LSE Commercial Interest Opt-in
Selection Criteria
California Choice Energy Authority (“CalChoice”), on behalf of its eight member CCAs (as further described below), will evaluate responses against a common set of criteria that will include various factors. A non-exhaustive list of factors to be considered during CalChoice’s evaluative process is included below. This list may be revised at CalChoice’s sole discretion.
- Price and relative value within CalChoice’s supply portfolio
- Project development status, including but not limited to progress toward interconnection, deliverability, siting, zoning, permitting, and financing requirements/plan
- Potential impacts to grid reliability
- Qualifications, experience, financial stability, and structure of the prospective project team (including its ownership)
- Environmental impacts and related mitigation requirements, including impacts to air pollution within communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the existing generating fleet
- Potential economic benefits created within communities with high levels of poverty and unemployment
- Acceptance of the CalChoice’s contract terms
- Workforce benefits, including projected hires (number and type of jobs), duration of work (during construction and operation phases)
- To the extent that the proposed generating facility is expected to replace/supplant an existing generating facility, the respondent should quantify the associated emission impacts of this transition
- Project location and local benefits
CalChoice Member CCAs
- City of Lancaster d/b/a Lancaster Energy
- Town of Apple Valley d/b/a Apple Valley Choice Energy
- City of Rancho Mirage d/b/a Rancho Mirage Energy Authority
- City of Pico Rivera d/b/a Pico Rivera Innovative Municipal Energy
- City of San Jacinto d/b/a San Jacinto Power
- City of Pomona d/b/a Pomona Choice Energy
- City of Santa Barbara d/b/a Santa Barbara Clean Energy
- City of Palmdale d/b/a Energy for Palmdale’s Independent Choice
For inquiries regarding the CalChoice member CCAs allocation of commercial interest points, please contact Kevin Tonoian at Kevin@calchoice.org