2025 RFP – Long-Term Renewable and Low/No Emissions Energy & Capacity

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.

Solicitation materials are linked below and responses to questions will be posted no later than May 8, 2025.

Determining factors for program implementation include:

• Overall quality of response, inclusive of completeness, timeliness, and conformity;
• Price and relative value within CEA’s supply portfolio, inclusive of potential curtailment risk;
• Project location and local benefits;
• Project development status, including but not limited to progress toward interconnection, deliverability, siting, zoning, permitting, and financing requirements/plan;
• Qualifications, experience, financial stability, and structure of the prospective project team (including its ownership);
• Environmental impacts and related mitigation requirements, including fire risk and fire safety precautions and impacts to air pollution within communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the existing generating fleet;
• Potential impacts to grid reliability;
• Potential economic benefits created within communities with high levels of poverty and unemployment;
• Acceptance of CEA’s term sheet;
• Workforce benefits, including projected hires (number and type of jobs), duration of work (during construction and operation phases); and
• To the extent that the proposed generating facility is expected to replace/supplant or augment an existing generating facility, the respondent should quantify the associated emission impacts of this transition.

Key dates for this solicitation are:

• Deadline for electronic question submittal via email: May 1, 2025
• CEA posts responses to questions: May 8, 2025
• RFP response deadline: May 30, 2025

We encourage interested parties to read the RFP Information and Instructions, and submit their submission to Procurement@TheCleanEnergyAlliance.org.

2025 RFP – Behind-the-Meter Distributed Energy Program – Commercial

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.

Solicitation materials are linked below and responses to questions will be provided via email no later than April 7, 2025, 5 p.m. PST.

Determining factors for program implementation include:

• Best value
• Relevant experience and qualifications of the firm
• Schedule
• Overall response to the RFP
• Demonstrated ability to meet project goals

Key dates for this solicitation are:

• Deadline for electronic question submittal via email: March 27, 2025, 5:00 p.m. PST
• CEA posts responses to questions via email: April 7, 2025
• RFP response deadline: April 14, 2025, 5:00 p.m. PST

We encourage interested parties to read the RFP Information and Instructions, and submit their submission to Programs@TheCleanEnergyAlliance.org.

2025 RFP – Lobbying Support Services RFP

Through this RFP, 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.

Solicitation materials are linked below and responses to questions will be provided via email no later than March 24, 2025.

Determining factors for program implementation include:

• Best value
• Relevant experience and qualifications
• Reasonableness of budget and schedule
• Overall approach and response to the RFP

Key dates for this solicitation are:

• Deadline for electronic question submittal via email: March 13, 2025, 5:00 p.m. PST
• CEA posts responses to questions via email: March 24, 2025
• RFP response deadline: April 1, 2025, 5:00 p.m. PST

We encourage interested parties to read the RFP Information and Instructions, and submit their submission to RFPResponse@TheCleanEnergyAlliance.org.

RFQ – Local Project Developer Qualifications and Readiness

CEA is seeking RFQ responses from qualified businesses or firms interested in proposing and developing 1 to 20MW solar photovoltaic and/or battery energy storage systems in or near CEA’s service area under future solicitations or to contract directly with site owners and/or CEA’s customers. Responsive contractors under this RFQ may be listed on CEA’s website or their contact information may be given to site owners and customers. We encourage interested parties to read the RFQ Information and Instructions, and submit through the RFQ response form to procurement@thecleanenergyalliance.org:

Open Offers

In addition to specific solicitations, CEA welcomes submitted offers year-round through our Open Offers Form – further information on our Open Offers process can be found further below on this webpage.

Local Solar is Clean Energy Alliance’s (CEA) feed-in tariff (FIT) program for smaller-scale renewable energy projects. Energy produced by the sites would be sold to CEA and sent to the grid for community use.

To participate, interested organizations must apply through the process outlined on our Local Solar webpage; in the initial phase of this program, CEA will approve a maximum of four projects totaling up to 2MW of solar generating capacity.

Clean Energy Alliance works with a variety of service vendors and partners to accomplish our clean energy goals. CEA has adopted an Inclusive and Sustainable Workforce Policy and reports on Supplier Diversity to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) annually. We encourage all vendors interested in working with CEA to get certified through the CPUC Supplier Diversity program. Visit our Supplier Diversity page to learn more.

Pursuant to Prop 209, CEA does not give preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin.

If prospective vendors would like to be notified when Clean Energy Alliance (CEA) posts new Requests for Quotes (RFQ), please subscribe to our interest list.

Please be sure to provide your service category on the form e.g. Energy Supply, Resource Adequacy, Technical Consultant, Renewable Energy Development, Energy Efficiency Programs, Distributed Energy Programs, Other.

​In addition to time-limited solicitations, CEA welcomes submitted offers year-round that will help CEA meet its procurement objectives and regulatory obligations – this may include long- and short-term proposals offering California Renewables Portfolio Standard‐eligible (“RPS”) renewable energy supply, carbon-free energy (“CFE”), resource adequacy capacity (“RA”), and/or Supplemental Mid‐Term Reliability capacity (“MTR”).

While CEA cannot commit to respond to every offer received, submissions reviewed will be evaluated based on CEA’s Bid Evaluation Criteria Policy, taking into account each project’s commercial readiness and development status, developer experience, project fit within CEA’s supply portfolio, and price/value. CEA is currently prioritizing review of projects offering local San Diego / Imperial Valley RA, projects local to CEA’s service area, wind/geothermal resources, and projects with nearer-term CODs (e.g., pre-2028).

​Clean Energy Alliance (CEA) encourages interested parties to submit proposals for programs and projects that contain novel, innovative or otherwise meritorious concepts, approaches or methods. Please review the Clean Energy Alliance Unsolicited Proposals Policy for criteria and procedures related to submitting an unsolicited proposal.