ROSEMEAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Southern California Edison has launched a Request for Offers (RFO) to acquire new distributed energy resources to bolster grid resiliency in the Santa Barbara-Goleta area.
The RFO is seeking a range of new distributed energy resources including: energy storage, demand response, permanent load shift, combined heat and power, fuel cells, solar PV paired with energy storage and renewable distributed generation.
To be considered, resources must connect to a circuit, load or lower-level substation served by the Goleta 220/66-kilovolt substation. In addition, resources must be commercially proven technologies, and project start dates should be no earlier than June 1, 2019, and no later than June 1, 2020.
The RFO instructions provide additional requirements and are available on the RFO website at scegarfo.accionpower.com.
“Unlike other solicitations looking to increase capacity of the overall electric system, this solicitation is specifically designed to help increase resiliency for the Santa Barbara-Goleta area,” said Colin Cushnie, SCE vice president of Energy Procurement & Management.
Projects that meet the RFO requirements can participate in the competitive bidding process, and SCE has scheduled a bidder's conference on March 22 at 10 a.m. (PDT). RFO and conference details can be accessed by registering at scegarfo.accionpower.com.
“We are seeking to provide our customers with increased reliability in the event of transmission outages that could affect this region, and do so with local resources,” said Cushnie.
About Southern California Edison
An Edison International (NYSE:EIX) company, Southern California Edison is one of the nation’s largest electric utilities, serving a population of approximately 15 million via 5 million customer accounts in a 50,000-square-mile service area within Central, Coastal and Southern California.
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