including repowers), geothermal, carbon capture, and biogas/biomass projects.
| Application Link | Contact | Additional Attachments |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 RFP – Long-Term Renewable and Low/No Emissions Energy & Capacity | Procurement@thecleanenergyalliance.org | Attachment 1: Response Form Attachment 2: RFP Term Sheet |
Response Deadline: April 14, 2025
Through this RFP, CEA is seeking proposals for qualified organizations and business entities to implement programmatic deployment of a safe and affordable Commercial Solar Generation and Battery Storage program, including battery only systems in CEA’s Service Territory. The goal is to increase local resiliency and reliability, provide local clean energy generation, enhance CEA’s peak load management strategies, support CEA’s decarbonization strategies, and support statewide efforts to improve overall grid health.
Response Deadline: April 1, 2025
Clean Energy Alliance (“CEA”) is seeking proposals for qualified organizations and business entities to provide lobbying services with a background in energy policy and regulation to monitor and assist CEA with applicable legislative and regulatory proceedings. The goal is to keep CEA informed on pertinent legislative and regulatory matters to assist CEA in building relationships with state elected and appointed officials advancing CEA’s legislative and regulatory priorities as outlined in CEA’s Legislative and Regulatory Policy Platform, and to provide support for political communication and coalition.
| Application Link | Contact | Additional Attachments |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 RFP – Lobbying Support Services | RFPResponse@thecleanenergyalliance.org |
Response Deadline: March 6, 2025
Clean Energy Alliance (“CEA”) is seeking proposals for qualified organizations and business entities to provide Professional Services for an Energy Portfolio Management and Valuation Platform (the “Platform”) for CEA. CEA is planning to deploy this Platform to help CEA procure power supply and manage its power portfolio, as well as support for financial and budget processes. CEA expects the Platform to be a softwareas-as-service (“SAAS”) offering which CEA staff can be trained on and eventually operate directly. The range of functions may include position tracking and management, short- and long-term deal valuation, reporting, risk analysis including counterparty risk management, budget integration, and deal capture / trade entry. The Platform should be able to handle the full range of power products including, but not limited to, Power Purchase Agreements, Energy Storage Service Agreements, Resource Adequacy Agreements, Renewable Portfolio Standard Attribute Agreements, and hedging contracts under an Edison Electric Institute or Western Systems Power Pool (WSPP) master agreement including Inter-Scheduling Coordinator Trades.
| Application Link | Contact | Additional Attachments |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 RFP – Energy Portfolio Management and Valuation Services Platform | RFPResponse@thecleanenergyalliance.org | Attachment 1: Response to Questions |
Response Deadline: January 17, 2025
Through this RFP, CEA is seeking proposals for qualified organizations and business entities to implement programmatic deployment of a safe and affordable Commercial Solar Generation and Battery Storage program, including battery only systems in CEA’s Service Territory. The goal is to increase local resiliency and reliability, provide local clean energy generation, enhance CEA’s peak load management strategies, support CEA’s decarbonization strategies, and support statewide efforts to improve overall grid health.
| Application Link | Contact | Additional Attachments |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 RFP – Behind the Meter Residential Distributed Energy Program | Programs@thecleanenergyalliance.org | Attachment 1: Addendum #1 language for PSAAttachment 2: Responses to Questions |
Response Deadline: October 25, 2024
Clean Energy Alliance (“CEA”) is hereby requesting proposals for long-term, California Renewables Portfolio Standard-eligible (“RPS”) renewable energy supply and/or capacity from projects in the California Independent System Operator (“CAISO”) Interconnection Process in Queue Cluster 14 (“QC14”) or Queue Cluster 15 (“QC15”). CEA supplies annual retail energy requirements approximating 2,400 GWh with a peak demand of approximately 500 MW.
| Application Link | Contact | Additional Attachments |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 RFP – Long-Term RPS-Eligible Renewable Energy & Capacity | Programs@thecleanenergyalliance.org | Attachment 1: RFP Response Form |
Response Deadline: February 21, 2024
California Choice Energy Authority (“CalChoice”), in conjunction with Clean Energy Alliance (“CEA”), 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). For purposes of this Request for Proposals (“RFP”) process, these organizations are collectively referred to as the “SoCal CCAs.” In aggregate, the SoCal CCAs supply annual retail energy requirements approximating 5,000 GWh with a peak demand approaching 1,500 MW.
| Application Link | Contact | Additional Attachments |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 Joint RFP – Long‐Term RPS‐Eligible Renewable Energy & Mid‐Term Reliability Capacity | Programs@thecleanenergyalliance.org | Attachment 1: RFP Offer Form |
Response Deadline: April 12, 2023
The Clean Energy Alliance (CEA) and San Diego Community Power (SDCP) (the CCAs) are seeking responses to this Request for Proposals (RFP) from qualified firms to provide professional services, filling the duties of a community choice aggregation (CCA) energy regulatory legal consultant. The CCAs will ultimately contract separately with selected firm(s) from this solicitation, however the scope of services is similar or even directly overlapping for each CCA and requires collaboration. The CCAs are seeking opportunities for efficiencies or cost savings when a joint effort is applicable and also separate contracts in order to engage autonomously on regulatory items as needed.
| Application Link | Contact | Additional Attachments |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 Joint RFP – Professional Services from Qualified Firms for Regulatory Legal Counsel Services | CEO@thecleanenergyalliance.org |
Response Deadline: October 1, 2021
Clean Energy Alliance (“CEA”) is seeking proposals for qualified organizations and business entities to implement programmatic deployment of safe and affordable battery energy storage systems (BESS) to CEA customers. The goal is to increase local resiliency and reliability, protect vulnerable customers and critical facilities, enhance CEA’s peak load management strategies, support CEA’s decarbonization strategies, and support statewide efforts to improve overall grid health. In partnership with the program implementer(s) selected through this solicitation, CEA intends to offer innovative, valuable, and affordable energy storage programming options that offer significant incentives to priority market segments and enhanced resiliency and reliability to eligible customers, while also providing meaningful new opportunities for procurement cost savings and enhanced risk management capabilities through strategic load-shaping and active peak load management strategies.
| Application Link | Contact | Additional Attachments |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 RFP – Behind the Meter Distributed Energy Program | Programs@thecleanenergyalliance.org |